The Homesteader's Natural Chicken Keeping Handbook

The Homesteader's Natural Chicken Keeping Handbook

Author: Amy K. Fewell

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-05-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1493037404

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TheHomesteader’s Natural Chicken Keeping Handbook is the modern homesteader’s guide to raising, feeding, breeding, selling, and enjoying the noblest animal on the farm—the chicken. From the rooster’s crow in the morning, to the warm egg in the nesting box, chickens are the gateway livestock for almost every homesteader and backyard farm enthusiast. In this book, you’ll learn everything you need to know about raising chickens naturally. Fewell guides you in: understanding why chickens do what they do creating your very own poultry or egg business preventing and treating ailments with herbal remedies setting up your property, coop, and brooder hatching chicks purchasing chickens properly cooking delicious recipes with your farm fresh eggs and poultry. This is heritage chicken keeping skills 101, with a modern twist. Not only will you gain knowledge about naturally keeping chickens through every stage of their lives, but you’ll fully embrace the joy and ease of raising all-natural chickens on your homestead.


The Homesteader's Herbal Companion

The Homesteader's Herbal Companion

Author: Amy K. Fewell

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-04-15

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1493034162

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The Homesteader’s Herbal Companion is a beautiful guide for the modern day homesteader. From learning how to incorporate herbs and essential oils around your home, to learning how to enhance your family’s health and well-being, this book is the go-to resource for those wishing to live a more natural homesteading lifestyle. This book takes readers through the basics of herbalism, including the different types of herbs and their uses. It also breaks down how herbs are used in tinctures, salves, essential oils, and infused oils. You’ll learn how to efficiently incorporate herbs into your lifestyle, creating your own herbal remedy cabinet for yourself and for your livestock as well. And through encouragement and evidence-based information, you’ll be confident using herbs, cooking with herbs, and sharing your herbal products with your friends and family. With an array of beautiful photos and easy to read terminology, just about any homesteader, new or seasoned, can learn from The Homesteader’s Herbal Companion, and finally feel comfortable incorporating the many wonderful qualities of herbs around their homes and homesteads.


The Artisan Herbalist

The Artisan Herbalist

Author: Bevin Cohen

Publisher: New Society Publishers

Published: 2021-04-06

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1771423471

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Start your journey as an artisan herbalist and take back control of your health and well-being the natural way with this accessible guide. From urban apartments to wild countryside, The Artisan Herbalist is an easy-to-use guide that teaches you how to identify, grow, harvest, forage, and craft herbal allies into an assortment of useful health and wellness products. Through storytelling and step-by-step instruction, The Artisan Herbalist covers: The uses and benefits of thirty-eight easy-to-find yet powerful herbs Harvesting from the wild, foraging in the city, and using store-bought herbs Growing herbs in small areas, balconies, and pots Principles, tips, techniques, and formulas to create teas and tinctures Infusing oils for the creation of salves, lotions, and balms Beneficial herb-based recipes Marketing and selling your products through a home-based business Whether you live in the city, suburbs, or countryside, take back control of your health and begin your journey toward independent self-care as a budding artisan herbalist. Praise for The Artisan Herbalist Winner, 2022 International Book Award, Health: Alternative Medicine “A thoroughly delightful, practical, and well-organized introduction to the uses of plants as medicine and food.” —Rosemary Gladstar herbalist and author, Rosemary Gladstar’s Medicinal Herbs “A masterpiece! Not only is this book beautiful, but it is highly useful. . . . This is the book every beginner herbalist should have on hand to start on their herbal path.” —Kristine Brown RH (AHG), author, Herbal Roots zine, Herbalism at Home, The Homesteader’s Guide to Growing Herbs, and Nature Anatomy Activities for Kids


The Prairie Homestead Cookbook

The Prairie Homestead Cookbook

Author: Jill Winger

Publisher: Flatiron Books

Published: 2019-04-02

Total Pages: 538

ISBN-13: 1250305942

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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.


Homesteading

Homesteading

Author: Abigail Gehring

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

Published: 2009-11

Total Pages: 463

ISBN-13: 1602397473

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For readers who want to shrink their carbon footprint, save money, and eat homegrown food whenever possible, this large, fully-illustrated guide--and companion to the bestseller "Back to Basics"--provides the basics of living a good, clean life.


