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1. Homestead Kitchen: Stories and Recipes from Our Hearth to Yours
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Homestead Kitchen Stories and Recipes from Our Hearth to YoursDescription
The first cookbook from homesteaders and co-stars of DiscoverysAlaska: The Last FrontierEve and Eivin Kilcher features appealing recipes for anyone looking to live more sustainably, healthfully, and independently, regardless of where and what they call home.Eve and Eivin Kilcher, stars of the hit Discovery showAlaska: The Last Frontier, are experts in sustainable living. Homesteaders by choice, the couple has had to use their self-reliance skills to survive harsh winters in the Alaskan wilderness and raise a thriving family. In their debut book, the Kilchers share 85 original family recipes and advice on gardening, preserving, and foraging. The tips and techniques they have cultivated from their family and through necessity will help anyone looking to shrink their environmental footprint and become less dependent on mass-produced food and products. Stunningly photographed in and around their handmade home and farm,Homestead Kitchenillustrates that taking on small-scale sustainable projects is not only possible in a suburban/urban setting, but ultimately a more responsible and gratifying way to live.
2. Welcome to the Farm: How-to Wisdom from The Elliott Homestead
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Welcome to the Farm How To Wisdom from the Elliott HomesteadDescription
A fresh, new guide to the backyard lifestyleThe homesteading movement is continuing to grow, as more people are stepping up to have a hand in where their food comes from. Whether you want to dabble or immerse yourself completely in the do-it-yourself, back-to-basics lifestyle, Welcome to the Farm is a comprehensive, fully illustrated guide to growing the very best food right in your own backyard. Shaye Elliott takes readers on a journey that teaches them how to harvest baskets full of organic produce, milk a dairy cow (and make butter), plant a homestead orchard, can jams and jellies, and even raise chickens and bees. From her experience running The Elliott Homestead, Shaye provides all the how-to wisdom you need to know about:
- The benefits of a home garden
- The basics of seed starting
- Building your own greenhouse
- What belongs in the winter garden
- Canning, freezing, and dehydrating techniques and recipes
- The pros and cons of caged vs. free-range chickens
- Keeping a dairy cow and what to do with all the milk
- Raising animals for meat
- Making your own cider and wine
- And so much more!
Welcome to the Farm is aimed to serve homesteaders and urban-farmers alike, guiding them through the beginning stages of small-area farming and utilizing whatever amount of space they have available for optimal and delicious food production.
3. 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.
4. 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
5. The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How: Field-to-Table Cooking Skills
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The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know How Field To Table Cooking SkillsDescription
Growing vegetables and raising livestock is only the beginning of a successful homestead that fresh food goes to waste unless you can properly prepare, cook, and preserve it. Andrea Chesman shows you how to bridge the gap between field and table, covering everything from curing meats and making sausage to canning fruits and vegetables, milling flour, working with sourdough, baking no-knead breads, making braises and stews that can be adapted to different cuts of meat, rendering lard and tallow, pickling, making butter and cheese, making yogurt, blanching vegetables for the freezer, making jams and jellies, drying produce, and much more. Youll learn all the techniques you need to get the most from homegrown foods, along with dozens of simple and delicious recipes, most of which can be adapted to use whatever you have available.
6. 5 Acres & A Dream The Book: The Challenges of Establishing a Self-Sufficient Homestead
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5 Acres a Dream the Book The Challenges of Establishing a Self Sufficient HomesteadDescription
What does it take to become a successful homesteader?Based on her popular homesteading blog, 5 Acres & A Dream, Leigh Tate shares how she and her husband Dan are facing the challenges of trying to establish a self-sufficient homestead; from defining their dream, finding property, and setting priorities, to obstacles and difficult times, to learning how to work smarter, not harder. She shares what they've learned about energy self-sufficiency, water self-sufficiency, and food self-sufficiency for themselves and their goats and chickens too. Included are copies of their homestead master plan plus revisions, homegrown vitamins and minerals for goats, and several of Leigh's favorite homestead recipes.
7. The Woodland Homestead: How to Make Your Land More Productive and Live More Self-Sufficiently in the Woods
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The Woodland Homestead How to Make Your Land More Productive and Live More Self Sufficiently in the WoodsDescription
Put your wooded land to work! This comprehensive manual shows you how to use your woodlands to produce everything from wine and mushrooms to firewood and livestock feed. Youll learn how to take stock of your woods; use axes, bow saws, chainsaws, and other key tools; create pasture and silvopasture for livestock; prune and coppice trees to make fuel, fodder, and furniture; build living fencing and shelters for animals; grow fruit trees and berries in a woodland orchard; make syrup from birch, walnut, or boxelder trees; and much more. Whether your property is entirely or only partly wooded, this is the guide you need to make the best use of it.
8. The Homestead: The Dakota Series, Book 1
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The Homestead The Dakota Series Book 1Description
They settle in North Dakota, hundreds of miles from any Amish community. Hannahs mother does her best to be a good wife, supporting her husband as they try to build a new life in a wholly unfamiliar place.
Things arent going quite as Hannahs father had imaginedhis visions of success are shattered by the reality that his knowledge of farming in Lancaster isnt of much use in Midwestern soil. With the fields barren and her family on the verge of starvation, Hannah decides to take matters into her own hands. She goes into town looking for a job and finds one at a cattle ranch, where she meets charismatic ranch hand Clay Jenkins.
Clay is drawn to the independent, strong-willed newcomer. As they work together at the ranch, Hannah grapples with her own feelings for Clay, an English boy. Her life is more uncertain than ever. With Hannahs help, will her family get back on their feet and prosper in North Dakota? And what will happen with Clay Jenkins?
9. 40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead: A Hands-on, Step-by-Step Sustainable-Living Guide (Build Feeders, Fences, Coops, & Sheds, Includes Wind & Solar Power, Rooftop & Vertical Gardening)
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A companion volume to Backyard Homesteading, 40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead provides details on how to build more than 40 projects to enhance your sustainable living.Even if you are only moderately handy, you'll discover the tools and techniques for building your own feeders, fences, and structures. In the process, you'll save money and have the satisfaction of doing it yourself!
10. The Backyard Homestead Seasonal Planner: What to Do & When to Do It in the Garden, Orchard, Barn, Pasture & Equipment Shed