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  • Men’s Homesteading Crazy Chicken Lady Word Cloud Tee T-shirt 2XL Black

    Men’s Homesteading Crazy Chicken Lady Word Cloud Tee T-shirt 2XL Black

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    Love chickens? Know a Crazy Chicken Lady? Get this novelty t-shirt today! Exclusive design.Homesteading/self-reliance themed t-shirtFor the Crazy Chicken LadyLightweight, Classic fit, Double-needle sleeve and bottom hem;

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    Love chickens? Know a Crazy Chicken Lady? Get this novelty t-shirt today! Exclusive design.Homesteading/self-reliance themed t-shirt
    For the Crazy Chicken Lady
    Lightweight, Classic fit, Double-needle sleeve and bottom hem

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  • Homesteading: Settling America’s Heartland

    Homesteading: Settling America’s Heartland

    Homesteading: Settling America’s Heartland describes the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of the brave pioneer families who set out into the unknown to create a home on the vast, desolate grasslands of the Great Plains. The Homestead Act of 1862 offered, practically free, a 160-acre plot to anyone willing to develop it. Hundreds of men, women,…;

    Homesteading: Settling America’s Heartland describes the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of the brave pioneer families who set out into the unknown to create a home on the vast, desolate grasslands of the Great Plains. The Homestead Act of 1862 offered, practically free, a 160-acre plot to anyone willing to develop it. Hundreds of men, women, and children took advantage of the opportunity to build a home, a farm, and a while new life on the western prairie.
    The homesteader’s life could be harsh. The Great Plains had few resources, unpredictable weather, and numerous dangers. Nevertheless, many stalwart Americans and immigrants took up the challenge. Many failed, but others survived and eventually thrived, opening the way for generations of Westerners to come.
    Kids and adults alike will delight in this engaging short history, beautifully illustrated with full-color photographs by William Muñoz

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  • Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition

    Gaia’s Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture, 2nd Edition

    This entry is in the series Best Permaculture Reference Books

    The first edition of Gaia’s Garden sparked the imagination of America’s home gardeners, introducing permaculture’s central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban growers. Many people mistakenly…;

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    The first edition of Gaia’s Garden sparked the imagination of America’s home gardeners, introducing permaculture’s central message: Working with Nature, not against her, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens. This extensively revised and expanded second edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban growers.

    Many people mistakenly think that ecological gardening—which involves growing a wide range of edible and other useful plants—can take place only on a large, multiacre scale. As Hemenway demonstrates, it’s fun and easy to create a “backyard ecosystem” by assembling communities of plants that can work cooperatively and perform a variety of functions, including:

    • Building and maintaining soil fertility and structure
    • Catching and conserving water in the landscape
    • Providing habitat for beneficial insects, birds, and animals
    • Growing an edible “forest” that yields seasonal fruits, nuts, and other foods

    This revised and updated edition also features a new chapter on urban permaculture, designed especially for people in cities and suburbs who have very limited growing space. Whatever size yard or garden you have to work with, you can apply basic permaculture principles to make it more diverse, more natural, more productive, and more beautiful. Best of all, once it’s established, an ecological garden will reduce or eliminate most of the backbreaking work that’s needed to maintain the typical lawn and garden.

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  • Edible Forest Gardens (2 volume set)

    Edible Forest Gardens (2 volume set)

    This entry is in the series Best Food Forest Books

    Edible Forest Gardens is a groundbreaking two-volume work that spells out and explores the key concepts of forest ecology and applies them to the needs of natural gardeners in temperate climates. Volume I lays out the vision of the forest garden and explains the basic ecological principles that make it work. In Volume II, Dave…;

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    Edible Forest Gardens is a groundbreaking two-volume work that spells out and explores the key concepts of forest ecology and applies them to the needs of natural gardeners in temperate climates. Volume I lays out the vision of the forest garden and explains the basic ecological principles that make it work. In Volume II, Dave Jacke and Eric Toensmeier move on to practical considerations: concrete ways to design, establish, and maintain your own forest garden. Along the way they present case studies and examples, as well as tables, illustrations, and a uniquely valuable “plant matrix” that lists hundreds of the best edible and useful species.

    Taken together, the two volumes of Edible Forest Gardens offer an advanced course in ecological gardening-one that will forever change the way you look at plants and your environment.

