2017 Homesteaders of America Gift Guide

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Hello Homesteader! ...or maybe you’re here to buy something for your homesteader.

Whatever the case may be... we’re really happy that you’re here!

Welcome to our very first Homesteader’s Gift Guide! In this simple and easy to use guide, you can flip through and find some of our favorite products of the year. Support local businesses, homesteading businesses, conference vendors and sponsors, and much more.

So sit back, relax, grab a cup of coffee, and prepare to drool over all of the amazing homesteader goodness in this little guide. We are making our own lists and checking them twice, just to make sure we have all of our bases covered on the things we want...I mean... the things we want to give our friends...right? Right.

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Wishing you a very merry Christmas!

The Homesteaders of America Staff & Volunteers

How to Use this guide: Every single product is linked to its appropriate website.

Simply click on the title of each product in this guide and you’ll be directed to the proper place to purchase the product!

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Lehman’s Hardwood Sling Shot

Price: $9.99 You’ll feel like David with this clever little slingshot in your hand.

However, we don’t recommend using it on any person, Goliath-sized or otherwise!

Made from solid American hardwood, sanded smooth Imprinted with the Lehman’s® logo Real latex surgical tubing gives lots of snap power Genuine leather pouch for a comfortable shot Made for over 20 years by a small workshop here in America 7-3/4”L

The Original McGuffey’s: The Eclectic First Reader

Price: $13.99 This McGuffey’s Reader is like the ones used years ago in one-room schoolhouses. Well known for teaching children to read through short stories and Christian values, it’s great for homeschooling, extra studies or as a keepsake of the past.

For grades 2-3 Hardcover McGuffey, 8-3/4”x5-1/2”, 153 pp.

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Boy and Girl Egg Gathering Aprons by Fluffy Layers

Price: $22.00 Prevent broken eggs with this adorable 8-pocket egg gathering apron in a fun green farm print.

For ages 4 to 10

Plant Press

Price: $25.00 Inspire adventure and skill growth with this beautiful handmade plant press from Sew the Land. Used to press your favorite foraged flowers and plants into works of art.

Made of Poplar Includes 4 pressing layers 8.5” long x 5.5” wide

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By Janet Garman Price: $9.99 In Margarita and the Beautiful Gifts, a kind farmer gives two ducks, Margarita and Jimmy, a place on her farm. Margarita plans to thank the farmer in the only way she can, but then the gifts go missing! What follows is a romp around the farmyard, and a search party, as the ducks try to keep a secret from the farmer, who is the only one who can help solve the mystery.

See Inside Where Food Comes From

By Emily Bone Price: $14.99 Where in the world do bananas grow? How are fish and seafood caught? What happens to milk before we drink it? Lift the flaps to find out the answers to questions about how the food you eat is grown, raised and processed. Many people aren’t quite sure where their food comes from and this fascinating book is packed with amazing facts that brings food production to life! Informative and entertaining, it’s a great resource for children to grow on to help them make informed decisions about food later in life.

For ages 7+

A Kid’s Guide to Keeping Chickens: Best Breeds, Creating a Home, Care and Handling, Outdoor Fun, Crafts and Treats

By Melissa Caughey Price: $11.86 Covering everything from feeding, housing, and collecting eggs to quirky behaviors and humane treatment, Caughey’s engaging advice helps children understand the best ways to care for their chickens. Spark enthusiasm with creative activities like chicken forts and a veggie piñata for the flock, and feed more than the imagination with egg-centric dishes like Mexican egg pizza.

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Survival Skills

Price: $5.99 Packed with reliable expert information, this book will help you win through tricky situations, ranging from struggling through a snowdrift to dodging danger in a big city. There is a wealth of facts about survival kits, first aid, food, shelter and map-reading. Clear illustrations show how to come to grips with survival techniques. While stressing the importance of avoiding unnecessary risk, the book encourages you to develop initiative so that you can become a true survivor.

The Little House Books (9 volume set)

Price: $30.32 This nine-book paperback box set of the classic series features the classic black-and-white artwork from Garth Williams.The nine books in the timeless Little House series tell the story of Laura’s childhood as an American pioneer and are cherished by readers of all generations. They offer a unique glimpse into life on the American frontier and tell the heartwarming, unforgettable story of a loving family.

