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  • Pasture, Hay, and Rotational Grazing
    Hudson Briggs
    Pasture, Hay, and Rotational Grazing is a practical guide to growing more livestock feed, extending the grazing season, reducing purchased hay, and making better use of the land already available. It explains how to evaluate forage, understand soil tests, estimate carrying capacity honestly, and design a rotational grazing system that fits a small homestead.Readers learn how to...
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    11,59 €

  • Sheep for Meat, Milk, and Wool
    Hudson Briggs
    Sheep for Meat, Milk, and Wool is a practical beginner’s guide to building a healthy, productive flock on a small homestead. It explains how to choose between hair and wool sheep, compare useful breeds, buy sound ewes, and build fencing, shelter, handling facilities, and predator protection that fit real land and budgets.Readers learn how to manage pasture, hay, grain, sheep-sp...
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    11,59 €

  • The Family Milk Cow
    Hudson Briggs
    The Family Milk Cow is a practical, clear-eyed guide to choosing, housing, feeding, breeding, calving, and milking one cow at home. It explains the real numbers behind daily milk production, pasture, winter hay, water, infrastructure, and the twice-daily schedule before a family makes the commitment.Readers learn how to choose a suitable cow, evaluate health and temperament, bu...
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    11,55 €

  • Dairy Goats
    Hudson Briggs
    Dairy Goats is a practical beginner-friendly guide to choosing, housing, feeding, breeding, and milking goats on a small homestead. It explains which dairy breeds fit different goals, how to build fencing that actually holds goats, and how to establish shelter and a working milk stand.Readers learn how to feed hay, browse, grain, and goat minerals correctly; buy animals without...
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    11,55 €

  • Rural First Aid
    Hudson Briggs
    Rural First Aid prepares rural households to respond calmly when professional medical help is far away.Readers learn how to assess a scene, contact emergency services, communicate location information, organize supplies, and provide appropriate immediate care while waiting for trained responders. Topics include bleeding, burns, fractures, heat and cold illness, bites, stings, e...
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    11,46 €

  • Livestock Guardians and Farm Dogs
    Hudson Briggs
    Livestock Guardians and Farm Dogs helps homesteaders choose and manage working dogs with realistic expectations.Readers learn the different jobs of livestock guardians, herding dogs, and general farm dogs, along with the temperament, maturity, fencing, training, and supervision each role requires. The book covers selecting a suitable dog, introducing it to livestock, raising a ...
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    11,46 €

  • Small-Space Homesteading
    Hudson Briggs
    Small-Space Homesteading shows how to turn a small suburban lot into a productive, orderly food-growing system without pretending you need acreage.This practical guide covers zoning and neighborhood limits, realistic layout planning, intensive beds, containers, vertical growing, fruit, small livestock where allowed, compost, water, and preservation.Readers learn how to use limi...
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    11,49 €

  • Bread, Butter, and Cooking From Scratch
    Hudson Briggs
    Bread, Butter, and Cooking From Scratch teaches the everyday foundations of a self-reliant homestead kitchen.Readers learn how to bake reliable bread, maintain sourdough, churn butter, make yogurt and simple cheeses, render fats, prepare stock, cook from a pantry, stretch basic ingredients into satisfying meals, and store food safely.Written for beginners, this book emphasizes ...
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    11,46 €

  • Growing Grains and Staple Crops
    Hudson Briggs
    Growing Grains and Staple Crops helps homesteaders move beyond salad gardens and plan crops that provide meaningful calories.Readers learn the practical differences between corn, dry beans, potatoes, wheat, and other staple crops, including the space, soil, timing, labor, and equipment each requires. The book covers variety selection, planting, maintenance, realistic yields, ha...
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    11,52 €

  • Meat Rabbits
    Hudson Briggs
    Fast growth. Real meat. Small footprint.Meat Rabbits is a practical beginner-friendly guide to raising rabbits as an efficient protein source for a small homestead. Rabbits are quiet, compact, productive, and a realistic choice for families who want clean meat without needing much land.Readers learn how to choose breeds, build suitable housing, feed and water rabbits correctly,...
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    11,43 €

