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Pioneering Skills for Everyone: Modern Homesteading

Series: Pioneering Skills for Everyone: Modern Homesteading
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Episodes
24
Rating
NR
Year
2021
Language
English
Publisher
The Great Courses

About

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, Pioneering Skills for Everyone: Modern Homesteading 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.

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Episodes

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1. What Is Modern Homesteading?

27m

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Explore the many ways modern homesteading can bring some of the spirit and benefits of traditional homesteading into your life. Once you identify your own goals and skills-both the skills you bring and the ones you want to learn-you're ready to get started. Even with a tiny garden, you can begin your own version of modern homesteading.

2. Keeping Bees and Harvesting Honey

25m

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There are many benefits of apiculture, but you'll have a bit to learn if you want to stay safe. Discover your options for building or buying the hive itself, how to recognize bees in various stages of development, and see the best way to harvest the honey. With just a few hives, you'll have plenty of honey for yourself, family, and friends, and your garden will be pollinated.

3. Raising Goats on Your Homestead

23m

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Goats are relatively easy and inexpensive to maintain as livestock. But you'll need to build your goat shelter before the animals arrive! With step-by-step directions, you'll learn how to shelter, feed, and breed your goats to develop a healthy herd that's the appropriate size for your homestead.

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The Great Coursesdirector
The Great Coursesproducer
Greg Pryoractor