Charlotte’s Web

Price: $5.24 This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children’s literature that is “just about perfect.” This paper-over-board edition includes a foreword by two-time Newbery winning author Kate DiCamillo.

Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte’s Web, high up in Zuckerman’s barn. Charlotte’s spiderweb tells of her feelings for a little pig named Wilbur, who simply wants a friend. They also express the love of a girl named Fern, who saved Wilbur’s life when he was born the runt of his litter.

E. B. White’s Newbery Honor Book is a tender novel of friendship, love, life, and death that will continue to be enjoyed by generations to come. It contains illustrations by Garth Williams, the acclaimed illustrator of E. B. White’s Stuart Little and Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House series, among many other books.

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Portable Backyard Chicken Coop Price: $499

Get free-range egg production and soil fertilization in one! This portable chicken coop gives your chickens the protection, comfort, and natural environment they need, then goes even further - literally. There’s no more natural way to keep backyard poultry.

• Two wheels let you lift and roll the entire coop around your yard daily to every few days • Made with a termite-resistant, engineered wood siding that’s so durable it has a 50year warranty • Convenient, removable aluminum cleanout tray and seamless aluminum roof •Outdoor area is fenced with 19-gauge galvanized wire mesh • May also be used as a rabbit hutch makes a great 4-H project Outdoor area 45”L x 27”W x 33”H Overall 6’ 8-3/4”L x 31”W x 41”H Approx. 120 lb.

USA made in Ohio

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Mini II Advance Fully Gigital 7 Egg Incubator

Price: $192.23 The popular Mini Advance incubator has been improved to include a room temperature alarm in addition to the existing incubator temperature alarm and the convenience of an external water top-up.

The Mini II Advance is still menu driven and extremely easy to use: just program the length of incubation for your specie and the micro-controller holds the correct temperature, turning and length of incubation with no further input. The display counts down each day to tell you when eggs are due to hatch and turning will stop automatically 2 days prior to hatching. All you need do is top up periodically with water.

Ideal for learners, hobbyists and teachers wanting to hatch eggs in the classroom.

Although small, the Mini II Advance offers advanced features which make it attractive to any breeder: 7 egg capacity (12 small eggs with optional insert) Temperature factory preset at 99.5 F (37.5°C) but fully adjustable High and low temperature alarms including the new room temperature alarm Periodic egg cooling feature Fan assisted air circulation Humidity provided by water trays with new convenient external water top-up (not suitable for automatic humidity control) Automatic egg turning - turning interval and turning angle programmable Count down to hatch day with autoturn stop Clear dome for excellent visibility Biomaster™ anti-microbial plastic construction - robust and easy to clean 3-year warranty Maximum egg capacities (approximate): Quail 12 Pheasant 12 Hen 7 Duck 7

1 Lb Tasty Grubs Dried Black Soldier Fly Larvae

Price: $18.95 Our 1-pound bag of Tasty Grubs dried black soldier fly larvae is enough to treat a single chicken or several small birds or animals for an entire month! All of our products are backed by our 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you are dissatisfied for any reason, simply return the unused portion to us for a full refund.

Squirmy Wormy Bites

Price: $18.95 Bye-bye worms! You’re outta here!

This treat is comprised of several traditional herbs used to discourage and/or kill pesky parasites from seeking residence in their host’s digestive tract.

Ingredients: water, flax meal, spinach powder, pumpkin seeds, turmeric, mullein, fennel, ginger, cloves, wormwood, hyssop, pumpkin seeds, thyme, cayenne Safe For: Livestock, poultry, and pets, including pregnant and nursing animals.

Chaffhaye for Chickens (and more!)

Contact Chaffhaye for a Quote Early access to semi-moist diets for day-old chicks stimulates gastrointestinal (GI) development and prevents dehydration. Rapid GI tract development after hatch is essential for optimization of digestive function and underpins efficient growth and development, as well as a full expression of the genetic potential for production traits Benefits of moist feeding have been attributed to decreased viscosity of gut contents, greater development of the layer of villi in the digestive segments and reduced crypt cell proliferation.

Use as a supplement.

Chickens, ducks, geese - feed 1-1.5 lbs per bird each week Turkeys & Large Poultry - 2 lbs per bird each week

Amish-Made Log Cabin Beehive Price: $299.99

Raise Your Own Honeybees!

