Finding your suitable homesteader book is not easy. You may need consider between hundred or thousand products from many store. In this article, we make a short list of the best homesteader book including detail information and customer reviews. Let’s find out which is your favorite one.
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1. The Modern Homesteader's Guide to Keeping Geese
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While chickens preen in the spotlight, geese are the historic unsung heroes of small farms and homesteads. Providing weed control, large eggs, and entertainment, and acting as security over other animals, geese are the ultimate modern homesteading companion.
The Modern Homesteaders Guide to Keeping Geese covers everything you need to know to raise geese, including:
Profiles of breeds and how to select the best one for your needsHow to imprint goslings on a person
Feeding, housing, animal health, and cold weather care
Using geese for weed control, soil improvement, and as watch geese
Cooking with goose eggs and meat
Additional coverage includes a look at the rich history of geese on farms in North America and Europe that will enhance any goose keepers enjoyment of these intelligent and unique birds.
This practical guide is a must-have essential for the kitchen table of homesteaders, small farmers, permaculturists, and professional farmers looking to add the power of geese to their land.
Kirsten Lie-Nielsen has been raising geese for most of her life. She writes about homesteading and farming for Grit, Mother Earth News, Backyard Poultry, and hobbyfarms.com. She and her partners experiences farming, raising animals, and restoring a 200-year-old farm in Liberty, Maine, are chronicled at hostilevalleyliving.com.
2. Letters of a Woman Homesteader (Dover Books on Americana)
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Letters of a Woman HomesteaderDescription
Spring and summers were hard, she concedes, and were taken up with branding, farming, doctoring cattle, and other chores. But with the arrival of fall, Pruitt found time to take her young daughter on camping trips and serve her neighbors as midwife, doctor, teacher, Santa Claus, and friend. She provides a candid portrait of these and other experiences in twenty-six letters written to a friend back in Denver.
Described by the Wall Street Journal as "warmly delightful, vigorously affirmative," this unsurpassed classic of American frontier life enhanced with original illustrations by N. C. Wyeth will charm today's audience as much as it fascinated readers when it was first published in 1914.
3. Carry On: Stan Zuray's Journey from Boston Greaser to Alaskan Homesteader
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In 1960s inner city Boston, Stan Zuray had no future. As the Vietnam war took more and more of his friends, and many of those who returned sank further into drugs and despair, Stan looked for meaning and found nothing. His life's purpose lay thirty-three hundred miles northwest, deep in the Tozitna River Valley in the heart of Alaska's frozen interior. Deadly cold, famine, grizzly bears, and one unruly sled dog with a grudge kept Stan on the knife's edge between survival and death. Humbled by the power of nature, the Boston greaser who was destined for prison found a new life in the wild, where one mistake can prove fatal. This is the true story of Stan Zuray's incredible journey; the reformation of a man's heart and mind in the forbidding darkness of Alaska's endless winter.4. The Backyard Homestead Book of Building Projects: 76 Useful Things You Can Build to Create Customized Working Spaces and Storage Facilities, Equip the ... Animals, and Make Practical Outdoor Furniture
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The Backyard Homestead Book of Building ProjectsDescription
Gardeners, small farmers, and outdoor living enthusiasts will love this compilation of 76 rustic DIY projects. From plant supports and clotheslines to a chicken coop, a greenhouse, and a root cellar with storage bins, most of the projects are suitable for complete novices, and all use just basic tools and easy-to-find materials. Youll find techniques to build whatever your outdoor world is missing, with additional tips to live sustainably, happily, and independently.
5. The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!
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The Backyard Homestead Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acreDescription
6. The Weekend Homesteader: A Twelve-Month Guide to Self-Sufficiency
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The Weekend Homesteader A Twelve Month Guide to Self SufficiencyDescription
The Weekend Homesteader is organized by monthso whether its January or June youll find exciting, short projects that you can use to dip your toes into the vast ocean of homesteading without getting overwhelmed. If you need to fit homesteading into a few hours each weekend and would like to have fun while doing it, these projects will be right up your alley, whether you live on a forty-acre farm, a postage-stamp lawn in suburbia, or a high rise.
