Heirloom Skills: A Complete Guide to Modern Homesteading

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.