Making the Best of Basics

Name: Making the Best of Basics
ISBN: 9781882723256

Family Preparedness Handbook

by James Talmage Stevens

Why it's on the shelf

A long-running guide to building and using a home food storage program. Strong on what to store and how to rotate it.

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Sandor Ellix Katz, Alejandro Pareja Rodríguez

Sandor Katz's deep reference on fermentation traditions worldwide. For when Wild Fermentation leaves you wanting more.

Ball Corporation

The long-running home canning guide from Ball, with tested recipes and processing times. Inexpensive and widely trusted.

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Hundreds of tested recipes for canning, pickling, and preserving. The bigger companion to the Ball Blue Book.

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Step-by-step butchering of beef, pork, lamb, poultry, rabbit, and venison.