The Women's Heritage Sourcebook: Bringing Homesteading to Everyday Life

About this book

The book of the movement that applies homegrown practices of self-sufficiency to modern life. 2020 BRONZE WINNER OF THE FOREWORD INDIES AWARD IN COOKING Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-reliance and sustainability characterized by home gardening and animal husbandry food preservation and even the small-scale production of textiles clothing and craftwork. This indispensable reference book is divided into three sections: food (from sourdough bread baking to pickling vegetables to fermenting kefir) herbalism (from growing an herbal garden to making skin and hair care products to foraging) and animal husbandry (from beekeeping to buying raising and owning chickens cows and pigs). Lavishly illustrated with 250 full-color photographs and full of detailed tips techniques and recipes this reference book is comfortable on the coffee table in your kitchen or even propped open for use in your backyard garden.