You'll learn about backyard chicken care, how to choose the best mushroom and berry species, and why and how to plant a no-till garden that heals the soil while providing nutritious food. Permaculture techniques will turn your homestead into a vibrant ecosystem and attract native pollinators while converting our society's waste into high-quality compost and mulch. Meanwhile, enjoy the fruits of your labor right away as you learn the basics of cooking and eating seasonally, then preserve homegrown produce for later by drying, canning, freezing, or simply filling your kitchen cabinets with storage vegetables. As you become more self-sufficient, you'll save seeds, prepare for power outages, and tear yourself away from a full-time job, while building a supportive and like-minded community. You won't be completely eliminating your reliance on the grocery store, but you will be plucking low-hanging (and delicious!) fruits out of your own garden by the time all forty-eight projects are complete.
7. Big Bend: A Homesteader's Story
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Big Bend A Homesteader s StoryDescription
To the wild and fabulous country where the Rio Grande makes its big bend, J. O. Langford came in 1909 with his wife and daughter in search of health and a home. High on a bluff overlooking the spot where Tornillo Creek pours its waters into the turbulent Rio Grande, the Langfords built their home, a rude structure of adobe blocks in a land reputed to be inhabited only by bandits and rattlesnakes.
Big Bend is the story of the Langfords' life in the rugged and spectacularly beautiful country which they came to call their own. Langford's account is told with the help of Fred Gipson, author of Old Yeller and Hound Dog Man.
8. The Homesteader
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The HomesteaderDescription
THEIR cognomen was Stewart, and three years had gone by since their return from Western Kansas where they had been on what they now chose to regard as a "Wild Goose Chase." The substance was, that as farmers they had failed to raise even one crop during the three years they spent there, so had in the end, therefore, returned broken and defeated to the rustic old district of Indiana where they had again taken up their residence on a rented farm. Welcomed home like the "return of the prodigal," the age old gossip of "I told you so!" had been exchanged, and the episode was about forgotten.9. The Art of Plant-Based Cheesemaking: How to Craft Real, Cultured, Non-Dairy Cheese (Urban Homesteader Hacks)
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The Art of Plant Based Cheesemaking How to Craft Real Cultured Non Dairy Cheese Urban Homesteader HacksDescription
Make your own real, non-dairy cheese at hometraditional methods for making plant-based cheese
As plant-based, dairy-free diets continue to expand in popularity for health and ethical reasons, cheese often becomes the last hurdle.
Much of what passes for non-dairy cheese lacks the quality and depth of authentic, cultured cheese. Yet for aspiring DIY plant-based cheesemakers, much of the knowledge of this new craft is scattered in isolated kitchens, and theres no real reliable guidance to what works, what doesnt, and why, when making real, cultured plant-based cheese. This book aims to change all that and bring this new craft into the kitchens of the world.
Written by a pioneering plant-based cheesemaker who draws deep from the well of experience, The Art of Plant-based Cheesemaking is a clear, highly practical guide that extends traditional cheesemaking methods into the realm of plant-based media as a substitute for dairy.
Coverage includes:
- Understanding culturing and fermentation
Essential ingredients and equipment for crafting plant-based cheese
Plant and nut-based media and how to make them
How to create and train plant-based cultures
Delicious recipes for quick cheeses
Advanced recipes for cultured and aged cheeses
Resources for sourcing equipment and cultures.
Packed with step-by-step recipes, straightforward processes, and encouraging experimentation, this book makes plant-based cheesemaking accessible for beginners and serious foodies alike.
Simply everything you need to make delicious non-dairy cheese right at home.
Karen McAthy is Executive Chef of Zend Conscious Lounge and Chef and Founder of Blue Heron Creamery in Vancouver, BC, which creates and supplies authentic cultured plant-based cheeses to restaurants, retail outlets, and private customers.
10. Land of The Burnt Thigh: A Lively Story of Women Homesteaders On The South Dakota Frontier (Borealis Books)
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This tale of two sisters courageously homesteading on the prairie in 1907 provides a lively portrait of frontier life."Interesting in its spirit and atmosphere, and it is told simply and well. . . This is an unusual record, well worth reading."New York Times Book Review
"Mrs. Kohl has told this story of South Dakota with a simplicity, a directness, and an understanding of its quietly heroic element which make her book an appealing as well as a significant contribution to the latter-day history of the pioneers."-Saturday Review
11. Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One's Own
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Montana Women Homesteaders A Field of One s OwnDescription
In Montana Women Homesteaders: A Field of One's Own, author and historian Sarah Carter introduces the voices and images of women who filed on 160- or 320-acre homestead plots in Montana.Single, widowed, divorced, or deserted, women varied in ages, educational levels, and ethnic backgrounds, but all proved up on their homesteads.