Fresh honey, beneficial wax, and pollination of crops – there’s a hive full of benefits waiting for you. Whether you’re just beginning or are a seasoned beekeeper, our high-quality log cabin style beehive kit will suit your needs. It’s carefully handcrafted by an Amish family who raises their own bees, so you’ll get a hive that lasts and works well.

Kit includes: 2 deep log-style boxes (10 frames per box), wood shingled peak roof, inner cover and screen bottom Comes fully assembled; just stack hive boxes Unpainted pine USA made in Ohio

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Gransfors Bruk Large Splitting Axe Price: $189.99

Hand-Forged in Sweden. Seriously Sharp, Ready-for-Action.

It may be the last axe you’ll ever buy. Professional smiths at the Gränsfors Bruks company have been crafting elite, top-quality axes for more than a century.

Hickory handles 20-year guarantee Head 7-1⁄2”L x 3-1⁄2”W Overall 27-1⁄2”L 5 lb Made in Sweden

Snow & Nealley Penobscot Bay Kindling Axe

Price: $79.99 Snow & Nealley® axes are being made once again in the USA thanks to an Amish man and his sons who bought the iconic brand. Caring deeply about their work, they drop forge each blade from high carbon steel, then hand-temper, grind and finish it. The result is top notch craftsmanship you’ll notice.Kindling axe is small enough for carrying, but big enough to handle firewood Hickory handle Genuine leather blade sheath is included for your safety Head 6-1/2”L x 3-3/4”W, 1-3/4 lb Overall about 17”L, 2-3/4 lb USA made in Maine

LogOX Hauler

Price: $119.95 The LogOX Hauler is an ergonomically designed hand tool that has replaced the dangerous pulp hook, and helps significantly reduce back strain caused by continually bending over to grab log rounds while processing firewood.Quickly and easily pick up stove-length log rounds and carry them to your woodpile, log splitter, or wagon.

Log rounds easily balance by your side as you move, while not obstructing your view of potential tripping hazards that could result in injury.The wear and tear of bending over to grab each log round off the ground numerous times during an average wood splitting session compounds quickly with painful results. The LogOX helps prevent this by allowing you to directly engage log rounds on the ground and lift them without bending over.

The LogOX hauler can be used as a convenient short cant hook to roll logs over and finish your chainsaw cut, and is also great for sawmill work! The LogOX hauler can be used to easily consolidate and drag multiple pieces of brush or treetops to a centralized location.

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LogOX Hauler Holder

Price: $29.95 Hands-free convenience when operating equipment while using your LogOX Hauler.

This custom-designed holster works in tandem with your LogOX Hauler, enabling you to quickly switch back and forth between using the Hauler to work with a splitter, chipper, or sawmill. Made from heavy-gauge steel with a rust resistant epoxy powder coating and a sturdy professional grade American leather backing. This leather-backed LogOX Hauler holster is compatible with a standard-width belt.

USA made LogOX Hauler sold separately.

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5-Tine Unbreakable Broadfork

Price: $185 Unbreakable broadfork, heat-treated steel 10-inch long tines with 4.5-inch spacing between tines. Heat treated aircraft quality steel handles. 60-inch tall overall.

23� wide cross bar, 19.5� inside handle spacing, 14 lbs.

Wire Compost Bin Price: $39.96

Recycle vegetable waste, leaves, grass cuttings and more into this compost bin, and turn them into nutrient-rich soil for your flowers or vegetable garden. Open design for outside use.

• A natural, eco-friendly way to fertilize.

• Made of high strength steel (powder coated green) • Holds approx. 16-1/2 cu ft of compost (123 gallons) • No assembly needed Includes 6 wire stakes to keep bin secured to ground Folds flat for storage.

30-1/4”L x 28-1/4”W x 34”H, 7-1/4 lb USA made

Harvest Basket Set

Price: $21.99 From small to large, our traditional, rustic baskets are great for gathering the harvest or decorating your home.

Set includes 4 baskets: 3 qt, 4 qt, 8 qt and 12 qt.

Double strap handle for secure carrying.

Made of poplar wood.

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Seed Packet Template

Price: $6.50 You will receive a high res JPG printable file of the seed packet design. These seed packets are great for labeling and sharing all your seeds. Design is as shown in listing photos.

