We’re thrilled to have our book join over 10,000 of you in your homes, kitchens and gardens so far!
We poured our hearts, souls and years of sweat and experience into these pages. We’re beyond honored for it to start helping you live your Homestead Lifestyle!
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Book Chapters
1- Our Homestead Stories
2- The Homestead Garden
3- Preserving the Harvest
4- Backyard Chicken Keeping
5- Small-Scale Maple Sugaring
6- Healthy Home Projects
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What you’ll gain from this book:
Homesteaders Stephanie Thurow and Michelle Bruhn have taught thousands of people across the globe how to garden, preserve food, tend backyard chickens, cook from scratch, and care for their families with natural homemade alternatives. Now, their homesteading knowledge and instruction can be found in one place with Small-Scale Homesteading.
In this sustainable guide, learn how to grow your own food, tap maple trees to make gallons of homemade syrup, successfully raise a small flock of laying hens, and more. Other topics include:
- The benefits of small-scale homesteading and its local impacts
- Soil health and composting
- Keeping chickens
- Planning a vegetable garden using annuals and perennials
- DIY recipes and projects for the home and garden
- Seed saving and planting tips
- Handmade candles, soaps, lotions, and cleaning solutions
- Companion and succession planting
- How to extend your growing season
- Explanation of approved food preservation methods and supplied needed
- Maple sugaring
- And so much more!
Watch + Listen
Interviews with Michelle + Stephanie about the book
March 13th – Fox 9 Good Day Morning
Show Segment
March 15th – Minnesota Live TV with Elizabeth Ries
March 16th – Food Garden Life Show podcast
April 3rd – Fox 9 Good Day Morning Show
Segment on Spring Cleaning
April 7th – Stephanie’s Dish Podcast
April 22 – Sustainability Champions Podcast
April 26 – Good Together Podcast Urban Farming Boom
May 2nd – Coffee with the Chicken Ladies Podcast
May 18th Tending Seeds – Podcast
June 26 – Gardening with Joey + Holly Radio Show
July 11 – Growing Joy with Plants Podcast
July 27 – MN Live Segment on Growing Resilient Gardens + Planting For Fall
August 1 – The Beginner’s Garden Podcast
Sept 22 – The Good Dirt Podcast
Learn more about the story behind the book
HERE in ‘How the Book Took Root‘
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About the Authors
Michelle Bruhn homesteads in suburban Minnesota. She’s a local food advocate, Master Gardener Volunteer, writer, garden educator, and farmers’ market manager. As the founder of ForksInTheDirt.com, an information hub for garden and farm-to-table living, her passion is helping folks “dig” their food. When not in the garden, Michelle enjoys spending time with her backyard flock, family, and friends while immersing herself in nature (usually with a foraging basket in tow).
Stephanie Thurow is a Certified Master Food Preserver and Master Gardener Volunteer from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is a homesteader, author of bestselling cookbooks Can It & Ferment It, WECK Small-Batch Preserving, and WECK Home Preserving and creator of the Minnesota from Scratch blog. Stephanie hopes her experience with homesteading will help others reach more of their goals. When she isn’t in the kitchen preserving, she can be found in the garden with her hens, teaching food preservation classes, or at the lake with her family and friends.
Praise for Small-Scale Homesteading
“Cultivating a relationship with your food is more important than ever, and doing so in a small space or urban setting never felt so approachable!”
—Crystal Schmidt, creator of Whole-Fed Homestead and author of Freeze Fresh
“This knowledgeable guide is chock-full of practical advice for homesteaders, small farmers, or anyone interested in doing more for themselves.”
―Rodney Wilson, senior editor at Hobby Farms
“This book is the inspiration you need for embracing the homestead lifestyle without acreage. The authors’ love of gardening shines through as they share techniques for making the most of limited space, proving that small-scale food production is possible, even when you have space restraints. They also delve into other methods of finding good quality, locally grown food, helping you bring your meals closer to home.
―Kris Bordessa, author of Attainable Sustainable: The Lost Art of Self-Reliant Living
“Experienced homesteaders Stephanie Thurow and Michelle Bruhn have created a guide packed with authoritative advice and practical projects that anyone can tackle at home, whether their property is rural or urban.”
—Rebecca Martin, technical editor at Mother Earth News
Thank You for your interest in our book! We’ve got so much more to share, and if you have questions, just ask. You can email me at michelle@forksinthedirt.com.
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