Summary

This charmingly illustrated seasonal treasury of nature-based crafts, baking recipes, and gardening projects for the winter celebrates the homesteading lifestyle with self-sufficient and eco-friendly fun.

Locally printed on 100% recycled paper, Little Homesteader: A Winter Treasury of Recipes, Crafts and Wisdom offers:

Easy yet delicious winter recipes and treats that introduce young readers to local and seasonal eating. From berry cookies, to hot cocoa recipes to warm up after a winter walk, the easy-to-make recipes will inspire kids to get into the kitchen.
Suggestions for using up unloved parts of produce, such as carrot tops to make a kitchen windowsill garden, demonstrate a naturally zero-waste way of living.
Accessible and fun crafts, such as making salt-dough ornaments and foraged foliage wreaths, have instructions broken down into clear steps illustrated in AnneliesDraws’ cute and wholesome style.
The seasonal gardening and growing projects, such as planting bare root berry bushes in the ground or in containers, can be done in a big back yard or on a balcony, making this eco-friendly activity book a fun resource, whether readers are based in town or country.

Woven alongside the cooking, crafting, and planting projects are little snippets of seasonal information and self-sufficient wisdom from homesteading teacher Angela Fanning of Axe and Root Homestead, with a focus on enjoying and celebrating the best of what the winter season has to offer.

Find even more nature-centered seasonal fun in: Little Homesteader: A Fall Treasury of Recipes, Crafts, and Wisdom.

Author Biography

AnneliesDraws is an artist based in the Netherlands. She charms her 250,000 followers on Instagram with heartwarming and inspirational messages illustrated with her adorable drawings.

Angela Fanning is a self-taught first generation farmer who built Axe & Root Homestead, a six-acre farm in central New Jersey, USA. Originally a graphic and website designer by trade she owned and operated her own design firm for over a decade. But though the work was interesting, she wasn't happy meeting deadlines and sitting behind a computer. After the birth of her first child, she realised she wanted to be outdoors, aligning her life with the seasons and with nature. She now grows and preserves her own homegrown produce for her young family, and runs a farm bustling with Clydesdales, geese and ducks for eggs, an apiary with ten beehives, sheep and a small orchard. She taps her trees for maple syrup, creates her own soap and has a vineyard for homemade wine. She shares this love for eco-conscious, self-sufficient living with others through her Instagram account @axeandroothomestead (46k followers), her online homesteading classes, and is a regular contributor to publications such as Countryside Magazine, and Backyard Beekeping and Backyard Poultry Magazines.

CONTENTS
WELCOME TO WINTER ON THE HOMESTEAD!
WINTER WONDERLAND!
RECIPES FOR COCOA
RECIPE FOR EASY HOMEMADE BREAD
WINTER CROP: CITRUS
RECIPE FOR CANDIED ORANGE SLICES
GROW CITRUS FROM A SEED
MAKE A DRIED ORANGE SLICE GARLAND
WINTER CROP: TREE SAP
HOW TO TAP A TREE AND MAKE SYRUP
RECIPE FOR MAPLE SYRUP CANDIES
REGROW KITCHEN SCRAPS
DIY COMPOST BIN
WINTER WILDLIFE
LEARN TO SPOT ANIMAL TRACKS
WINTER BIRDS AND NESTING HABITS
MAKE A PINECONE BIRD FEEDER
EVERGREEN TREES
MAKE EVERGREEN PAINTBRUSHES
MAKE SALT DOUGH ORNAMENTS
CRAFT A FORAGED FOLIAGE WREATH
LEARN EASY FINGER KNITTING
CRAFT WINTER SOLSTICE LANTERNS

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