    What is an edible forest garden?
    An edible forest garden is a perennial polyculture of multipurpose plants. Most plants regrow every year without replanting: perennials. Many species grow together: a polyculture. Each plant contributes to the success of the whole by fulfilling many functions: multipurpose. In other words, a forest garden is an edible ecosystem, a consciously designed community of mutually beneficial plants and animals intended for human food production. Edible forest gardens provide more than just a variety of foods. The seven F’s apply here: food, fuel, fiber, fodder, fertilizer, and “farmaceuticals,” as well as fun. A beautiful, lush environment can be a conscious focus of your garden design, or a side benefit you enjoy

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  • Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

    Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

    Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they’d only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in…;

    Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life—vowing that, for one year, they’d only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.

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  • Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

    Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

    “We wanted to live in a place that could feed us: where rain falls, crops grow, and drinking water bubbles up right out of the ground.” Barbara Kingsolver opens her home to us, as she and her family attempt a year of eating only local food, much of it from their own garden. Inspired by…;

    “We wanted to live in a place that could feed us: where rain falls, crops grow, and drinking water bubbles up right out of the ground.” Barbara Kingsolver opens her home to us, as she and her family attempt a year of eating only local food, much of it from their own garden. Inspired by the flavours and culinary arts of a local food culture, they explore many a farmers market and diversified organic farms at home and across the country. With characteristic warmth, Kingsolver shows us how to put food back at the centre of the political and family agenda. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is part memoir, part journalistic investigation, and is full of original recipes that celebrate healthy eating, sustainability and the pleasures of good food.

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  • Mini Farming: 10 Best Ways Of Making Your Small Farm Profitable

    Mini Farming: 10 Best Ways Of Making Your Small Farm Profitable

    Mini Farming10 Best Ways Of Making Your Small Farm ProfitableMost people have never even heard of mini farming. The reason? It’s really just not that popular as of yet. But just like a lot of other things (bell-bottom jeans, Mohawks and rap music) it’s coming into its own. The reason is that regular farming is…;

    Mini Farming

    10 Best Ways Of Making Your Small Farm Profitable

    Most people have never even heard of mini farming. The reason? It’s really just not that popular as of yet. But just like a lot of other things (bell-bottom jeans, Mohawks and rap music) it’s coming into its own. The reason is that regular farming is starting to become a problem for a lot of people. It’s just so difficult to make a living as a full-fledged farmer because there’s so much work involved and not enough demand for it. The big time farmers, the ones that once were able to sustain large farms and take care of their entire family are having trouble making ends meet.

    Part of the reason for that is mini farming but most of it is the lack of business available in larger markets. Major farmers are trying to compete with other major farmers for markets like grocery stores and that’s a really difficult market to break into. If you start mini farming however, the only people you’re going to be competing against are the other local farmers in your area. What you’ll usually find is that there’s plenty of people looking for locally grown products and not quite enough people who are selling them. So this can actually be a pretty profitable niche for you.

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  • Beekeeping for Beginners: A Simple Guide For Learning How To Set Up & Maintain A Beehive In Your Own Backyard! (Beekeeping, Homesteading, Gardening, Hives, Honey)

    Beekeeping for Beginners: A Simple Guide For Learning How To Set Up & Maintain A Beehive In Your Own Backyard! (Beekeeping, Homesteading, Gardening, Hives, Honey)

    This entry is in the series Best Beekeeping Books

    The simplest, most complete book on how to set up a beehive and harvest honey in your own backyard!While many of us love honey for its sweet taste and health benefits, commercial sources can contain preservatives and other ingredients which make their honey less than pure. One way to ensure you’re getting honey in its…;

    The simplest, most complete book on how to set up a beehive and harvest honey in your own backyard!

    While many of us love honey for its sweet taste and health benefits, commercial sources can contain preservatives and other ingredients which make their honey less than pure. One way to ensure you’re getting honey in its unadulterated form, and in a much more fun and educational way than buying it from a health food store, is to make it yourself. This guide aims to quickly get you up to speed on all facets of beekeeping so you can get started right away!

    Here Is A Preview Of What You’ll Learn:

    • Where to keep your hives when beekeeping

    • Identifying the basic woodenware assembly parts for your beehive

    • Adding feeders to your hive

    • Selecting accessories & tools for your hive

    • Obtaining the startup bee colony

    • Exactly what to do the day that your bees arrive

    • Creation of a 2nd bee colony from the existing beehive

    • Harvesting honey

    • And so much more!

