The first-time homesteader : a complete beginner's guide to starting and loving your new homestead : raising chickens, animal husbandry, growing a garden, home dairy production, beekeeping, resourceful living, homestead kitchen skills
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The first-time homesteader : a complete beginner's guide to starting and loving your new homestead : raising chickens, animal husbandry, growing a garden, home dairy production, beekeeping, resourceful living, homestead kitchen skills
Cool Springs Press, 2022
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The 1st time homesteader : a complete beginner's guide to starting and loving your new homestead : raising chickens, animal husbandry, growing a garden, home dairy production, bee keeping, resourceful living, homestead kitchen skills
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Description
Are you striving for improved self-reliance and self-sufficiency for yourself and your family? Author Jessica Sowards of YouTube's Roots & Refuge Farm is the warm and welcoming guide you've been waiting for.
Homesteading is a mindset and a lifestyle aimed at living lightly on the land, being more resourceful, appreciating the value of hard work, and understanding the diverse and amazing connections between humans and the planet we live on. Homesteaders constantly strive for a more sustainable life and a greater connection to the cycles of nature and the foods and goods we consume. Starting your very first homestead is a journey of discovery and passion that's also likely filled with questions and what-ifs. In The First-Time Homesteader, Jessica fills in all the blanks with honesty, humor, and charm.
Now you can take those first and most valuable steps toward establishing your own homestead with a seasoned homesteader at your side. Jessica warmly guides you through the process of setting up your property (no matter how small or large), establishing a garden, welcoming animals into the fold, living more resourcefully, and expanding your homestead kitchen tools and skills with grace and confidence.
Start your first homestead with lessons on:
Raising chickens for meat and eggs
Starting and operating a home dairy
Housing, fencing, and processing advice for meat animals
Planning and planting your homestead vegetable garden
Keeping bees for honey, pollination, and beeswax
Stocking your medicine cabinet with useful herbs and home remedies
Living a resourceful existence by reusing and repurposing
Stocking the kitchen with all the tools and techniques you need for success
You don't have to live off-grid or give up contemporary conveniences to homestead. You just have to have the desire to live a more thoughtful and fulfilling life. Take your very first step today, hand in hand with an experienced and enthusiastic guide in The First-Time Homesteader.
Table of Contents
Introduction
CH 1 Making a Plan
CH 2 Yard Birds
CH 3 Meat in the Freezer
CH 4 The Home Dairy
CH 5 The Homestead Garden
CH 6 Keeping Bees
CH 7 Resourceful Living and Natural Remedies
CH 8 Homestead Kitchen Skills
Conclusion
A Simple and Beautiful Life
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Index
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