Homesteading Skills

Learn how to launch your homesteading endeavors successfully and steer clear of costly rookie errors.

Are you considering relocating to a rural farm but are unsure where to begin?

Accomplish you want to increase your degree of self-sufficiency but don't know how to do it since you live in a small city apartment?

Consider what life would be like if you were not dependent on municipal water or power grids (or pay those expensive bills every month).

Not to mention the satisfaction and health advantages of growing your own organic food rather than being compelled to purchase food from the shop that has been laced with harmful chemicals and pesticides.

Does that seem like a lot of work to you?

You are correct. It is.

If you're a complete newbie, it may take weeks or even months to plan your homesteading trip.

You would have to invest hundreds of dollars in consultations, read multiple books, and conduct extensive research online.

Even with all of your preparation, there is no assurance that you won't forget something important. Missing this thing would break your budget and make you wish you hadn't started it in the first place.

Typically, new homesteaders make mistakes, lose money, learn from their mistakes, and then spend more money to make things right.

Numerous readers have used Back to Basics as a source of motivation and knowledge, escaping to a time before fast food chains and power saws, and rediscovering the rewards and difficulties of living a healthier, more environmentally friendly, and self-sufficient existence.

Back to Basics, which has just been updated, contains hundreds of tasks, step-by-step instructions, pictures, charts, and illustrations that will teach you how to graft trees, keep chickens, build a hutch table using simple tools, and prepare goodies like blueberry peach jam and cheddar cheese. The extremely ambitious will discover guides on how to construct an adobe brick homestead or a log cottage.