In published accounts, scrapbooks, personal reminiscences, and photographs, the women recorded their remarkable journeys.
Carter reveals inspiring stories filled with joy, tragedy, and redemption.
Silver medal, WILLA Literary Awards, scholarly nonfiction, 2010
For more information, visit FarcountryPress.com.
12. The Ultimate Self-Sufficiency Handbook: A Complete Guide to Baking, Crafts, Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More (The Self-Sufficiency Series)
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- Bake Pies, Cakes, and Bread
- Grow Vegetables yy Raise Chickens
- Keep Bees
- Preserve Your Harvest
- Cure Meats
- Build a Treehouse
- Spin Wool
- Make a Toboggan
- And Much More!
13. Alaska Homesteader's Handbook: Independent Living on the Last Frontier
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A remarkable compilation of practical information for living in one of the most impractical and inhospitable landscapes in the United States. More than forty pioneer types ranging from their mid-nineties to mid- twenties describe their reasons for choosing to live their lives in Alaska and offer useful instructions and advice that made that life more livable. Whether it be how to live among bears, build an outhouse, cross a river, or make birch syrup, each story gives readers a window to a life most will never know but many still dream about. Fifty photographs and 150 line drawings illustrate the real-life experiences of Alaska settlers such as 1930s New Deal colonists, de-mobilized military who stayed after World War II, dream-seekers from the 60s and 70s, and myriad others who staked their claim in Alaska.
14. The Alaskan Homesteader
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The Alaskan HomesteaderDescription
Mel Adkins describes life in Alaska in the early days of statehood by a family from the plains of Oklahoma. They learned to be inventive and self reliant in a land untouched by humans after moving more than twelve miles from the nearest road, to a one hundred and sixty acre homestead on the Kenai Peninsula. To a young man just entering his teens this was a dream come true, but the physical labor that had to be done the first year, simply to survive, was more than he had ever imagined. Cutting firewood with a manual cross cut saw, packing water from the spring, working on a sawmill, and packing supplies in to the homestead on his back left little time for hunting and fishing. The family almost starved and froze out that first year, but sheer will power, stubborness, and rugged determination for a better way of life persevered; A family of the greenest chechocko's that ever homesteaded in the land of the midnight sun.15. How to Raise Chickens for Eggs and Meat: A Quick Guide on Raising Chickens for the Beginning Homesteader
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Raising chickens is a fun adventure for a beginning or experienced chicken farmer to embark upon. In doing so, youll increase your overall health and have a lot of fun doing so! However, it does require some basic research.
This book will teach you how to: Select the best breed of chicken for your needs
Raise chickens from day-old chicks
Incubate eggs
Construct and equip brooders
Raise chicks
Troubleshoot health problems in freshly hatched chicks
Transition pullets and cockerels to an outdoor coop
Build and equip coops with feed, water, nesting, and roosting systems
Evaluate whether free-ranging is right for your birds
Prevent the incidence of predators
Decide upon the best coop construction for your lifestyle
Provide proper feed, water, shelter, and bedding
Increase efficiency and environmental friendliness through helpful add-ons
Raise laying hens
Increase and maintain egg production
Deal with the molting process
Raise healthy meat birds
Slaughter, butcher and process meat birds
Overwinter (or raise birds throughout cold months)
Maintain adequate egg production during the winter
Improve meat quality and flavor
Be a successful and happy chicken owner!
About the Expert: Rebekah White lives in upstate New York on a small, cozy slice of heaven. She raises chickens, pigs, honey bees, and vegetables to sustain herself and her close family. When shes not at home with her animals, she is working at her day job teaching high school English at a rural school. In the meantime, she enjoys running, traveling, cooking (especially with fresh produce and homegrown meats!), and writing (ideally about the farm!). She has also published articles on home remedies and recipes, canning and food preservation, and various general interest stories.
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