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| Author | : Lloyd Kahn |
| Publisher | : Shelter Publications |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 2020-03-03 |
| Genre | : Cooking |
| ISBN | : 9780936070810 |
Lloyd Kahn and Lesley's story of building their own home, establishing a garden, and practicing crafts on a small piece of land on the Northern California Coast, with over 500 photos.
| Author | : Barrett Williams |
| Publisher | : Barrett Williams |
| Total Pages | : 97 |
| Release | : 2024-07-08 |
| Genre | : House & Home |
| ISBN | : |
Discover the ultimate guide to self-sufficiency and sustainable living with "Homesteading in California." This comprehensive eBook empowers you to transform your everyday life by tapping into the rich opportunities California offers for homesteading. Begin your journey with an insightful introduction to California's diverse climate zones, highlighting the benefits and challenges unique to the Golden State. Whether you're eyeing a cozy plot in the verdant valleys or a sun-drenched hillside, this guide helps you make informed decisions on land selection and soil preparation, ensuring your homestead is set up for success right from the start. Unveil expert strategies for water management and conservation, from innovative rainwater harvesting techniques to building efficient retention ponds. Master the art of growing fresh, organic vegetables through a detailed seasonal planting guide and explore the best fruit trees and grape varieties for your own orchard or vineyard. Dive into the joy of raising backyard poultry, discover the nuances of small-scale dairy farming, and embark on the sweet endeavor of beekeeping. Each chapter provides step-by-step instructions and practical advice to help you manage livestock health, build essential structures, and produce homegrown dairy and honey. Explore sustainable energy solutions with chapters on solar power, wind turbines, and micro-hydro systems tailored to homestead needs. Learn about eco-friendly building techniques that promote long-term sustainability and efficient waste management. "Cultivate a holistic lifestyle with chapters dedicated to forage native plants, preserve your harvest through canning and dehydrating, and create a well-equipped homestead workshop. Engage your family and community, and build a supportive network to share skills and resources. Finally, tackle the practicalities of homesteading with chapters on financial planning, legal considerations, and strategies for long-term sustainability. This indispensable guide is packed with resources for continued learning, ensuring your homesteading journey is both successful and rewarding. Transform your dream of sustainable living into reality with "Homesteading in California" â the essential resource for modern-day homesteaders.
| Author | : Josh Sides |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2021-04 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1496225481 |
California is an infamously tough place to be poor: home to about half of the entire nation's homeless population, burdened by staggering home prices and unsustainable rental rates, California is a state in crisis. But it wasn't always that way, as prize-winning historian Josh Sides reveals in Backcountry Ghosts. In 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, the most ambitious and sweeping social policy in the history of the United States. In the Golden State more than a hundred thousand people filed homesteading claims between 1863 and the late 1930s. More than sixty thousand Californians succeeded, claiming about ten million acres. In Backcountry Ghosts Josh Sides tells the histories of these Californian homesteaders, their toil and enormous patience, successes and failures, doggedness in the face of natural elements and disasters, and resolve to defend hard-earned land for themselves and their children. While some of these homesteaders were fulfilling the American Dream--that all Americans should have the opportunity to own land regardless of their background or station--others used the Homestead Act to add to already vast landholdings or control water or mineral rights. Sides recovers the fascinating stories of individual homesteaders in California, both those who succeeded and those who did not, and the ways they shaped the future of California and the American West. Backcountry Ghosts reveals the dangers of American dreaming in a state still reeling from the ambitions that led to the Great Recession.
| Author | : Jill Winger |
| Publisher | : Flatiron Books |
| Total Pages | : 538 |
| Release | : 2019-04-02 |
| Genre | : Cooking |
| ISBN | : 1250305942 |
Jill Winger, creator of the award-winning blog The Prairie Homestead, introduces her debut The Prairie Homestead Cookbook, including 100+ delicious, wholesome recipes made with fresh ingredients to bring the flavors and spirit of homestead cooking to any kitchen table. With a foreword by bestselling author Joel Salatin The Pioneer Woman Cooks meets 100 Days of Real Food, on the Wyoming prairie. While Jill produces much of her own food on her Wyoming ranch, you don’t have to grow all—or even any—of your own food to cook and eat like a homesteader. Jill teaches people how to make delicious traditional American comfort food recipes with whole ingredients and shows that you don’t have to use obscure items to enjoy this lifestyle. And as a busy mother of three, Jill knows how to make recipes easy and delicious for all ages. "Jill takes you on an insightful and delicious journey of becoming a homesteader. This book is packed with so much easy to follow, practical, hands-on information about steps you can take towards integrating homesteading into your life. It is packed full of exciting and mouth-watering recipes and heartwarming stories of her unique adventure into homesteading. These recipes are ones I know I will be using regularly in my kitchen." - Eve Kilcher These 109 recipes include her family’s favorites, with maple-glazed pork chops, butternut Alfredo pasta, and browned butter skillet corn. Jill also shares 17 bonus recipes for homemade sauces, salt rubs, sour cream, and the like—staples that many people are surprised to learn you can make yourself. Beyond these recipes, The Prairie Homestead Cookbook shares the tools and tips Jill has learned from life on the homestead, like how to churn your own butter, feed a family on a budget, and experience all the fulfilling satisfaction of a DIY lifestyle.