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  • One-Pot Cookbook: Family-Friendly Everyday Soup, Casserole, Slow Cooker and Skillet Recipes for Busy People on a Budget Vol 2: Dump Dinners and One-Pot Meals (Healthy Cooking and Cookbooks)

    One-Pot Cookbook: Family-Friendly Everyday Soup, Casserole, Slow Cooker and Skillet Recipes for Busy People on a Budget Vol 2: Dump Dinners and One-Pot Meals (Healthy Cooking and Cookbooks)

    Top 50 No-Stress One-Pot Dinners – Spend More Time Enjoying Your Meal And Less Time Cleaning UpFrom the author of several bestselling cookbooks, Vesela Tabakova, comes a great new collection of delicious, easy to make family recipes. This time she offers us 50 comforting and enjoyable one-pot dishes full of your favorite vegetables, meats and…;

    Everyday Fuss-free Slow Cooker Meals and Kindle Unlimited Best SellersPrice: Free

    Top 50 No-Stress One-Pot Dinners – Spend More Time Enjoying Your Meal And Less Time Cleaning Up

    From the author of several bestselling cookbooks, Vesela Tabakova, comes a great new collection of delicious, easy to make family recipes. This time she offers us 50 comforting and enjoyable one-pot dishes full of your favorite vegetables, meats and legumes, that are simple and easy to cook whether you need a quick weeknight supper or a delicious weekend dinner.
    One-Pot Cookbook: Family-Friendly Dinner Recipes for Busy People on a Budget Vol.2 is an invaluable and delicious collection of healthy one-pot recipes that will please everyone at the table and become all time favorites.
    If you’re looking for easy delicious everyday recipes to help satisfy your family and your budget, this cookbook is for you.
    ***FREE BONUS RECIPES at the end of the book – Ridiculously Easy Jam and Jelly Recipes Anyone Can Make!***

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  • Let it Rot!: The Gardener’s Guide to Composting (Third Edition) (Storey’s Down-To-Earth Guides)

    Let it Rot!: The Gardener’s Guide to Composting (Third Edition) (Storey’s Down-To-Earth Guides)

    This entry is in the series Best Fertilizer & Soils Books

    Transform leaves, grass, and kitchen scraps into gardener’s gold! This easy-to-use guide shows you how to turn household garbage and backyard refuse into nutrient-filled compost that can nourish your soil and promote a thriving garden. You’ll soon be saving money, minimizing waste, and enjoying bountiful harvests.Great product!;

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    Transform leaves, grass, and kitchen scraps into gardener’s gold! This easy-to-use guide shows you how to turn household garbage and backyard refuse into nutrient-filled compost that can nourish your soil and promote a thriving garden. You’ll soon be saving money, minimizing waste, and enjoying bountiful harvests.
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  • Men’s Gardening, Farming, Homesteading, Maker T-shirts: The Thinker Grower Maker Tee by Root & Ramble

    Men’s Gardening, Farming, Homesteading, Maker T-shirts: The Thinker Grower Maker Tee by Root & Ramble

    This shirt tells the world you believe in big things. You believe in inspiration and action. You believe in constant motion and forward momentum. You believe that the cycle of life isn’t something you just watch spin around and around…it’s something you hop onto and pedal like a lunatic. Every day you pilot that cycle…;

    This shirt tells the world you believe in big things. You believe in inspiration and action. You believe in constant motion and forward momentum. You believe that the cycle of life isn’t something you just watch spin around and around…it’s something you hop onto and pedal like a lunatic. Every day you pilot that cycle uphill and downhill and around sharp turns and straightaways. You believe that work is life and life is love and everything is connected at the roots. How do you communicate to the world what you believe in? By thinking, growing and making and letting your work speak for itself. Also helpful? Wearing this shirt. • • • Our men’s tees are slim fitting. If you prefer looser-fitting tees, we recommend you size up one size. • • • When it comes to Root & Ramble t-shirts, cotton is our BFF (Best Favorite Fabric). Your Thinker, Grower, Maker T-Shirt is a premium-quality, slim-fitting tee. It is made using the finest gauge of smooth, 100% combed and ring-spun cotton threads. Side seam construction enhances structure for great comfort and cut. • • • We believe in minimal impact and we don’t support sweatshops. Our shirts have been cut and sewn in a 100% solar-powered, worker-friendly, American facility that recycles and repurposes all unused sewing materials. It was lovingly crafted by a woman who thinks, grows and makes in Richmond, Virginia.A great gift for your favorite thinker, grower, maker person 🙂
    Slim fitting style; for a looser fit, order up one size
    Premium, super-soft 100% combed and ring-spun cotton
    Screen-printed with water-based inks (no PVC, no phthalate)
    Cut, sewn, designed and printed in the USA