The seed packets are set up on a 8.5 x 11” template with 2 seed packets per page. You can print these packets from home. They look adorable on white and kraft card stock. ** Assembly required ** M A T E R I A L S needed (not included) Scissors or Exacto Knife Glue OR Tape *Ruler may be helpful to get straight fold lines S E E D PAC K E T S I Z E when folded about 4” x 3”

Vintage Tractor Toolbox

Price: Contact Virginia Tractor for a quote The TY26481 20-in.-wide Vintage Tractor Toolbox features attractive John Deere colors and a generous top storage area Dimensions: 20-inches wide

SmartSteader Homestead Management App Price: starts at $2.99

Help the Homesteader in your life organize their records easier and faster!

Keep track of homestead records Maintain financial notes See how much your homestead produces ...and much more!

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AutoSplit from Autom

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Split firewood safely, quickly and efficiently. The machine is overbuilt to withstand the abuses of the industry. It is also very easy to use with a comfortable working height and standard block lift. Wood is forced through a 4-way box wedge which ensures that no piece will be in excess of 4.5� x 4.5�.

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• Minimal handling • Powerful and fast operation • Ergonomic operating position • Standard block lift • Critical components protected • Multiple wedge options available

Tower Garden Growing System

Price: $45.25 per month for 12 months Do you or a loved one dream of gardening, but are limited due to space or physical ability? The Tower Garden is fantastic solution to your growing needs.

Includes: Vertical, aeroponic Tower Garden Non-GMO basil, beefsteak tomato, bell pepper, cherry tomato, cucumber, eggplant and gourmet lettuce seeds Seed starting supplies, including germination tray, 20 rockwool cubes, vermiculite and net pots Pump, timer and drain tube Tower Garden Mineral Blend plant food (one qt. each) and measuring cup pH test kit and one bottle each of pH adjusters Dedicated customer support and comprehensive growing resources to help at every stage of your Tower Garden experience

Personalize Your Firearm, Cup, and More!

Contact Coatings USA for pricing Powder Coating not only allows you to personalize your firearm and other valuables, but it also protects it for years to come.

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Shiitake Fruiting Block Price: $25.00 Learn to grow your own mushrooms in your kitchen or in your classroom!

stead Kitchen Brandy-Infused Vanilla Hickory Syrup Price: $16.00 Original hickory syrup with an organic vanilla bean and infused with brandy.

Churncraft Butter Churn Price: $240.00

Hand-churned butter is rich, creamy & just tastes better.

The Churncraft butter churn is a beautiful, solid, award-winning tool for making fresh butter at home.

Each one of our butter churns is built carefully by hand in our small workshop in Connecticut. We use high quality, custom-made materials to create a durable, sturdy and heirloom-style tool.

The traditional 4 quart glass jar will churn two quarts of cream into approximately 1.5-1.75 lbs. of fresh butter and approximately 3 cups of buttermilk.

Height: 14.5 inches (37 cm) Depth: 7 inches (18 cm) Total Width (including handle): 11 inches (28 cm)

Walnut Round Board with Hand-Carved Handle Price: $30.00

Made of walnut wood. Hand finished with a food-safe mineral oil and beeswax. Can be used as a cutting board, serving board and cheese board.

Measurements: 8.5� across x 3/4� thick Handmade by Sew the Land

Heritage Blue Stripe Stoneware Crock — ½ gallon Price: $21.99

No matter how you use it, this stoneware crock is sure to bring charm to your home.

Solidly made, each one is hand-turned the old-fashioned way for beautiful results.

Natural stoneware with double blue stripes.

Use for fermenting small batches, storing kitchen utensils, or decorating your home.

Holds about 1/2 gallon Lead free Dishwasher safe About 6-1?4”H x 6”OD, 3 lb USA made

7 Mil Zip Seal Mylar Bags Price Varies Give the gift of food storage!

Food Grade (meets FDA requirements for food contact) / BPA FREE • Convenient Zip Lock / Heat Seal • Light/Moisture/AirTight, Smell-Proof barrier for maximum protection CHOOSE FROM THE FOLLOWING SIZES : (in 25, 50, 100, 150, and 300 Count packages) ~1 Quart (8.3 X 8.3 inches) ~2 Quart (10 X 10 inches) ~1 Gallon (10 X 16 inches)

For the food preser Thrive Life Foods Price Varies Anyone that eats would be grateful to receive a delicious, healthy, and easy meal any night of the week.

