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About the book
Holistic Homesteading: A Guide to a Sustainable and Regenerative Lifestyle is a book for people who want to be more mindful of their impact and who desire to take a more active approach in the production of the goods they consume. Wherever you are on your homesteading journey, this book has something for you. Learn to grow, forage, and preserve food, and also how to bake and cook with sourdough culture. There are even chapters on starting your own small business and how to choose your homestead if buying land is of interest to you.Â
In Chapter 1: Planning a Regenerative Future, you will brainstorm about your future and what possible regenerative business you might be interested in starting. In Chapter 2: Choosing Your Homestead: Site and Scale you will learn how to choose land if you deem it a necessary part of your goals, and possible pitfalls to avoid. In Chapter 3: Gardening For an Abundant Food Supply you will learn about methods for food production that work in harmony with nature. This chapter also examines how we could include more food production in urban and suburban spaces. In Chapter 4: Foraging, the basic how-tos of foraging and ethics are explained, and some specific forages are discussed. In Chapter 5: Food Preservation, the reader will get an introduction to canning, fermentation, freezing, freeze drying, dehydrating, curing, and root cellaring. In Chapter 6: Baking and Cooking with Sourdough Culture, Roxanne shares her method for starting and maintaining a sourdough culture, baking a delicious sourdough loaf, as well as her family’s favorite recipes for sourdough discard (like pancakes, waffles, pasta, and biscuits). She also shares how to dehydrate a sourdough culture, which can preserve it indefinitely. Also included is an additional resources section in which helpful books, films, podcasts, and social media accounts that can support you on your homesteading journey are offered for each chapter. All of this information is presented alongside beautiful photagraphy meant to delight and inspire.
Praise for Holistic Homesteading:
“If you want to live off the land and grow a regenerative homestead, this book is a great primer into essential steps: from siting your garden and understanding design principles to wild foraging and home preserves. Roxanne is full of good advice!”
– Zach Loeks, Director The Ecosystem Solution Institute and author of The Permaculture Market Garden and The Edible Ecosystem Solution
“In Holistic Homesteading Roxanne Ahern lays out the why and the how of living a more grounded and meaningful existence through the simple, beautiful, everyday acts of home production. It was once commonplace for our ancestors to mark the days and the seasons through the production happening in the home: the flush of the Summer garden, the work of storage in Autumn, the renewal and abundance of Spring, the simple dance between human culture and animal husbandry and the delicate care of the plant world. Holistic Homesteading invites us back in to participate in this most essential and meaningful of human tasks: the work and joy of making a living from the land and reveling in its abundance.”
– Dr. Ashley Colby, Environmental Sociologist, Director of Rizoma Field School, and author of Subsistence Agriculture in the US: Reconnecting to Work, Nature and Community
“Holistic Homesteading offers a wide array of information on finding land, starting a homestead, and enjoying the rhythms of a land-based lifestyle. Filled with practical tips and important things to consider along the way, it’s a perfect book for inspiration at any point in your homesteading journey.”
– Tao Orion, Resilience Permaculture Design, LLC Author of Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration
Just some of the things covered in this book:
-The ethics and principles of permaculture
– Chemical free pest control on the garden
– How to plant a fruit tree guild and what roles different plants play within the guild
– An extensive list of small homestead business ideas, many can be started with no land at all
– How to calculate the amount of rainwater that can be collected from a specific impermeable surface
-How to make your own shiitake mushroom logs
– Making a sourdough culture from scratch
– Step by step instructions on how to make a sourdough loaf
– All the tricks to make sure your pickles turn out crunchy and not soggy
– How to make kombucha and jun tea
– Making your own ginger bug so you can brew your own ginger ale and homemade sodas full of probiotic goodness
And so much more!
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