Heirloom Skills: A Complete Guide to Modern Homesteading
Heirloom Skills: A Complete Guide to Modern Homesteading
Heirloom Skills: A Complete Guide to Modern Homesteading
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Description
Description
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!
About the Author
About the Author
Alva Herdevall is an urban designer. Together with Anders, she runs Krusenbergsodlarna, which sells home-grown flowers, honey, and vegetables. Anders Rydell is a writer, journalist, and editor-in-chief of the Swedish magazine Författaren. Anders' books have been published in over 30 countries.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
**Customer Reviews** "Good Homesteading book is easy reading, lots of pictures, and easy directions. Great book, wrapped nicely. I purchased it for a friend, and I know she will enjoy reading it and learning different ways of canning preserving canned tomatoes etc."
--Alicia A. Pugh "This book helps! Very helpful insights. We are a city couple who moved to the country to slow down and live a purposeful life. This book helps! I highly recommend."
--Amazon Customer "Heirloom Skills Book. I purchased Heirloom Skills as a gift for my DOL. Shes into homesteading. This book is put together well. Hard cover bound. Pictures and illustrations that clearly explain and show what's being discussed. Lots of topics discussed. My DIL said she's read the whole book and has used many of the topics explained. Definitely a great purchase and great value for its purchase price."
--Linda "Nice articles and photos. Got this as a gift for my daughter in law and she loved it."
--Reba "Love it. This book is great for beginners! Some of the info is basic, which is great, but I need more in certain subjects. And some of the chapters cover things I know nothing about or have been trying to learn. The writing is almost poetic and the photos are beautiful. It's a wonderful read and makes for a great display."
--Kitty Brown "Lots of information! As a beginner homesteader this is so helpful ! ALOT of information"
--Amazon Customer "Homesteaders Book. Great Book recommendation for homesteaders"
--id110011 "Great gift. Got as a gift, they loved it"
--isaiah "Good book. Nice to have a good book around to read and reference!"
--Griffin collector "Great general overview of getting back to the basics! Very useful info. Easy to understand and good range of subjects."
--Paula "So excited. I'm thrilled I got this book, excited to make soaps and try to be self- sufficient. Covers a lot of areas of life. Recipes for cleaning materials. Very happy with my purchase."
--Joshalyn "Love this! Love this!"
--Jessica Bischoff "Love this book! This book is very special. I am a collector of books and items that teach about lost skills or are antiques used to make things in the past. I have not seen a new book that teaches lost skills as clearly and with such beautiful imagery as this one."
--Amazon Customer "Past skills. It was interesting !"
--P. Renk
--Alicia A. Pugh "This book helps! Very helpful insights. We are a city couple who moved to the country to slow down and live a purposeful life. This book helps! I highly recommend."
--Amazon Customer "Heirloom Skills Book. I purchased Heirloom Skills as a gift for my DOL. Shes into homesteading. This book is put together well. Hard cover bound. Pictures and illustrations that clearly explain and show what's being discussed. Lots of topics discussed. My DIL said she's read the whole book and has used many of the topics explained. Definitely a great purchase and great value for its purchase price."
--Linda "Nice articles and photos. Got this as a gift for my daughter in law and she loved it."
--Reba "Love it. This book is great for beginners! Some of the info is basic, which is great, but I need more in certain subjects. And some of the chapters cover things I know nothing about or have been trying to learn. The writing is almost poetic and the photos are beautiful. It's a wonderful read and makes for a great display."
--Kitty Brown "Lots of information! As a beginner homesteader this is so helpful ! ALOT of information"
--Amazon Customer "Homesteaders Book. Great Book recommendation for homesteaders"
--id110011 "Great gift. Got as a gift, they loved it"
--isaiah "Good book. Nice to have a good book around to read and reference!"
--Griffin collector "Great general overview of getting back to the basics! Very useful info. Easy to understand and good range of subjects."
--Paula "So excited. I'm thrilled I got this book, excited to make soaps and try to be self- sufficient. Covers a lot of areas of life. Recipes for cleaning materials. Very happy with my purchase."
--Joshalyn "Love this! Love this!"
--Jessica Bischoff "Love this book! This book is very special. I am a collector of books and items that teach about lost skills or are antiques used to make things in the past. I have not seen a new book that teaches lost skills as clearly and with such beautiful imagery as this one."
--Amazon Customer "Past skills. It was interesting !"
--P. Renk
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub date:
2023-11-21
Length:
336 pages
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