Holiday Gift Giving? Think Books!

Discusses herbs, oils, beeswax, essential oils, why some herbal preparations don’t work, and how to make an effective salve. Included are simple, basic recipes for slave, lotion, lip balm and non-petroleum jelly. Regularly $2.49, now 99¢ at Smashwords with coupon code ZA53G.

This revised edition offers more ways to supplement your goats’ feed from home through gardening, foraging, feeding canning leftovers and kitchen scraps, small scale grain. pasture, and hay growing, stover, sprouting grain, hydroponic foddering, and more. Includes expanded and new lists of plants and goat goodies. Regularly $2.49, now 99¢ at Smashwords with coupon code WK58C.

How To Get Cream from Goat’s Milk: Make your own butter, whipped cream, ice cream, & more (revised edition)

Have you ever heard that goats’ milk is naturally homogenized? Is that true? This little eBook says no. It shows you how to test your goat milk for cream, various ways to collect it, and how to turn it into butter, whipped cream, sour cream, crème fraîche, and ice cream. Includes 8 recipes. Regularly $2.49, now 99¢ at Smashwords with coupon code HV95F.

Offers simple at-home tests for soil texture, stability, pH, drainage, and earthworm counts. Learn how to make your own pH paper, read soil colors, and what your plants can tell you about your soil. Includes charts, tables, glossary, further resources, and why all soil lab test results are not the same. A good resource for gardeners, homesteaders, homeschoolers, and budding soil scientists. Regularly $2.49, now 99¢ at Smashwords with coupon code VE54L.

And don’t forget my paperbacks. Most popular are my 5 Acres & Dream Homesteading Series. 

“The 5 Acres & A Dream homesteading series reveals the nitty-gritty, down-and-dirty realities of working toward a simpler, sustainable, more self-reliant lifestyle on a self-sufficient homestead. Leigh and Dan Tate had a dream but very little money. This series shares how they made their dream a reality: facing the challenges, solving the problems, and sometimes changing their minds along the way.”

More information and where to buy, here. 

Prepper’s Livestock Handbook: Livesaving strategies and sustainable methods for keeping chickens, rabbits, goats, cows, and other farm animals.

This prepper’s resource by Leigh Tate focuses on sustainable and self-reliant methods for managing your land and your livestock. Covers livestock choices for homesteading, options for shelter and fencing, homegrown feeds and hay, breeding, birthing, veterinary care, and dairying. Learn pitfalls to avoid and how to keep things manageable. Learn simple, low-tech, off-grid ways to preserve eggs, milk, cheese, and meat. Prepper’s Livestock Handbook will help you make the best livestock choices for your personal homestead needs and goals. More information here.

Baking powder is a common kitchen staple, but did you know you can create your own leavening power with common food items you already have on hand? How To Bake Without Baking Powder will teach you basic kitchen chemistry, so that you will never have to throw out expired baking powder again. Discusses the science behind baking powder, plus substitutes for both cream of tartar and baking soda. Includes how to make sour milk, buttermilk, and sourdough starter, plus the author’s hardwood ash baking experiments, 20 baking powder alternatives, 12 easy reference charts. and 54 modern and historical recipes. Available in both paperback and eBook. More information and where to buy here.

Holiday Gift Giving? Think Books!  © Dec 2020 

by Leigh at http://www.5acresandadream.com