In this practical and comprehensive, self-reliance guide, you will learn the fundamental and advanced skills on how to stretch your resources anywhere and at anytime. Mary Beth Gump brings you through living skills lost through the ages and advances in green technology, with: Unusual, rare, wholesome and fast food recipes. Frugal fun, crafts and activities for the whole family. Growing your food anywhere, organically, even in the city. Backwoods medicines, medicinal plants and how to prepare them. Saving money and stretching your mind on how to use what you already have. Obtaining land and what to look for. Home industries that pay the bills. Wholesome living skills. Foraging for food, health, and frugality. Making farm machines that really work. Making green energy from scratch. And much more If you are just getting started, or even thinking about taking the plunge into self-sufficiency, you need this book. This is your total guide to frugal self-reliance, volume by volume, with a down home appeal."