Whether you are shopping for a busy mama or a bachelor, they will appreciate that you took care of a meal for them.

Masontops Complete Mason Jar Fermentation Kit Price: $54.95 Includes: Pickle Pipe Silicone Airlocks Pickle Pebbles PLUS+ Clear Glass Fermentation Weights and Tamper Set of 4 Pickle Pipes Set of 4 Pickle Pebbles

Granite Ware 0718-1 Enamel-on-Steel Canning Kit, 9-Piece Price: $34.27 • 9-piece canning kit includes 21-quart canner, canner lid, 7-jar rack, 9-inch colander, lid wrench, funnel, tongs, jar lifter, and magnetic lid lifter • Durable enamel-on-steel construction heats quickly and efficiently • Side loop handles help ensure safe, secure transport; coated stay-cool tool handles • Domed lid with loop handle helps trap in heat for faster boiling • Safe to use on both gas and electric stovetops; hand wash

rvation enthusiast All American Pressure Canner/Cooker Price: $284 The All American 21-1/2-quart pressure cooker and canner holds approximately 19 standard regular mouth pint jars or 7 standard regular mouth quart jars; The perfect Canner for all your canning needs!

15 3/8-inches high with 12 1/4-inch inside diameter; Made in USA.

Excalibur 9-Tray Dehydrator Price: $224.99 9-Tray dehydrator, 15 square feet of drying space.

Built-in on/off switch and adjustable thermostat with 26-hour timer.

Includes a flexible poly-screen tray insert to prevent foods from sticking.

Great for large families, gardeners, and sportsmen.

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Camp Chef Pro 60X Two Burner Camp Stove Price: $199.99 Don’t have room in your kitchen to can and preserve?

Or maybe you’re looking for an outdoor grill or pizza oven? This camp chef stove is so verstile and comes with many add-ons like a grill, pizza oven, griddle, and more!

Use this to water bath or pressure can food in the safety of the outdoors, then store it away easily for future use and to prevent rust!

one of the canners on the for a major Christmas win!

All American SUN OVEN Price: $299 (with HOA link) Cook, Bake, Dehydrate, or Boil with the World’s Most Universal Power Source…

Free Sunshine!

The All American SUN OVEN® has retained the best qualities of the original Global Sun Oven and added many more user-friendly features to create America’s most efficient hassle-free solar appliance for cooking, water pasteurization, and dehydrating.

Sample Cooking Times Beef Roast, 2.5 lbs = 1 hour, 20 minutes Baked Chicken, 3 lbs = 1 hour, 15 minutes Bread = 45 minutes Rice = 40 minutes Chocolate Cake = 35 minutes Granola = 20 minutes Reaches Temperatures of 360 to 400 Degrees Fahrenheit!

American-made with uniquely American features!

All American SUN OVEN® with: • Built-in thermometer • Attached one piece collapsible reflectors • Spill-proof levelator • Self-contained leveling leg •SUN OVEN® eCookbook & Emergency Preparedness CD featuring 600 recipes, hundreds of pictures, video clips and much more which has been developed by Cook’n, the award winning and #1 best-selling recipe organizer.

Gut Hook Hunting Knife from CutCo Price: $119 This knife eliminates the need for a separate gut hook tool and is exactly what you need for field dressing. The blade, available with a Double-DŽ or straight edge, is ideal for skinning. Includes leather sheath and lanyard. Makes a great gift and can be engraved. 4-3/8� blade

Kombucha Starter Price: $12.00 Kombucha is an amazingly healthy and delicious drink that should be present in every homestead kitchen. Each starter kit contains one Kombucha SCOBY (i.e., Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast) plus enough kombucha to kick start your own, home-brewed batches.

With proper care, and because of their ability to continually reproduce themselves, kombucha scobies can last indefinitely. Instructions provided.

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Our Family is a Circle — Pallet Art Price: $39.99 Locally-made wall art will give your family a beautiful reminder. Made of the same wood used in shipping pallets for a handsome, aged look.

Just hang it up and enjoy Has sawtooth hanger on back 24”L x 24-1⁄4”W x1”D 6 lb USA made in Ohio

On This Farm — Pallet Art Price: $19.99 Made in rural Ohio where farms are a familiar sight, this farm-inspired wall art will add simple beauty to your homestead. Just hang on your wall and enjoy.

