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The first-time homesteader : a complete beginner's guide to starting and loving your new homestead / Jessica Sowards.

Sowards, Jessica, (author.).

Summary:

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.
Subject: Self-reliant living.
Sustainable living.
Farm life.
Genre: Instructional and educational works.
Illustrated works.

Available copies

  • 11 of 15 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 0 of 2 copies available at Sandhill Regional Library.

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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

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500 . ‡a"Raising chickens, animal husbandry, growing a garden, home dairy production, beekeeping, resourceful living, homestead kitchen skills."--Title page.
500 . ‡aIncludes index.
5050 . ‡aIntroduction -- 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.
520 . ‡aThe 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.
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