The Practical Manual Series — The Homestead Set (5 Books)

Five illustrated manuals covering the skills a piece of ground actually needs.

Composting & Soil Building — 39 pages, 15 diagrams. Almost every garden problem is a soil problem in disguise.

Seed Saving & Plant Breeding — 33 pages, 15 diagrams. Keep your own varieties going, adapted to your ground.

Root Cellaring & Winter Food Storage — 48 pages, 15 diagrams. Keep the harvest fresh for months with no freezer.

Beekeeping & Hive Management — 33 pages, 15 diagrams. Keep a colony alive through the year.

Rigging & Moving Heavy Loads — 35 pages, 15 diagrams. Move things that outweigh you, without hurting anyone.

They run in a cycle. Build the soil, save the seed that did best in it, keep the bees that pollinate it, store what it produces through the winter, and move whatever is too heavy to lift while you do.

Each is adapted from public-domain United States government and agricultural literature, rewritten in plain English and illustrated throughout — including several warnings most books in these subjects leave out entirely.

188 pages. 75 diagrams. Instant download, yours forever.