Useful Skills for the Homesteader

Beekeeping, Fur trapping, Commercial Fishing, Hunting, Woodworking, Leathercraft, Food Preservation.

Latherland - Several good soap recipes.

Other Sites on Homestead Skills

The Country Life and Simplicity Village was created to provide one central place on the Internet to keep all kinds of information about country life and simplicity, including how to live off the grid, how to grow and process your own food, and how to raise farm animals, and much, much more. The Village is committed to encourage a sense of community on the net.

John C. Campbell Folk School - This little school in the North Carolina Mountains is doing some big things. They offer courses in: Basketry, Bead Work, Blacksmithing, Book Arts, Broom Making, Calligraphy, Chair seats, Clay, Crochet Dance, Dolls, Drawing, Dyeing, Embroidery, Enameling, Felting, Food, Geneaology, Glass, Jewelry, Kaleidoscopes, Knitting, Lace, Leather Marbling, Metalwork, Music, Nature Studies, Painting, Paper art Photography, Printmaking, Quilting, Rugs, Spinning, Stone Carving Storytelling, Thread art, Tinsmithing, Weaving, Woodcarving Woodturning, Woodworking, Writing.

Homestead Skills Sources - This page contains links to information on making and fixing things around the homestead, and putting up food for the winter. Listed are Books, Mail Order Catalogs, World Wide Web links, USENET Newsgroups, an antique tractor mailing list, and a link to a page on food dehydrators

Homesteading Resource Page - A friendly site run by Jacob and Cindy, a couple of Alaskan homesteaders.

Lehman's Non-Electric Catalog - Products that don't require electricity: Hand-powered kitchen appliances, homesteading tools, grain mills, cheese-making supplies, composting toilets, oil lamps and gas lights, water pumps and filters, gas refrigerators, wood-burning stoves, and much more.

Work in progress; please come back to this page soon!