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  • When The Grid Goes Down: Disaster Preparations and Survival Gear For Making Your Home Self-Reliant

    When The Grid Goes Down: Disaster Preparations and Survival Gear For Making Your Home Self-Reliant

    Disasters come and go each year. It is through developing a self-reliant mindset, having essential survival gear and a handful of critical skills, that you and your family will be able to prevail in an urban crisis. Jammed with field-tested information from real-world applications, survival instructor Tony Nester covers how to prepare for both short-term…;

    Disasters come and go each year. It is through developing a self-reliant mindset, having essential survival gear and a handful of critical skills, that you and your family will be able to prevail in an urban crisis. Jammed with field-tested information from real-world applications, survival instructor Tony Nester covers how to prepare for both short-term survival ranging from 24-72 hours as well as long-term situations resulting from a grid-down emergency or pandemic. When the Grid Goes Down will show you how to make your home and lifestyle more self-sufficient and the critical gear needed along the way. Topics include: The 6 Key Areas for Creating a Self-Reliant Home, Water Storage and Purification Methods, Alternative Water Sources At Home, Creating a Water Map for Your Region, The 3 Essential Food Types to Stock Up On, Designing an Off-Grid Medical Kit, Home Security and Personal Defense Measures, Safeguarding the Exterior and Interior of Your Home, Heating, Cooling and Lighting When the Power Goes Out, and Alternative Sanitation and Hygiene Methods.

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  • Mens The Homesteading Prepper: Plant Whisperer Medium Kelly Green

    Mens The Homesteading Prepper: Plant Whisperer Medium Kelly Green

    This entry is in the series Top Tees (T-shirts)

    cotton relaxed fit tshirtLightweight, Classic fit, Double-needle sleeve and bottom hem;

    cotton relaxed fit tshirt
    Lightweight, Classic fit, Double-needle sleeve and bottom hem

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  • How To Make Money Beekeeping: This Book Will Tell You Everything You Need To Know To Start Prosperous Beekeeping Career

    How To Make Money Beekeeping: This Book Will Tell You Everything You Need To Know To Start Prosperous Beekeeping Career

    How To Make Money Beekeeping: This Book Will Tell You Everything You Need To Know To Start Prosperous Beekeeping Career This book, How to Make Money Beekeeping, is a great guide for first-time beekeepers. It will also provide a great refresher course for those beekeepers that are having trouble making profit out of their beekeeping…;

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    How To Make Money Beekeeping:

    This Book Will Tell You Everything You Need To Know To Start Prosperous Beekeeping Career

    This book, How to Make Money Beekeeping, is a great guide for first-time beekeepers. It will also provide a great refresher course for those beekeepers that are having trouble making profit out of their beekeeping projects.

    The book has got all the basic information you need to prepare for beekeeping, and also to help you in actual bee rearing. It also has valuable information on how best to market your bee products. In this book, you will learn that bees are not the dreaded insects that ordinary folk fear, but valuable insects that can be handled safely. You will also learn that you do not need advanced education in matters of agriculture for you to run a successful beekeeping business.

    This book has sections for everything you need to know about beekeeping, including the different income streams that are readily available for you, once you begin rearing bees. Read on…

    Download your E book “How To Make Money Beekeeping: This Book Will Tell You Everything You Need To Know To Start Prosperous Beekeeping Career” by scrolling up and clicking “Buy Now with 1-Click” button!