  • Soap, Salves, and Homestead Household Products
    Hudson Briggs
    Soap, Salves, and Homestead Household Products is a practical beginner-friendly guide to making useful household essentials.Readers learn how to work with lye safely, render tallow and lard, use beeswax, create infused oils, make salves and lotion bars, pour simple candles, and understand basic labeling, selling, and legal considerations.Written for beginners, this book keeps t...
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    11,43 €

  • Ducks, Geese, and Guineas
    Hudson Briggs
    Ducks, Geese, and Guineas explains how to choose and raise hardy backyard birds for eggs, meat, pest control, and homestead resilience.Readers learn about housing, fencing, water, feed, seasonal care, breeding, brooding, health, predator protection, and flock integration. The guide explains how ducks handle wet ground, how geese use pasture, and how guineas can help control ins...
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    11,43 €

  • Raising Pigs
    Hudson Briggs
    Raising Pigs is a practical beginner-friendly guide to raising feeder pigs on a small homestead, from choosing pigs and establishing fencing to feeding, handling, health, and finishing the season.Readers learn how to choose breeds and suitable feeder pigs, build fencing, shelter, wallows, and water systems, feed efficiently, manage growth and seasonal care, and understand proce...
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    11,52 €

  • Homestead Emergency Preparedness
    Hudson Briggs
    Homestead Emergency Preparedness is a practical, beginner-friendly guide to keeping water, power, heat, food, and family plans ready when help is slow.Readers learn how to assess likely emergencies, store and treat water, prepare for power outages, establish safe backup heat, organize food reserves, improve communications, protect animals, and create clear family procedures. Ch...
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    11,43 €

  • Homestead Tools and Small Engine Care
    Hudson Briggs
    Good tools. Proper care. Dependable when it matters.Homestead Tools and Small Engine Care is a practical maintenance guide for the saws, mowers, tillers, generators, pumps, and hand tools that keep a working homestead running. Written for beginners and everyday rural homeowners, this book explains why small engines fail, how fuel and oil choices matter, and what simple service ...
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    11,55 €

  • Natural Pest, Weed, and Predator Control
    Hudson Briggs
    Protect the garden. Protect the flock. Protect the harvest.Natural Pest, Weed, and Predator Control is a practical beginner’s guide to protecting a homestead without poisoning the place you are working so hard to build. Written for gardeners, flock keepers, and small livestock owners, it explains how to identify problems first, prevent trouble early, and use targeted natural co...
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    11,46 €

  • Foraging and Wild Edibles
    Hudson Briggs
    Know what you pick. Know what you eat. Forage with care.Foraging and Wild Edibles is a safety-first beginner’s guide to finding, identifying, and responsibly using the wild food growing around you. Written for new foragers, this practical guide teaches the habits that matter most: positive identification, regional field-guide use, legal and ethical harvesting, dangerous look-al...
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    11,52 €

  • Fencing, Gates, and Homestead Infrastructure
    Hudson Briggs
    Strong fences. Solid gates. A homestead that works.Fencing, Gates, and Homestead Infrastructure is a practical beginner’s guide to planning, building, and maintaining the physical systems that make a small homestead usable. From perimeter fences and paddock divisions to gates, lanes, shelters, drainage, heavy-use areas, and simple concrete work, this book explains what each pie...
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    11,98 €

  • Firewood and Heating With Wood
    Hudson Briggs
    Dry wood. Hot fires. Safe winters.Firewood and Heating With Wood is a practical beginner’s guide to cutting, seasoning, stacking, storing, and burning wood safely through winter. Written for homesteaders and homeowners who want dependable heat, it explains how wood actually burns, why moisture matters, how to estimate cord needs, how to choose species, and how to build a firewo...
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    11,52 €

  • Homestead Projects
    Hudson Briggs
    Build the practical backbone of a working homestead with simple, beginner-friendly projects that actually add up.Homestead Projects brings together the hands-on builds the rest of The Homestead Starter Series points to: raised beds, a cold frame, compost bins, a chicken coop, a secure run, feeder and dust-bath stations, a potting bench, trellis supports, and a simple garden fen...
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    11,89 €

