I need to buy this book... an excellent, if slim, collection of fairly easy and extremely useful DIY projects. ( )

In this book, arranged by the frequency with which you would undertake the projects (daily, weekly, monthly, seasonally), there is all manner of fun to be had while circumventing capitalism and/or saving the planet and/or preparing for the inevitable zombie apocalypse (however you want to look at it). There’s the expected: brewing alcoholic beverages, making laundry soap, fermenting pickles, growing tasty food; and there’s the unexpected: like the homemade indoor composting toilet (I shit you not).

Incidentally, of all the books I’ve read that cover the topic or are specific to the topic of raising chickens, this one has by far the most in-depth instructions for slaughtering and butchering chickens that I have ever come across. ( )

Everything from making oil lamps and household cleaners to making soap from lye and slaughtering chickens. Sorted usefully into how often these things need to be done, which means the more complicated projects fall to the end of the book. ( )

A basic do it yourself how-to, just like a century ago.

Not different enough from The Urban Homestead to be a really valuable book. ( )