Mother Earth News 52 Homestead Skills follows homesteader Kimberlee Bastien as she learns one homesteading skill per week over an entire year. The book details Bastien’s adventures, from building a beehive and becoming a beekeeper to creating her own laundry and dish soap. Whether you already live on a homestead, are transitioning onto one, or are only thinking about it, 52 Homestead Skills will help turn your dreams into a life worth living.

Packed with skills such as making deodorant, building a chicken chunnel, and freezing jam, the 52 projects in this book will prove helpful to any homesteader (or anyone looking to do more on their own). Life on a homestead might not always be easy, but as Bastien writes, “The learning never ends, and that’s OK. Because life without a challenge would be boring.”

This book will help you through the hardest parts of living on a homestead and add some fun to the mix!

Take the next step in your self-sufficiency journey with the 2^nd edition of our popular Living on Less Collector Series. In this special issue of Mother Earth News magazine, you will find over 100 pages of our team’s favorite DIY projects, gardening strategies, cost-saving tricks, recipes, preservation methods, and more. Presented by experts that we know and trust, every article is filled with knowledge that you can depend on for years to come. 

Articles include:

• Learn to Build Boxes: Think "inside the box" to build cabinets, shelves, window boxes, and more. 
• Homemade Broth & Stock: Glean nutrients and flavor from bones and scraps by simmering and seasoning them.
• Get Crackin': Make the Most of black walnut season with these tips for husking, shelling, and utilizing the famously tough nut.
• Grow $700 of Food in 100 Square Feet!: If more of us grew a little food (instead of so much grass) our savings on grocery bills would be astounding. 
• Coppicing Trees for Sustainable Firewood: You can grow firewood in a fraction of the time it takes to raise a tree from seed. 
• 8 Easy Projects for Instant Energy Savings: Implement these inexpensive strategies to reduce your carbon footprint and slash your energy bills. Spending $400 once could save you $900 per year!
• And many more!