Homesteading For Beginners:
50 Skills You Can Learn Right Now

Ready to get out and start homesteading? Here are 50 skills every homesteader needs to know. Everything from skills around the house to out-back farm chores.

And guess what...

You can start right now! No matter what’s going on in life. Whether you’re still living in the city and far from your many-acre-dreams, or you have land and are looking for more skills to acquire and grow your knowledge... There’s something in here for you.

Hope you enjoy my compiled list of great ideas for a self-sufficient, frugal and homestead-style life. It’s full of ways to save money, live off your land and start your homestead.

Things you’ll need to know to run a successful homestead. 

Get your homesteading dream in motion! Here’s a homesteading list full of skills for beginners...

• Who don’t have a boatload of money
• Who want motivation
• Who want projects to do & learn from right where they are
• Who want to get started on something RIGHT NOW
• And who have a lot of Ambition!

Grab a pen and piece of paper, and as you go through the list write down five new skills you want to learn over this next year.

Ready?

let’s get started!

50 Homesteading Skills You Can Learn Right Now

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Skills For Around The House:

Learn To Cook Healthy Food...

• Healthy Traditonal Food Basics
• Make Healthy Sourdough Bread
• Make This Easy Sauerkraut Recipe
• Try Making Kefir
• Fermented Raspberry Ginger Soda

Learn To Naturally Preserve The Food You Grow...

• Learn To Can Using A Water Bath Canner
• Ferment Your Own Pickles
• Make Some Mozzarella Cheese
• How To Preserve Jalapeños--Fermented 

Start Using Healthy & Natural Cleaners...

• Here Are Some Natural Cleaning Recipes To Try
• And Here Are Some More

Learn A Few Basic Sewing Skills Then Try Making one Of These...

• A Reusable Produce Bag
• Gathering Apron Tutorial -For Harvesting Produce in Your Garden
• Egg Gathering Apron (Link To The Pattern)

Make Your Own Cosmetics...

• How To Make The Best DIY Lip Balm
• Make Your Own Bar Soap
• Homemade Lotion Recipe
• How To Make Homemade Soap In A Crock Pot

Fun And Productive Crafts To Benefit Your Homestead...

• DIY Reusable Beeswax Wrap
• How To Make Potholders
• Make Your Own Beeswax Candles

Make Up Some Healing Natural Remedies...

• Make Your Own Healthy Vitamin C
• Elderberry Syrup Recipe
• Lemon, Honey & Thyme Cough Syrup
• Healing Fire Cider Recipe

Skills For Outside:

Grow Something...

• 10 Tips To Start Vegetable Garden Planting
• 9 Reasons To Grow Buckwheat 
• Which Garden Watering System Is Best For You?
• Using Chickens In The Garden
• How To Organize Seed Packets

Start Raising Some Kind Of Animal...

• Free Video Series: How To Get Started With Chickens
• The 10 Best Egg Laying Chickens
• Best Egg Laying Chickens Chart
• 7 Things To Know Before Building Your Chicken Coop
• Make Your Own Chicken Feed

• A Simple Guide For Buying Your First Goat

• The Ideal Family Milk Cow ***For Dreamers ;-) and those with some land
• Milk Cow Basics

• Sprout Feed For Your Livestock

Learn About Permaculture...

• What Is Permaculture? (Please remember to view/read these types of articles from a Christian perspective. We don't need to worry about saving the earth, we need to be good stewards of it.)

Butchering Skills...

• How To Butcher A Chicken
• Butchering Rabbits
• Hog Butchering
• And While You're At It, Raising A Years Supply Of Meat

Skills For Saving/Making Money:

Stop Wasting Stuff...

• Stop Throwing Everything In The Trash! Start a compost bucket for food scraps you can take out to the chickens. They'll love you for it. :-)
• 88 Things You Should Compost & 9 You Shouldn't
• Try To Reuse Water. If you can water your fruit trees with greywater.  I just got this book. It looks great! I can't wait to try it. :-)
• Off-Grid Water Systems

Find Creative Ways To Make Money...

• 39 Ways To Make Money Homesteading

Be More Organized...

• Organize Your Seed Colection
  

There're a few. ;-) Hope they keep you busy for a while. 

By The Way...

Have I got all these down?

Nope.

I'm still learning too.

And loving it. :-) I'm about ready to start learning a new one (Like get our washer off the septic and onto some fruit producing trees.)

How about you?

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