Creating a Modern Homestead: Traditional Skills for Real, Everyday Life

Name: Creating a Modern Homestead: Traditional Skills for Real, Everyday Life
Brand: Lyons Press
SKU: SP-9781493090495
Price: 41.93 USD
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Brief Description:
"Discover how to easily fit simple living and self-sufficiency into your life in a way that works for you. Learn the lost art of from-scratch cooking, practice food security by keeping a deep pantry, find out how easy it is to raise backyard chickens, experience the joy of growing your own food (even in a small space), preserve your own harvest by canning, freeze-drying, and dehydrating . . . and more!"--

Review Quotes:
"Victoria has a rare gift for inspiring new homesteaders to not only dream but also to take meaningful action toward living the life they've always imagined. Her firsthand experience, coupled with her approachable, real-life advice, has been a guiding light for me on my own journey. Thanks to her words, I found the courage to start writing about our homestead and to pursue the life I've always wanted. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow your existing homestead, Creating a Modern Homestead will empower you to make your dream a reality, no matter where you call home."--Ashley Adamant, creator of Practical Self Reliance and Creative Canning

Review Quotes:
"Victoria has carefully taken years of her own experiences--many of the same experiences I had--and turned them into one of the most comprehensive handbooks I have ever seen in the homesteading world. This is the book I wish I would've had as a young homesteader, wife, and mother just getting started from scratch."--Amy K. Fewell

Review Quotes:
"Victoria brings homesteading concepts to everyday living, making Creating a Modern Homestead a must-read for everyone who is interested in sustainable living, putting food by, and pursuing the life of your dreams, even if you can't move to the country."--Darcy Baldwin, creator of The Purposeful Pantry

Biographical Note:
Victoria Pruett is owner and creator of A Modern Homestead, one of the first homesteading websites. In 2014, she was living in a subdivision house with no yard and dreaming of life on a homestead. She grew up with grandparents on both sides who loved gardening, canning, and scratch-cooking and knew she wanted to stay connected to those roots. Doing everything she could to homestead in the city became her passion project. Soon, her passion grew to the point that she knew she wanted to help others learn how to live a more traditional life, even in the city. So, A Modern Homestead was born and she began sharing her journey online with the world.

Today, her family lives on an 8-acre homestead in Central Texas, and shares their journey with millions of people every year via the site and social media channels. Those visitors turn to her content as they learn traditional skills and generally work to make their homesteading dreams a reality; it's both incredibly humbling and a responsibility that she takes very seriously. Visit her online at AModernHomestead.com.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: From Scratch Cooking
Chapter 2: Keeping a Deep Pantry
Chapter 3: Food Preservation, Part I--Canning and Freezing
Chapter 4: Food Preservation, Part II--Dehydrating and Freeze-Drying
Chapter 5: Growing Your Own Food
Chapter 6: Keeping Backyard Chickens
Chapter 7: Baking with Sourdough
Final Thoughts
Index

Review Quotes:
"Thoroughly 'reader/user' friendly in organization and presentation, Creating a Modern Homestead is comprehensive, fascinating, inspiring, and 'real world' practical."-- "Midwest Book Review"

Publisher Marketing:
Learn how to easily bring simple living and self-sufficiency into your life, no matter where you live, in a way that works for you.

As our modern lives demand more and more from us, many people long for a slower pace of life. While picking up and moving to the country may not be an option for everyone, it is possible to embrace simple living and more traditional skills no matter where you live. Learn the lost art of from-scratch cooking, practice food security by keeping a deep pantry, find out how easy it is to raise backyard chickens, experience the joy of growing your own food (even in a small space), and preserve your own harvest through a variety of methods.

For the last ten years, Victoria Pruett of A Modern Homestead has guided her readers through the process of discovering that they truly can incorporate traditional skills into their everyday routines while they also juggle work, children, and social lives. Though the idea of including traditional skills may conjure images of spending eight hours a day in the kitchen, nothing could be further from the truth. Instead, Victoria teaches you how to deepen your skillset and understanding of self-reliance and how to easily fit simple living into your life in a way that works for you. Chapters cover:

Cooking from scratch: 126 recipes for breads, main dishes, and desserts
Building a robust food supply for your family
Food preservation: water bath canning, pressure canning, freezing, dehydrating, and freeze-drying
Best practices for backyard chickens
Customizing your backyard garden--including traditional and Back to Eden methods--for your zone and growing season, companion planting, and natural pest control
How to make sourdough work for you
And more!