<p>No matter what your personal living-off-the-land dream looks like right now, and whether you have 100 acres all to yourself or you live in a city apartment, <strong>Pioneering Skills for Everyone: Modern Homesteading</strong> will bring you closer to that dream than you ever thought possible. In 24 exciting lessons with in-field demonstrations, you will learn how to grow a wide variety of produce in raised bed gardens or in back porch containers, the basics of soapmaking, how to pickle or ferment vegetables, the fundamental hand tools you will need for any project, and so much more.</p>
Overview
Syllabus
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- 01: What Is Modern Homesteading?
- 02: Keeping Bees and Harvesting Honey
- 03: Raising Goats on Your Homestead
- 04: Milking Goats and Making Cheese
- 05: Processing and Butchering Goats for Meat
- 06: Raising Chickens on Your Homestead
- 07: Fencing for Livestock and Gardens
- 08: Grapevines and Small Vineyards
- 09: How to Make Homemade Wine
- 10: Fundamentals of Gardening and Soil
- 11: Vegetable Gardening Made Easy
- 12: Greenhouse and Hoop House Gardening
- 13: Seeds, Seedlings, and Transplants
- 14: Generators, Solar Power, and Water Wells
- 15: Preserving Food by Canning
- 16: Preserving Food by Dehydrating and Freezing
- 17: Preserving Food by Pickling and Fermenting
- 18: How to Make Homemade Soap
- 19: How to Make Homemade Candles
- 20: Processing and Butchering Animals for Food
- 21: Laborsaving Power Tools on the Homestead
- 22: Some Favorite Hand Tools on the Homestead
- 23: Basics of Homestead Construction
- 24: Homestead Cooking from Everyday to Gourmet
Taught by
Greg Pryor