Backyard Renaissance

There's nothing better than homemade jam, but every home canner knows your jelly would just be syrup without pectin. Commercial pectins are filled with dextrose and require massive amounts of sugar to set, but you can make your own fruit pectin with this detailed guidebook. Self-sufficiency expert Caleb Warnock provides easy-to-follow instructions for making your own fruit pectin to use in jams and jellies with no unwanted fillers. Making natural pectin has never been easier!

This practical guide to natural foods makes it easy to eat mindfully-with more than 250 simple recipes full of nutrients and free of processed ingredients. With his Backyard Renaissance Collection of how-to guides, Caleb Warnock has been helping people rediscover the simple pleasures of self-reliance. In 15-Minute Mindful Meals, Warnock demonstrates that eating natural foods and home-grown produce can be as simple as it is satisfying. Along with hundreds of quick, healthy recipes for breakfasts, lunches, and dinners-as well as snacks and desserts-Warnock offers easy-to-follow tips on maintaining a balanced and mindful diet. This volume also includes a handy guide to nutrients found in vegetables, fruits, berries, and herbs.

The self-sufficiency expert and backyard gardening author presents a comprehensive guide to growing bountiful harvests without bountiful land. With his Backyard Renaissance Collection of how-to guides, Caleb Warnock has been helping people rediscover the simple pleasures of self-reliance. In Tiny Garden, Huge Harvest, Warnock demonstrates how a small garden plot or container garden can produce huge volumes of fresh food. The secret to a productive garden is using the right varieties of heirloom vegetables. From choosing the right seeds to maximizing your crops, Warnock provides step-by-step directions for designing, planting, and harvesting a tiny garden for big harvests that can really feed your family.

The author of Forgotten Skills of Self-Sufficiency shares the secrets to maintaining an abundant garden in the Rocky Mountain West. Gardening in Utah is unlike gardening anywhere else. Lack of summer rain, daytime heat, and insect infestation are just a few of the challenges we often face in the high desert climate. But Caleb Warnock offers simple solutions to these and many other issues in this accessible guide written specifically for gardening in the Beehive State. Using his decades of self-sufficiency experience, Caleb makes Utah gardening easy enough for anyone to have a successful harvest. In this volume he covers: • How to solve your garden problems once and for all • How to have a low-water garden in one of the driest climates in the US • How to easily keep your garden 95% weed-free!

Caleb Warnock, the author of the bestselling Backyard Renaissance Series, provides the most understandable and important look at the health benefits of water kefir to date. Using his decades of self-sufficiency experience, Caleb makes making kefir simple and easy enough for anyone to have success brewing their own water kefir. Includes: • The history of water kefir • Health benefits • Simple step-by-step instructions • Recipes • Frequently asked questions

The author of Forgotten Skills of Self-Sufficiency offers a step-by-step guide to making delicious, all-natural cheese from scratch. With his Backyard Renaissance Collection of how-to guides, Caleb Warnock has been helping people rediscover the simple pleasures of self-reliance. In Make Your Own Cheese, Warnock shares expert tips and simple cheese making techniques for a healthier, lower-cost alternative to store-bought, processed cheese. Warnock teaches readers how to make twelve varieties of cheese using techniques for both the beginning cheese chef and those interested in self-reliant recipes. Featured cheese varieties include mild, medium and sharp cheddar; cottage cheese; cream cheese; queso fresco; and more!

Planting your own garden can cut down your grocery bill, but few people have the time to cultivate a big harvest every year. Self-sufficiency expert Caleb Warnock shares his expertise in creating a permaculture food forest: a garden that you plant once and then leave in the hands of Mother Nature for years to come. Best of all, this natural, sustainable, and low-maintanance garden can succeed in any climate, and Growing a Permaculture Food Forest can show you how. This compact guidebook includes: • Lists of the best flowers & herbs for food forests • Wild edibles for food forests • What NOT to plant • Sustainable harvesting, and • So much more! Seasonal planting and constant weeding are things of the past! With a permaculture food forest, you can feed your family with homegrown vegetables without all the fuss.