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Bibliographic Details

Title: Heirloom Skills: A Complete Guide to Modern Homesteading
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Publication Date: 2023
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1510775706
ISBN 13: 9781510775701
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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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.

Keep chickens
Grow and arrange flowers
Raise bees
Make soap
Grow fresh veggies
Can and ferment your produce
Make sourdough bread
And more!

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.

About the Author

Alva Herdevall is an urban designer. Together with Anders, she runs Krusenbergsodlarna, which sells home-grown flowers, honey, and vegetables. Anders Rydell is a writer, journalist, and editor-in-chief of the Swedish magazine F�rfattaren. Anders' books have been published in over 30 countries.

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The Friends of the Sierra Vista was founded in 1973 as a volunteer non-profit organization to support the Sierra Vista Public Library. We encourage the use of the library's resources and services, promote the value of the library to the community and provide supplementary funds. The funds generated from the sale of donated books, videos, records, etc. by the public, are used for the special needs not covered by the library's annual funding process. These special needs include: the Summer Reading Program for young people, Born to Read Program for newborns, support of the Raymond H. Dunne Trust Fund for Capital Improvements and purchases of technological equipment utilized by the library. We also donate books to various organizations such as the Veterans Administration Hospital and the Department of Corrections

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