Crafted from kiln-dried pine boards for a rustic, farmhouse look Includes a sawtooth hanger for easy wall mounting Dimensions: 15”L x 9”W x 1”D Weight: 1 lb USA made in Ohio

Handmade Rooster Pillow Covers Price: $28 Blue Ticking Stripe Rooster silhouette pillow cover. Front of the pillow cover has a hand-cut rooster silhouette in blue ticking stripe fabric sewn onto a cotton decorator fabric. The back of the pillow is blue ticking stripe fabric with an envelope closure for easy insert removal.

Our pillow covers* are 18” by 18”. *Pillow insert not included

“Farmhouse” Wood Sign 6.5” x 24.5” Price: $35 Each sign and frame are handcrafted individually and slight variations will occur from piece to piece in distressing, antiquing, and wood grain. All signs are assembled with hardware for hanging on your wall. The frame is wide and sturdy enough that the piece can even be used as a shelf-sitter.

Handmade in Virginia by The Rustic Mod

The Incredible Egg Scale Price: $29.97 Designed to be accurate for weighing your chicken eggs, as well as attractive.

Weighs egg sizes: Peewee through X-Large eggs in both grams and ounces.

It’s vintage design will make an excellent addition to your home/kitchen decor.

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The Homesteader’s Herbal Companion

By Amy Fewell Price: $22.95 Pre-Order Homesteaders of America Founder, Amy Fewell’s, new book!

The Homesteader’s Herbal Companion is a beautiful guide for the modern day homesteader. From learning how to incorporate herbs and essential oils around your home, to learning how to enhance your family’s health and well-being, this book is the go-to guide for those wishing to live a more natural homesteading lifestyle. This book takes readers through the basics of herbalism, including the different types of herbs and the uses for them around the homestead. It also breaks down how herbs are used in tinctures, salves, essential oils, and infused oils. Better yet, if you’re a homesteader with livestock, you’ll learn how to maintain their health holistically as well.

With an array of beautiful photos and easy to read terminology, just about any homesteader, new or seasoned, can learn from The Homesteader’s Herbal Companion, and finally feel comfortable incorporating the many wonderful qualities of herbs around their homes.

Purchase on Amazon here.

OR Purchase a signed copy here.

50 DIY Projects for Your Chickens: Chicken Coops, Brooders, Runs, Swings, Dust Baths, and More!

Price: $19.99

By Janet Garman Get ready to jump into the world of chickens, one DIY project at a time. Owning and raising chickens doesn’t have to be an expensive hobby. With imagination, simple tools, and salvaged or bargain materials, you can make everything your flock needs for their health and safety.

Chickens From Scratch

By Janet Garman Price: $12 Raising Chickens the old fashioned way will be enjoyable and rewarding once you learn the basics.

In Chickens from Scratch you will learn how and where to purchase your chicks, how to house, feed and care for them and ultimately enjoy the delicious fresh eggs the chickens will provide for your family.

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The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!

By Carleen Madigan Price: $10.23

How to Speak Chicken: Why Your Chickens Do What They Do & Say What They Say

By Melissa Caughey Price: $11.52

This comprehensive guide to homesteading provides all the information you need to grow and preserve a sustainable harvest of grains and vegetables; raise animals for meat, eggs, and dairy; and keep honey bees for your sweeter days. With easy-to-follow instructions on canning, drying, and pickling, you’ll enjoy your backyard bounty all winter long.

Best-selling author Melissa Caughey knows that backyard chickens are like any favorite pet — fun to spend time with and fascinating to observe. Her hours among the flock have resulted in this quirky, irresistible guide packed with firsthand insights into how chickens communicate and interact, use their senses to understand the world around them, and establish pecking order and roles within the flock. Combining her up-close observations with scientific findings and interviews with other chicken enthusiasts, Caughey answers unexpected questions such as Do chickens have names for each other? How do their eyes work? and How do chickens learn?

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The Small-Scale Poultry Flock: An All-Natural Approach to Raising Chickens and Other Fowl for Home and Market Growers

By Harvey Ussery Price: $28.23 The most comprehensive guide to date on raising all-natural poultry for the small-scale farmer, homesteader, and professional grower. The Small-Scale Poultry Flock offers a practical and integrative model for working with chickens and other domestic fowl, based entirely on natural systems.