| Author | : Rachel Kaplan |
| Publisher | : Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2011-04-27 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 161608054X |
A comprehensive and inspiring guide to self-reliance, sustainability, and green living for city dwellers. Read it and..
| Author | : Ben Falk |
| Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 323 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : Gardening |
| ISBN | : 1603584447 |
The Resilient Farm and Homestead is a manual for developing durable, beautiful, and highly functional human habitat systems fit to handle an age of rapid transition. Ben Falk is a land designer and site developer whose permaculture-research farm has drawn national attention. The site is a terraced paradise on a hillside in Vermont that would otherwise be overlooked by conventional farmers as unworthy farmland. Falk's wide array of fruit trees, rice paddies (relatively unheard of in the Northeast), ducks, nuts, and earth-inspired buildings is a hopeful image for the future of regenerative agriculture and modern homesteading. The book covers nearly every strategy Falk and his team have been testing at the Whole Systems Research Farm over the past decade, as well as experiments from other sites Falk has designed through his off-farm consulting business. The book includes detailed information on earthworks; gravity-fed water systems; species composition; the site-design process; site management; fuelwood hedge production and processing; human health and nutrient-dense production strategies; rapid topsoil formation and remineralization; agroforestry/silvopasture/grazing; ecosystem services, especially regarding flood mitigation; fertility management; human labor and social-systems aspects; tools/equipment/appropriate technology; and much more, complete with gorgeous photography and detailed design drawings. The Resilient Farm and Homestead is more than just a book of tricks and techniques for regenerative site development, but offers actual working results in living within complex farm-ecosystems based on research from the "great thinkers" in permaculture, and presents a viable home-scale model for an intentional food-producing ecosystem in cold climates, and beyond. Inspiring to would-be homesteaders everywhere, but especially for those who find themselves with "unlikely" farming land, Falk is an inspiration in what can be done by imitating natural systems, and making the most of what we have by re-imagining what's possible. A gorgeous case study for the homestead of the future.
| Author | : Justin Rhodes |
| Publisher | : Worthy Books |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2022-03-15 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 1546012583 |
A permaculture expert and popular YouTube Homesteader shares the skills and the delights of becoming a part of your own food story in this inspiring, accessible, and beautiful invitation to a more abundant, healthy, and connected life. Have you ever wanted to experiment with growing your own food but didn’t think you had the space, the time, or the knowledge? Justin Rhodes thought the same thing—until after years battling systemic illness and struggling to provide the kind of wholesome food he wanted for his family, he bought a seed packet at the grocery store and was hooked! Justin discovered the miraculous potential and empowerment of working with nature to grow food for his family, and since that discovery, he has shared his self-taught skills with hundreds of thousands of growers via his popular YouTube channel and website. Whether you're looking for greater food security, better health, tastier food, to save or earn money, connect with your food source, this book is for you. If you're looking for a different kind of life—a life focused on health and wellness—take a look down the road less traveled. Looking for every opportunity to pass his hard-earned knowledge onto others, Justin Rhodes created this inspiring and practical invitation to growing your own food and experiencing a more connected, sustainable lifestyle, no matter where you live or how much space you have. Filled with beautiful and inspiring photographs from the Rhodes’ homestead and chock full of resources, including gardening plans, everything you need to know about raising chickens, tips for how to get your kids involved, and even recipes for how to serve up your home-grown goodness, The Rooted Life provides you with the inspiration, the encouragement, and the practical wisdom that you need to begin the journey to a more rooted life.
| Author | : Etta Rose Knox |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 182 |
| Release | : 1984 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780940920033 |
A young wife, bewildered by her confused feelings for the handsome husband who dominates and humiliates her, struggles to find her own strength and make a life for herself in the desolate West of the 1930's.
| Author | : Living the Country Life |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 82 |
| Release | : 2017-07-25 |
| Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
| ISBN | : 1681882337 |
Once upon a time, people had a real connection with the land. Instead of being mere consumers, they were producers and makers. Traditional skills were learned to eliminate a reliance on others, enabling the self-sufficiency that's at the heart of the Do-It-Yourself movement. And this artisanal wisdom was passed on to family and friends.
| Author | : Christopher Nyerges |
| Publisher | : Chelsea Green Publishing Company |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Urban homesteading |
| ISBN | : 9781890132361 |
The authors present self-sufficient and ecological approaches to commonly defined areas of a household: The House, The Yard, Homegrown Foods (and wild edibles), Domestic Animals, The Garden, Water, Energy, and Recycling.