Llewellyn's Little Book of Herbs

Llewellyn's Little Book of Herbs

Author: Holly Bellebuono

Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide

Published: 2020-04-08

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 0738762784

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Featuring recipes, helpful exercises, practical gardening tips, stories, and advice for creating herbal medicines, this fun, hardcover book is an ideal resource for gardeners and aspiring herbalists. Discover the secrets of planting and growing herbs, identifying the best ones for your goals, and more. Drawing from twenty-six years of experience, herbalist Holly Bellebuono presents a refreshing approach to learning about and using these versatile plants. You'll find lists of herbs suitable for beginners, unusual yet noteworthy herbs, wild herbs to allow to grow, and herbs to avoid planting. This convenient book shows you the wonders of herb use from beginning to end—from seeds and stalks to teas and salves.


Herbal First Aid and Health Care

Herbal First Aid and Health Care

Author: Kyle D. Christensen

Publisher: Lotus Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780914955900

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This book includes detailed protocols in treating first aid emergencies as well as protocols for not so urgent care. Detailed instructions are provided on how to make your own potent herbal remedies at home. A chapter on growing and harvesting your own herbs is included.


Backyard Homesteading

Backyard Homesteading

Author: David Toht

Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing

Published: 2017-04-01

Total Pages: 523

ISBN-13: 1607654415

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A simple guide to growing fruits, vegetables, nuts & berries, raising chickens, goats, & bees, and making beer, wine, & cider from your backyard. If you want to take control of the food you eat and the products you use, Backyard Homesteading will help you learn how to do it—even if you live in an urban or suburban house on a typical-size lot. Inside, you’ll discover how to turn a yard into a productive and wholesome “homestead” that allows you to grow your own fruits and vegetables and raise farm animals, including chickens and goats. You’ll also find the laws and regulations of raising livestock in populated areas, as well as ways to use and preserve the bounty your land produces. GETTING STARTED Benefits of pure food Family recreation Local regulations Potential yields and savings RAISING VEGETABLES AND HERBS Garden planning/layout Structures/irrigation Vegetable profiles Planting techniques Composting/healthy soil Seasonal gardening GROWING FRUITS, BERRIES, AND NUTS Planting fruit trees and bushes Fruit profiles Organic pest control Grafting and pruning Harvesting methods RAISING CHICKENS The joy of chickens Collecting eggs Care and feeding tips Other small animals RAISING GOATS Benefits of goat milk Structures/fencing Care and feeding tips Other large animals BEEKEEPING Benefits of beekeeping Care and harvesting Building hives Collecting honey HARVEST HOME Canning/drying/freezing Making beer, wine, cider Making jerky, sausage Making jams, jellies Pickling/salting/smoking Building root cellars


The Big Book of Backyard Medicine

The Big Book of Backyard Medicine

Author: Julie Bruton-Seal

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2020-03-03

Total Pages: 980

ISBN-13: 1510754628

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The Most Thorough Compilation of Home Cures and Remedies Yet! Years ago, every household practiced natural healing by using what they had. Plants grow abundantly all over our roadsides, cities, and in your own backyard, and though once valued and widely used, they've fallen out of fashion over time as people forget the numerous medicinal uses at our fingertips. This book brings alternative medicine back to the forefront. Researched and written by a practicing medical herbalist and natural healer, and now with even more herbs and medicinal plants, The Big Book of Backyard Medicine is the basis for a veritable natural pharmacy that anyone can create. Featuring one hundred specific plants and their associated remedies, and fully illustrated with hundreds of color photographs, this book offers fascinating insights into the literary, historic, botanical, and global applications of common wild plants and herbs that can be used in medicines, including: Ash Chicory Dandelion Forget-me-not Gypsywort Horseradish Mint Red Poppy Thistle Wild carrot Willow And so much more! Anyone who wants to improve his or her health in a completely natural way will find this book to be an absolute must-have for his or her home—and garden.


Back to Eden

Back to Eden

Author: Jethro Kloss

Publisher:

Published: 2011-10-01

Total Pages: 700

ISBN-13: 9781258126933

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"...set[s] forth his method of natural self healing based on herbs, a diet that used no meat, dairy products, or eggs, and a life in harmony with the laws of health and nature. He opposed the use of sugar, spices, pepper, mustard, vinegar, and fermented foods. He recommended the use of soymilk in numerous healing diets and considered it far better than cow's milk. " -- www.SoyinfoCenter.com.