Heirloom Skills: A Complete Guide to Modern Homesteading

by Alva Herdevall, Alva Herdevall

100 ways to embrace the simple life, with step-by-step instructions for keeping chickens, growing vegetables, making beer and wine, arranging flowers, soap making, and more! This is a home-management book for the twenty-first century. Alva Herdevall and Anders Rydell combine traditional methods with modern ideas to show that a higher degree of self-sufficiency is possible for everyone. You will learn the secrets of beekeeping, how to grow your own cut flowers, and how to bake a perfect loaf of sourdough. Discover how easy it is to churn butter, make your own yogurt, and raise chickens for meat and eggs. Turn rhubarb stalks into refreshing summer wine, perfect your compost pile, and make decadent and nontoxic skin creams. Complete with gorgeous photos throughout, this book is sure to inspire you or the homesteader in your life to expand your repertoire of heirloom skills.  

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Gardening

336 pages, Hardcover

Published November 21, 2023

Reviews

[Christina Falkowski · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book contains a lot of helpful basic information. Authors came off as a bit sanctimonious.

[Kate Pipa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Enjoyed as a good resource for skills I’m interested in learning and doing more of myself at home. Saw this at the library and decided to take it out. Pictures were aesthetically pleasing and helpful and there were a nice array of topics covered.

[Kerea De La Cerda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wish there was a bit more on egg issues with chickens but great sourdough tips and recipes!!!! Love the all around skills provided in this one for being and all in one.

[Amanda Schneider]

Nice photography. Useless content.