Readers will find information on growing (and sourcing) feed on a small scale, brooding (and breeding) at home, and using poultry as insect and weed managers in the garden and orchard.

Ussery’s model presents an entirely sustainable system that can be adapted and utilized in a variety of scales, and will prove invaluable for beginner homesteaders, growers looking to incorporate poultry into their farm, or poultry farmers seeking to close their loop.

Ussery offers extensive information on: • The definition of an integrated poultry flock (imitation of natural systems, integrating patterns, and closing the circle) • Everything you need to know about your basic chicken (including distinctive points about anatomy and behavior that are critical to management) • Extended information on poultry health and holistic health care, with a focus on prevention.

• Planning your flock (flock size, choosing breeds, fowl useful for egg vs. meat production, sourcing stock) • How to breed and brood the flock (including breeding for genetic conservation), including the most complete guide to working with broody hens available anywhere • Making and mixing your own feed (with tips on equipment, storage, basic ingredients, technique, grinding and mixing) • Providing more of the flock’s feed from sources grown or self-foraged on the homestead or farm, including production of live protein feeds using earthworms and soldier grubs • Using poultry to increase soil fertility, control crop damaging insects, and to make compost-including systems for pasturing and for tillage of cover crops and weeds • Recipes for great egg and poultry dishes (including Ussery’s famous chicken stock!)

• And one of the best step-by-step poultry butchering guides available, complete with extensive illustrative photos.

No other book on raising poultry takes an entirely whole-systems approach, or discusses producing homegrown feed and breeding in such detail. This is a truly invaluable guide that will lead farmers and homesteaders into a new world of self-reliance and enjoyment.

Folks, This Ain’t Normal: A Farmer’s Advice for Happier Hens, Healthier People, and a Better World

By Joel Salatin Price: $13.00

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Your Successful Farm Business: Production, Profit, Pleasure

By Joel Salatin Price: $22.99 Twenty years ago Joel Salatin wrote YOU CAN FARM, which has launched thousands of farm entrepreneurs around the world. With another 20 years of experience under his belt, bringing him to the half-century mark as a full-time farmer, he decided to build on that foundation with a sequel, a graduate level curriculum.

Gaining Ground: A Story Of Farmers’ Markets, Local Food, And Saving The Family Farm

By Forrest Pritchard Price: $12.72 One fateful day in 1996, after discovering that five freight cars’ worth of glittering corn have reaped a tiny profit of $18.16, young Forrest Pritchard vows to save his family’s farm. What ensues--through hilarious encounters with all manner of livestock and colorful local characters--is a crash course in sustainable agriculture. Pritchard’s biggest ally is his renegade father, who initially questions his son’s career choice and rejects organic foods for sugary mainstream fare. But just when the farm starts to turn heads at local farmers’ markets, his father’s health takes a turn for the worse. With poetry and humor, this inspiring memoir tugs on the heartstrings and feeds the soul long after the last page is turned

Floret Farm’s Cut Flower Garden: Grow, Harvest, and Arrange Stunning Seasonal Blooms

By Erin Benzakein Price: $19.24 Cut Flower Garden is equal parts instruction and inspiration—a book overflowing with lush photography of magnificent flowers and breathtaking arrangements organized by season. This beautiful guide to growing, harvesting, and arranging gorgeous blooms year-round gives readers vital tools to nurture a stunning flower garden and use their blossoms to create showstopping arrangements. With irresistible photos of Erin’s flower farm that showcase exquisite blooms, tips for growing in a variety of spaces and climates, as well as step-by-step instructions for lavish garlands, airy centerpieces, and romantic floral décor for every season, Floret Farm’s Cut Flower Garden informs and entices gardeners of all skill levels.

Family Table: Farm Cooking from the Elliott Homestead

By Shaye Elliott Price: $24.95 With more than 70 recipes, Family Table shares Shaye Elliott’s bounty of favorite dishes that nourish her hardworking farm family every day. From dry-cured bacon made from pigs raised on the Elliott Homestead to sizzling steak with vinegar and tomato dressing, each recipe is about reviving easy, traditional food preparations for a more flavorful and healthful future. Forget expensive, exotic ingredients or fancy techniques. This farmgirl ain’t got time for that!

