The Homesteading Handbook That's Too Good Not To Have On Your Shelf

There I was, driving into town to fill up my vehicle with gas. I was having a great morning. I came around the corner and I saw them changing the price sign at the gas station. There goes my good morning. I was a little irritated because I knew it was going up a few cents. Then they posted the new number. I couldn't believe it! They had just upped the price of gas 52 cents. 52 cents! Are you kidding me?

Listen, I don't know how the gas companies work. Sometimes I feel like they raise the price to feed their pockets. Now, I work hard for the money I bring home. I don't do that hard work to just put my money into some giant corporation's bank account. The worst thing is that gasoline is not the only thing that is going up in price. The cost of living is rising with the higher propane costs, the higher electric bills, and higher prices of just about everything I can think of.

I have a secret though. This is a secret that has been passed down through generations of my family. Are you ready? The secret is that you don't have to just conform. You don't have to find yourself becoming a leaf on a tree that just decides to go with the flow all the time. You can take control of many aspects of your life by training yourself to make the "homesteaders" lifestyle change.

Almost Anyone Can Start The Homesteading Lifestyle

Several years ago, I went to a class on dieting. I didn't have much weight to lose, but I wanted to be healthier--you know, lower my cholesterol and things like that. When I walked into the class, the speaker told all of us that we did not need to diet, that we simply needed to make a "lifestyle change." I thought he was a nut.

At least I thought he was nuts until one day when a co-worker of mine said to me, "Can you believe how much milk is? It has just gotten so expensive." It was at that moment that I realized I was blessed to have grown up in a family where we lived as much as we could off the land. I looked right at my co-worker and said, "I can't ever remember buying milk." He thought I was nuts.

Homesteading Is Not Only Rewarding; It Puts You In Control

I started talking to him more and more over lunches about what homesteading was all about. You see, as the dieting speaker pointed out, the way he dieted was his lifestyle. If I wanted to be healthy like him, I needed to change my lifestyle. Well, homesteading is a lifestyle I grew up with and if my coworker didn't want to have to go to the grocery store to buy milk, then he would have to change his lifestyle to become more independent.

Here's the thing: homesteading is simply a concept that our relatives, somewhere down the family tree, had to do a long time ago to survive. They had to raise cows and goats for milk, plant a garden, and hunt and trap. If they didn't know how to do all that, then they would have starved to death or died early on from mistakes they made as they attempted to live off the land.

Homesteading is really just getting back to the simple way of life and getting a grasp on skills that a lot of us have lost a few generations ago. Now, I'm not saying that homesteading is easy. Sometimes it's a lot of work. But if you can get into the mindset to begin to make that lifestyle change, you will want to keep going because, the moment you reap your harvest, the reward and satisfaction will elevate your spirits to a whole new level.

Independence Is The Key

The reason that independence is the key is because of the reason why the cost of my coworker's milk went up. Remember that 52 cent spike in gas I was telling you about? Guess what ... when gas prices go up, the company needs to charge more to cover the cost of delivery. The trucking company boosts their costs.

When the gas prices go up how do you think that affects me? My cows and goats don't charge any extra. There is no wear and tear on my vehicle, only on my boots. When I want eggs, my chickens don't send me a notice that my bill is going up. I know those analogies are a little out there, but you get my point. I am independent and for the most part free from the supply chain.
If you haven't already, this is the lifestyle change you can make too.

Skills you learn about gardening and preserving food will be the skills that keep you and your family from going hungry. Gardening, however, is making a resurgent comeback, and more and more people are learning how to grow their own vegetables.

But what about livestock? Do you have even a rudimentary knowledge about raising ducks or chickens? What about goats or sheep? Could you shear a sheep and spin the wool for yarn? Did you know that llamas can be used for wool as well?

Or if you or a loved one got sick, would you know which herbs to use to help comfort them? Could you make a tincture of herbs or use them cosmetically? Would you know how to build a composting toilet if the public sewage systems were to go offline?

Do you know how to build a smokehouse or a root cellar? Or how to make pickles or which vegetables should be eaten fresh as they don't freeze well?

Are you like my coworker? Do you want the answer to these questions and more? Do you want to become even more independent? I'll tell you the same thing that I told him. Pick up the book, The Homesteading Handbook: A Back to Basics Guide. This book is the perfect companion to your back-to-basics library. Concise and succinct, The Homesteading Handbook is an excellent resource for information on those lost arts and skills, those very skills you're going to need in a world that could soon crumble under the weight of supposed "civilization."

This 268-page book is packed full of information! For example:

• How to build a homemade hydroponics system
• Harvesting and canning your produce
• Identifying edible wild plants and mushrooms
• How to make butter, cheese, and yogurt... or brew your own beer!
• Livestock for your small backyard farm
• How to build shelters for your animals
• How to build a smokehouse and smoke meat
• Root cellar storage
• And so much more!

The Homesteading Handbook has tons of information packed in every page. You'll learn about beekeeping, herbal medicines, and pottery making. There are so many different skills for the things in life that we take for granted, things that modern society has converted to large-scale production in the hands of a few. But this book is "the ultimate guide to self-sufficient living for country, urban, and suburban folks."

Nowhere can you find a book so full of information and priced so reasonably. The Homesteading Handbook is yours for the low price of $14.95 plus shipping and handling. For $14.95 and the cost of shipping, you're ensuring the prosperity of your family in the future, a future that will be harder on modern civilization than it was on our countrymen during the Depression. We've lost the arts and skills that those people knew, the knowledge about how to make it out of hard times alive, with food in our bellies and clothes on our back.

Don't wait until all hell breaks loose before learning these skills for yourself. At the very least, you should have this book in your library to study and for reference, even if you don't plan on putting the things you learn into effect right away.

We're only given this moment in time. We are never assured of the future. Click Here to order your copy of The Homesteading Handbook, and allow a $14.95 investment today bring a prosperous future tomorrow.