Product Description: With skyrocketing food prices, lower product availability, and an increasing amount of food-born illnesses associated with mass produced foods, wouldn't it be great to produce your own safe, wholesome foods for your family? Would you like to offset rising fuel prices by safely and securely burning wood to heat your home and cook your meals? "Today's Homestead" will teach you how! Within these volumes you'll learn how to raise your own beef, extract your own honey, and manage your own orchard. If you've ever wanted to know how to braid your own rugs, or make your own yeast, how to pick a healthy calf at the sale barn, or incubate your own turkey eggs, it's all included in these books. Whether you have one acre or one hundred acres, "Today's Homestead" can help you be more self-sufficient. Volume 1 of "Today's Homestead" has all the basics, from home food preservation to proper food storage, as well as basic cheese making, soap making, and candle making, including how to make a cheese press, or candle dipping frame. "Today's Homestead" is the complete guide to homesteading for a more secure future in these increasingly insecure times.
Wonderful First Book Great beginning book that is helpful and informative not just for those who are interested in a homestead, but simply want to be more self-reliant and prepared. This opening volume contains many specific ideas and how-to's that can be turned into practical and useful skills that for most of us have been lost to history. Soap making, candle making, homemade bread making, food freezing, dehydration & canning, food storage basics, natural remedies and other basic subjects are presented in easy to understand language. Hopefully, future volumes will be as wonderful as this one!
A must have This book is an absolute must have for anyone interested in living a self reliant lifestyle. I'm excited to try making butter and cheeses for my family. Looking forward to the next 2 volumes.
A packed little book! This book is just packed with useful information. It would serve anyone interested in living a more self sufficient life. We've only daydreamed about making cheddar cheese, and soap, and we've never even thought about making our own yeast, but with this book to guide us, we're going to give it a try! We can't wait for the next volume in the series to be released, but, thanks to volume I, we have a lot of things to keep us busy until then.
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