Small-Scale Homesteading: A Sustainable Guide to Gardening, Keeping Chickens, Maple Sugaring, Preserving the Harvest, and More [Paperback]

A gathering of information and source of inspiration for homesteaders everywhere.

With over thirty-five years of combined experience, homesteaders Stephanie Thurow and Michelle Bruhn have taught thousands of people across the globe how to garden, preserve food, tend backyard chickens, cook from scratch, and care for their families with natural homemade alternatives. Now, their homesteading knowledge and instruction can be found in one place withSmall-Scale Homesteading.

In this sustainable guide, learn how to grow your own food, tap maple trees to make gallons of homemade syrup, successfully raise a small flock of laying hens, and more. Other topics include:

• The benefits of small-scale homesteading and its local impacts
• Soil health and composting
• Keeping chickens
• Planning a vegetable garden using annuals and perennials
• DIY recipes and projects for the home and garden
• Seed saving and planting tips
• Handmade candles, soaps, lotions, and cleaning solutions
• Companion and succession planting
• How to extend your growing season
• Explanation of approved food preservation methods and supplied needed
• Maple sugaring
• And so much more!

Merging insight from two homesteaders proves to be twice the fun and reminds us that working together is always better.Stephanie Thurowis a Certified Master Food Preserver and Master Gardener Volunteer from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is a homesteader, author of bestselling cookbooksCan It & Ferment It,WECK Small-Batch Preserving, andWECK Home Preservingand creator of theMinnesota from Scratchblog.Stephanie hopes her experience with homesteading will help others reach more of their goals. When she isn’t in the kitchen preserving, she can be found in the garden with her hens, teaching food preservation classes, or at the lake with her family and friends.

Michelle B