  • Fermenting and Culturing at Home
    Hudson Briggs
    Let the microbes do the work.Fermenting and Culturing at Home is a practical beginner’s guide to sauerkraut, fermented pickles, kimchi, sourdough, kombucha, kefir, yogurt, vinegar, and other live foods that preserve themselves through salt, acidity, time, and beneficial microbes. Written for home gardeners, pantry builders, and small homesteaders, it explains what fermentation ...
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    12,22 €

  • Beekeeping for Beginners
    Hudson Briggs
    One hive. One season. A lifetime of learning.Beekeeping for Beginners is a practical first-year guide to choosing equipment, getting bees, opening your hive, reading frames, managing the seasons, controlling varroa mites, and harvesting honey without harming the colony. Written for new backyard and homestead beekeepers, it explains what you are signing up for before you buy be...
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    12,06 €

  • The Home Dairy
    Hudson Briggs
    Good milk starts with good habits.The Home Dairy is a practical beginner’s guide to keeping a family cow or goat and turning fresh milk into butter, yogurt, kefir, cultured cream, ricotta, paneer, chevre, mozzarella, and simple aged cheese. Written for small homesteads and households considering their first dairy animal, it explains the daily commitment honestly before walking...
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    12,13 €

  • Dehydrating and Drying Food
    Hudson Briggs
    Preserve today. Eat well all winter.Dehydrating and Drying Food is a practical beginner’s guide to preserving the harvest with air, heat, and very little storage space. Written for home gardeners, pantry builders, and small homesteaders, it explains how drying works, what dries well, what should not be dried, and how to avoid the common mistakes that lead to mold, poor flavor, ...
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    12,16 €

  • Season Extension and the Home Greenhouse
    Hudson Briggs
    Extend your season. Grow more. Waste less.Season Extension and the Home Greenhouse is a practical beginner’s guide to growing earlier in spring, later in fall, and through more of the winter using simple, affordable structures and techniques. Written for home gardeners and small homesteaders, it explains what row covers, cold frames, low tunnels, hoop houses, and greenhouses ca...
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    11,46 €

  • Soil and Fertility
    Hudson Briggs
    Build better soil. Grow better food.Soil and Fertility is a practical beginner’s guide to understanding, testing, and improving the living ground every productive garden depends on. Written for home gardeners and small homesteaders, it explains how soil structure, organic matter, pH, nutrients, biology, mulch, compost, cover crops, compaction, drainage, and long-term fertility ...
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    11,55 €

  • Root Cellaring and Winter Storage
    Hudson Briggs
    Store now. Eat well all winter.Root Cellaring and Winter Storage is a practical beginner’s guide to keeping garden harvests fresh for months without canning, freezing, or electricity. Written for home gardeners and small homesteaders, it explains how temperature, humidity, airflow, curing, crop choice, ethylene, monitoring, and safety all work together.Inside, you’ll learn what...
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    11,62 €

  • The Backyard Orchard
    Hudson Briggs
    Plant today. Harvest for years.The Backyard Orchard is a practical beginner’s guide to growing fruit trees, berries, and vines for the home grower. Written for homesteaders and first-time orchard planters, it explains how to choose fruit that fits your climate, soil, space, and patience level, then plant and care for it so it has the best chance to feed your household for years...
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    11,67 €

  • The Herb Garden
    Hudson Briggs
    Grow it. Dry it. Use it every day.The Herb Garden is a practical beginner’s guide to growing, harvesting, drying, storing, and using culinary and household herbs. Written for homesteaders, gardeners, and first-time growers, it shows how to start small with useful herbs like basil, thyme, rosemary, mint, parsley, oregano, sage, chives, cilantro, and dill, then turn those plants ...
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    11,65 €

  • Seed Saving and Propagation
    Hudson Briggs
    Save this year’s garden and grow next year’s with confidence.Seed Saving and Propagation is a beginner-friendly guide to choosing the right crops, saving seed that grows true, storing it properly, and multiplying useful plants without buying more every spring. Learn the difference between open-pollinated, heirloom, and hybrid varieties; how pollination and isolation affect puri...
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    11,70 €


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