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Yeast bread, safe canning, frost dates, mending, knife sharpening, knots, shutoff valves and a safe campfire. Each topic has its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 72 illustrated pages.
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Every page has a big drawing and a box with the temperatures, steps and safety rules you need to know:
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 9 parts and 67 topics.
It's late August. The counter is covered in green beans, your mother's canning pot is on the stove, and you stop: is a water bath enough for these, or not?
You look it up. The guide answers in long paragraphs about acidity, spores and processing temperatures, and three websites tell you three different things. The rule is in there, buried in words.
In the book, that same question is one page, split in two. Fruit, jam, pickles and tomatoes with lemon juice added: water bath. Green beans, corn and meat are low-acid: pressure canner, at the pressure set for your altitude. One side, one method. No guessing.
Bread done at 190–200°F inside, the last frost date, a knife on the stone at 15–20°, the main water shutoff, a campfire that catches: each one has its own page too.
You look at the page, pick the method and start the batch with the book open on the counter, not a browser full of tabs.
Before you start, bread and dairy, preserving the harvest, garden and yard, needle and thread, tools and knots, fixing things around the house, fire and water, and review: 72 pages, all illustrated.
Think of it this way:
A storm knocks the power out and water starts creeping across the basement floor. You need the main water shutoff now, and you need to know which way it turns.
You open the book to Know Your Shutoffs and it's all drawn: main water, fixture valves, main breaker and gas meter, each with an arrow showing the way it closes.
Same with sourdough starter, pressure canning, patching jeans, the trucker's hitch and making water safe to drink: each one on its own page.
Self-Reliance Skills Illustrated is 9 parts and 67 topics, all drawn, ending with the red safety boxes on one page, the most common mistakes and a year of skills to plan.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
How to read a skill card, the starter tool kit, kitchen measures and how to find your altitude and hardiness zone.
Yeast bread, kneading and the windowpane test, sourdough starter, biscuits and cornbread, butter, yogurt, farmer's cheese, lard and the food danger zone.
High-acid vs. low-acid, jars and headspace, water bath and pressure canning, tomatoes, seals, old methods to skip, pickles, jam, sauerkraut, freezing, drying and cool storage.
Planting by frost date, starting seeds, raised beds, compost, watering, saving seeds and caring for garden tools.
Threading and the running stitch, buttons that stay, hemming by hand, patching jeans, darning socks, split seams and stuck zippers.
Sharpening a knife and an ax, five knots, the trucker's hitch, splitting firewood, handsaw and drill, wood joints and caring for handles and boards.
Your shutoffs, a leaky faucet, a running toilet, drains without chemicals, drywall patches, breakers and GFCIs, squeaks and loose screws.
The fire triangle and three woods, a safe campfire, the PASS extinguisher steps, safe drinking water, water storage, generators and carbon monoxide, food during an outage and cold-process lye soap.
All the red safety boxes on one page, common mistakes by chapter, a pantry and tool checklist, teaching kids and grandkids, and your year of skills.
At the end of the book: All the red safety boxes on one page, common mistakes by chapter, a pantry and tool checklist and a year-of-skills plan.
Turns reading into doing: 30 short weekend projects, each with a materials list and a checklist, so you try every skill at least once.
The most common mistakes that ruin a loaf, a batch of pickles or a patch, plus one printable card per chapter to tape inside a cabinet door.
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Every card opens with what you need and goes step by step, so your first loaf or your first patch has a clear order to follow.
The high-acid vs. low-acid page and the red safety boxes let you check your family recipes against current USDA home canning guidance.
Print a card, sit down with the kids or grandkids and do it together: bread, a button, a knot, a safe campfire.
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Yes. Every card starts with what you need and walks through numbered, drawn steps, with the common mistake and the safety rule at the end. Nothing assumes you already know.
Canning steps follow the USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning (2015 rev.) and the National Center for Home Food Preservation; food temperatures follow USDA FSIS; drinking water and carbon monoxide follow CDC guidance; planting follows the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map.
No. It's an independent illustrated book. It is not published, reviewed or endorsed by the USDA, the CDC or any other agency.
No. It's learning material. It doesn't replace a hands-on class, a licensed plumber or electrician, your gas company or medical advice. If you smell gas, leave the house and call the gas company.
Current. Canning follows the USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning (2015 rev.). One page shows the old methods to skip, like open-kettle and oven canning, and why. The 30 weekend projects were written for this book, not for any course.
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It's a PDF, not a printed book: nothing is mailed. It's made to print at home or at a print shop, so you can keep the cards in a binder or tape one inside a cabinet door.
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High-acid or low-acid: you see it drawn and that's it.
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