The first-time homesteader : a complete beginner's guide to starting and loving your new homestead / Jessica Sowards.
The author guides you through the process of setting up your property (no matter how small or large), establishing a garden, welcoming animals into the fold, living more resourcefully, and expanding your homestead kitchen tools and skills with grace and confidence. Includes chapters on raising chickens, animal husbandry, growing a garden, home dairy production, bee keeping, resourceful living and homestead kitchen skills.
Record details
- ISBN: 0760372357
- ISBN: 9780760372357
- Physical Description: 192 pages : color illustrations, color photographs ; 26 cm
- Publisher: Beverly, MA : Cool Springs Press, 2022.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Raising chickens, animal husbandry, growing a garden, home dairy production, beekeeping, resourceful living, homestead kitchen skills."--Title page. Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Making a plan -- Yard birds -- Meat in the freezer -- The home dairy -- The homestead garden -- Keeping bees -- Resourceful living and natural remedies -- Homestead kitchen skills -- A simple and beautiful life. |
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| Subject: | Self-reliant living. Sustainable living. Farm life. |
| Genre: | Instructional and educational works. Illustrated works. |
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| Kemp Sugg Memorial Library | 640.286 (Text) | 58198070011484 | Adult Nonfiction | In transit | - |
| Moore County Library | 640.286 SOW (Text) | 48198000987830 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 05/07/2025 |
| Black Mountain Library | 640.286 SOW (Text) | 0020513395424 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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| Green River Branch | 640.286 S (Text) | 33258010375386 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Haywood County Main Library | 640 Sowards (Text) | 33115007708406 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | 640.286 S (Text) | 33258010375377 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Hope Mills Library | 640.286 S (Text) | 31781067708782 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 04/30/2025 |
| J.C. Holliday Library | 640.286 Sow (Text) | 810191001905241 | Adult New Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Lexington Public Library | 640.286 SOW (Text) | 25908008429107 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
