Heirloom Skills
eBook - ePub

Heirloom Skills

A Complete Guide to Modern Homesteading

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Heirloom Skills

A Complete Guide to Modern Homesteading

About this book

100 ways to embrace the simple life, with step-by-step instructions for keeping chickens, growing vegetables, making beer and wine, arranging flowers, soap making, and more! This is a home-management book for the twenty-first century. Alva Herdevall and Anders Rydell combine traditional methods with modern ideas to show that a higher degree of self-sufficiency is possible for everyone. You will learn the secrets of beekeeping, how to grow your own cut flowers, and how to bake a perfect loaf of sourdough. Discover how easy it is to churn butter, make your own yogurt, and raise chickens for meat and eggs. Turn rhubarb stalks into refreshing summer wine, perfect your compost pile, and make decadent and nontoxic skin creams.
  • Keep chickens
  • Grow and arrange flowers
  • Raise bees
  • Make soap
  • Grow fresh veggies
  • Can and ferment your produce
  • Make sourdough bread
  • And more!
Complete with gorgeous photos throughout, this book is sure to inspire you or the homesteader in your life to expand your repertoire of heirloom skills.

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Information

Publisher
Skyhorse
eBook ISBN
9781510777910
Year
2023

Table of contents

  1. FRONT COVER
  2. TITLE PAGE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. PREFACE
  5. FRESH CUT FLOWERS
  6. SOURDOUGH & BAKING
  7. KEEPING CHICKENS
  8. STARTING A MICRO DAIRY
  9. COMPOST & FERTILIZER
  10. BATH & BEAUTY
  11. GARDENING
  12. DRINK CABINET CLASSICS
  13. BEEKEEPING
  14. HOT DRINKS
  15. STORING & PREPPING
  16. CLEANING & HOUSEKEEPING
  17. DUCKS
  18. BEER & HOPS
  19. WINEMAKING
  20. TREES & BUSHES
  21. INDEXES
  22. THANKS
  23. COPYRIGHT PAGE