The Encyclopedia of Country Living

By Carla Emery Price: $29.95 From craft culture to survivalists, preppers, homesteaders, urban farmers, and everyone in between, there is a desire for a simpler way of life—a healthier, greener, more self-sustaining and holistic approach to modern life. The knowledge you need to survive and thrive off the grid is at your fingertips in The Encyclopedia of Country Living, the best-selling resource for the homesteading movement.

With its origins in the back-to-the-land effort of the late 1960s, Carla Emery’s landmark book has grown into a comprehensive guide to building your sustainable country escape haven, while lowering your carbon footprint in the process.

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By Adam Danforth Price: $24.95 and butcher your own animals safely and humanely with this award-winning guide. Providing detailed phy of every step of the process, Adam Danforth shows you everything you need to know to butcher bit, lamb, goat, and pork. Learn how to create the proper slaughtering conditions, break the meat down, ce flavorful cuts of meat. Stressing proper food safety at all times, Danforth provides expert advice on ry tools and helpful tips on freezing and packaging. Enjoy the delicious satisfaction that comes with butchering your own meat.

ken Health Handbook, 2nd Edition: A Complete Maximizing Flock Health and Dealing with Disease

By Gail Damerow Price: $16.96

chickens are happy chickens. This one-of-a-kind book covers the health problems that plague chickbreeds and ages. Practical charts identify common and causes of infection, while an alphabetic listing es provides advice on treatment. You’ll find helpful s of troublesome ailments of all types, from poor egg n to crooked toe syndrome. Practical remedies and ventative care measures will help your beloved flock stay happy, healthy, and safe.

2017 Conference Speaker Esther Emery

What Falls from the Sky:

How I Disconnected from the Internet and Reconnected with the God Who Made the Clouds

By Esther Emery Price: $19.99 Esther Emery was a successful playwright and theater director, wife and mother, and loving it all - until, suddenly, she wasn’t. When a personal and professional crisis of spectacular extent leaves her reeling, Esther is left empty, alone in her marriage, and grasping for identity that does not define itself by busyness and a breakneck pace of life. Something had to be done.

What Falls from the Sky is Esther’s fiercely honest, piercingly poetic account of a year without Internet - 365 days away from the good, the bad, and the ugly of our digital lives - in one woman’s desperate attempt at a reset. Esther faces her addiction to electronica, her illusion of self-importance, and her longing to return to simpler days, but then the unexpected happens.

Her experiment in analog is hijacked by a spiritual awakening, and Esther finds herself suddenly, inexplicably drawn to the faith she had rejected for so long.

Ultimately, Esther’s unplugged pilgrimage brings her to a place where she finally finds the peace - and the God who created it - she has been searching for all along.

What Falls from the Sky offers a path for you to do the same. For all the ways the Internet makes you feel enriched and depleted, genuinely connected and wildly insufficient, What Falls from the Sky reveals a new way to look up from your screens and live with palms wide open in a world brimming with the good gifts of God.

Sterling is a small college, but one that speaks with a big voic a strategic path to become a global leader in the promotion of mental stewards.

To meet this vision, Sterling embraces its rural location as one which people of all backgrounds and identities feel at home, w furthering the dignity of all.

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Rough STuff FOR EV

VERY HOMESTEADER

1.Men & Women’s Insulated Overalls - Price Varies Keep yourself warm while doing chores this winter. Hard core, heavy duty Carhartt Overalls never disappoint.

2. Insulated Work Dog Coat - $59 - Your hunting dog or chore dog sure could use a jacket this winter. This one might even out work the dog!

3. Select Reserve Superior Beard Oil - $10 - Keep hydration locked in and the cold out!

4. Men & Women’s Acrylic Watch Hat - $7 and up - Your little noggin sure could use some extra heat when doing chores. Every homesteader loves a good hat.

5. Wilderness Boy’s Longsleeve Tshirt - $19 - This fun boy’s shirt will please your little kidsteader for sure!

6. Infant Future Hunter Onesie - $5 and up - Even the littlest kidsteader loves a good shirt!

7. Girl’s Camo Sweatshirt - $20 - Even girls need good work gear on the homestead.

8. Insulated Work Gloves - $17 - Tried and true on our homestead, these work gloves can be used in all seasons!

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Thanks for making 2017 such and amazing year!

From our families to yours,

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays! www.homesteadersofamerica.com