52 homestead skills A self-taught homesteader's one-year journey to learning a skill a week

Kimberlee Bastien

Book - 2018

"Mother Earth News provides unique voices from those homesteaders - rural and urban - who have built mastery through experience and are eager to share their successes with you. One of those voices is Kimberlee Bastien, who challenged herself to learn one homestead skill per week for a full year. Bastien shares what she learned through in 52 Homestead Skills, as she details her adventures with making mozzarella cheese, learning to knit, building a beehive and becoming a beekeeper, raising ducks and chickens, planting fruit trees and saving seeds, and creating her own healthy alternatives to laundry soap, dish soap, cough syrup, and more. Kimberlee emphasizes that if you want to start your own homestead, just dive in and do it! "The... learning never ends," says Bastien. "And that's OK. Because life without a challenge would be BORING." Mother Earth News is delighted to offer you a template for your homesteading adventure from Kimberlee, who will not only teach you practical homesteading skills, but how to turn your homesteading dreams into a life worth living."--Amazon.com. more