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  • The Prepper’s Cookbook: 300 Recipes to Turn Your Emergency Food into Nutritious, Delicious, Life-Saving Meals

    The Prepper’s Cookbook: 300 Recipes to Turn Your Emergency Food into Nutritious, Delicious, Life-Saving Meals

    This entry is in the series Best Kitchen & Cook Books

    STOCK YOUR PANTRY TO SURVIVE ANY DISASTERWhen a catastrophic collapse cripples society, grocery store shelves will empty within days. But if you follow this book’s plan for stocking, organizing and maintaining a proper emergency food supply, your family will have plenty to eat for weeks, months or even years, with meals such as:* French Toast*…;

    STOCK YOUR PANTRY TO SURVIVE ANY DISASTER
    When a catastrophic collapse cripples society, grocery store shelves will empty within days. But if you follow this book’s plan for stocking, organizing and maintaining a proper emergency food supply, your family will have plenty to eat for weeks, months or even years, with meals such as:
    * French Toast
    * Black Bean Soup
    * Chicken Pot Pie
    * Beef Stroganoff
    * Fish Tacos
    * Potatoes Croquette
    * Asian Ramen Salad
    * Quinoa Tabouli
    * Rice Pilaf
    * Buttermilk Biscuits
    * Peach Cobbler
    Packed with tips for off-grid cooking, canning charts for over 20 fruits and vegetables, and checklists for the best emergency pantry items, The Prepper’s Cookbook will have you turning shelf-stable, freeze-dried and dehydrated foods into delicious, nutritious dishes your family will love eating.

    The Prepper’s Cookbook: 300 Recipes to Turn Your Emergency Food into Nutritious, Delicious, Life-Saving Meals by Tess Pennington (Apr 9, 2013)

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  • Homesteading Animals (3): Gourmet Geese – Raising Geese For Meat, Eggs and Feather Pillows!

    Homesteading Animals (3): Gourmet Geese – Raising Geese For Meat, Eggs and Feather Pillows!

    Gourmet Geese is an introduction to rearing Geese for meat, eggs or down by Best-selling author Norman J Stone. There are many reasons as to why you should consider raising these wonderful animals, and not just for their ‘produce’ they also make great companions, grass mowers and early warning systems – and they can live…;

    Gourmet Geese is an introduction to rearing Geese for meat, eggs or down by Best-selling author Norman J Stone.
    There are many reasons as to why you should consider raising these wonderful animals, and not just for their ‘produce’ they also make great companions, grass mowers and early warning systems – and they can live for over 20 years! A fairly hardy animal, the Goose is easy to look after as long as you have the space for them to graze and forage.
    In this ‘Homesteading Animals’ the third in the series; Norman presents a selection of the most popular domestic breeds, along with general care advice to enable you to keep good healthy and productive birds.
    If you are keeping Geese for meat, then knowledge of how to go about dispatching and dressing the bird is a necessary part of animal husbandry. This is covered in the last section of this introduction to rearing Geese – book 3.

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  • Teaming with Nutrients: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition

    Teaming with Nutrients: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition

    Just as he demystified the soil food web in his ground-breaking book Teaming with Microbes, in this new work Jeff Lowenfels explains the basics of plant nutrition from an organic gardener’s perspective. Where Teaming with Microbes used adeptly used microbiology; Teaming with Nutrients employs cellular biology. Most gardeners realize that plants need to be fed…;

    Just as he demystified the soil food web in his ground-breaking book Teaming with Microbes, in this new work Jeff Lowenfels explains the basics of plant nutrition from an organic gardener’s perspective. Where Teaming with Microbes used adeptly used microbiology; Teaming with Nutrients employs cellular biology.

    Most gardeners realize that plants need to be fed but know little or nothing about the nature of the nutrients involved or how they get into plants. Teaming with Nutrients explains how nutrients move into plants and what  both macro-nutrients and micro-nutrients do once inside. It shows organic gardeners how to provide these essentials. To fully understand how plants eat, Lowenfels uses his ability to make science accessible with lessons in the biology, chemistry, and botany all gardeners need to understand how nutrients get to the plant and what they do once they’re inside the plant.

    Teaming with Nutrients will open your eyes to the importance of understanding the role of nutrients in healthy, productive organic gardens and it will show you how these nutrients do their jobs. In short, it will make you a better informed, more successful and more environmentally responsible gardener.

