MODERN HOMESTEADING

Practical skills for urban and rural self-sufficiency.


Enjoy the sweet rewards of beekeeping. Here’s what you need to know to keep bees — using natural methods — and harvest fresh, delicious honey from your own back yard.
Simple hand tools such as the scythe, garden cart and broadfork are well-suited for the homestead garden.

Whether you are a homesteading wannabe or have years of experience in self-sufficiency, this book is a must-have resource.

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This 476-page book is a compendium of treasured knowledge from hundreds of small booklets published as "Country Wisdom Bulletins" in the 1970s. Whether you want to build a stone fence, make strawberry-rhubarb jam or plant an herb garden, this book will show you how.

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No home, whether in the country, the city, or somewhere in between, should be without this one-of-a-kind 928-page encyclopedia. For more than 30 years, people have relied on Carla Emery's practical, step-by-step advice on basic self-sufficiency skills such as how to cultivate a garden, buy land, bake bread, raise farm animals, make sausage, milk a goat, grow herbs, churn butter, build a chicken coop, cook on a wood stove, and much, much more. This updated 10th edition includes expanded and updat…

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