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  • Food Storage: Preserving Meat, Dairy, and Eggs

    Food Storage: Preserving Meat, Dairy, and Eggs

    This entry is in the series Best Food Storage Books

    There are a lot of books about food preserving but what sets this book apart is that each food and all the methods for preserving that particular food are described in their own chapters. Find the food or preserving method in the table of contents that you want to learn about and go right to…;

    There are a lot of books about food preserving but what sets this book apart is that each food and all the methods for preserving that particular food are described in their own chapters. Find the food or preserving method in the table of contents that you want to learn about and go right to that section. The active Table of Contents on the kindle version allows you to click on a subject and go right to it. The book includes parts I and II:

    Part I is an explanation of all the preserving methods, how to do them, and what you’ll need: Canning, Dehydrating, Freezing, Salting, Brining, Sugaring, Smoking, Pickling, and Fermenting, as well as some not-as-often heard of ones as Ash, Oil, and Honey for preservation.

    Part II starts with meat and works it’s way through beef/venison/elk, pork/bear, goat/sheep, rabbit, chicken, turkey, duck/goose, and fish; then dairy: milk, butter, cheeses, yogurt and sour cream, and finishes with a chapter on preserving eggs. All the methods that work well with each food are explained along with directions for the preparation and processing of that food. There is also information about what doesn’t work and why.

    The next volumes, “Food Storage: Preserving Fruits, Nuts, and Seeds” and “Food Storage: Preserving Vegetables, Grains, and Beans” are also available in print and kindle format, exclusively from amazon.com, and are set up in the same handy-to-use format. Or save money and buy the compilation of all three volumes in one handy book, “Food Storage: Preserving Everything, Every Way”, available July 2015.

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  • Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History

    Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History

    Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity between the public’s perception of homesteading as a cherished part of our national narrative and most scholars’ harshly negative and dismissive treatment.Homesteading the Plains…;

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    Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity between the public’s perception of homesteading as a cherished part of our national narrative and most scholars’ harshly negative and dismissive treatment.

    Homesteading the Plains reexamines old data and draws from newly available digitized records to reassess the current interpretation’s four principal tenets: homesteading was a minor factor in farm formation, with most Western farmers purchasing their land; most homesteaders failed to prove up their claims; the homesteading process was rife with corruption and fraud; and homesteading caused Indian land dispossession. Using data instead of anecdotes and focusing mainly on the nineteenth century, Homesteading the Plains demonstrates that the first three tenets are wrong and the fourth only partially true. In short, the public’s perception of homesteading is perhaps more accurate than the one scholars have constructed.

    Homesteading the Plains provides the basis for an understanding of homesteading that is startlingly different from current scholarly orthodoxy.
     

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  • Little House Living: The Make-Your-Own Guide to a Frugal, Simple, and Self-Sufficient Life

    Little House Living: The Make-Your-Own Guide to a Frugal, Simple, and Self-Sufficient Life

    From the immensely popular blogger behind Little House Living comes a motivational homemaking book, inspired by Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie, featuring creative, fun ways to live your life simply and frugally—perfect for fans of Ree Drummond’s The Pioneer Woman.Shortly after getting married, Merissa Alink and her husband found themselves with nothing…;

    From the immensely popular blogger behind Little House Living comes a motivational homemaking book, inspired by Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie, featuring creative, fun ways to live your life simply and frugally—perfect for fans of Ree Drummond’s The Pioneer Woman.

    Shortly after getting married, Merissa Alink and her husband found themselves with nothing in their pantry but a package of spaghetti and some breadcrumbs. Their life had hit rock bottom, and it was only after a touching act of charity that they were able to get on their feet again.

    Inspired by this gesture of kindness as well as the beloved Little House on the Prairie books, Merissa found that a life of self-sufficiency and simplicity could be charming and blissful. She set out to live an entirely made-from-scratch life, the “Little House” way, and as a result, she slashed her household budget by nearly half—saving thousands of dollars a year. She started to write about homesteading, homemaking, and cooking from scratch, and over the next few years developed the recipes and DIY projects that would one day become part of her now beloved website, LittleHouseLiving.com.

    As whole foods became staples of the family diet, Merissa realized the dangers of putting overly processed ingredients not only into our bodies, but on or near them as well. In addition to countless delicious, home-cooked meals, she developed natural, easy-to-make recipes for everything from sunscreen to taco seasoning mix, lemon poppy hand scrub to furniture polish. With their simple ingredients, these recipes are allergen friendly and many are gluten-free.

    With over 130 practical, simple DIY recipes, gorgeous full-color photographs, and Merissa’s trademark charm in personal stories and tips, Little House Living is the epitome of heartland warmth and prairie inspiration.Little House Living The Make Your Own Guide to a Frugal Simple and Self Sufficient Life

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