Benefits of Homesteading
The modern homesteading movement encompasses a wide range of beliefs, motivations and activities. But it all has one thing in common: a desire to be self-sufficient.
For many homesteaders, that means not only living off the land, but reducing their reliance on outside sources of power and food.
Local food advocate Michelle Bruhn, a White Bear Lake resident, will release her new book “Small-scale Homesteading: A Sustainable Guide to Gardening, Keeping Chickens, Maple Sugaring, Preserving the Harvest, and More” on March 14. Bruhn is a Master Gardener volunteer, garden educator, farmers market manager and frequent Press Publications’ contributor. She is also founder of ForksInTheDirt.com, a local information hub for gardening topics and farm-to-table living. Bruhn wrote the book with co-author Stephanie Thurow, a homesteader, Certified Master Food Preserver and Master Gardener volunteer from Minneapolis. Thurow has authored the cookbooks “Can It & Ferment It,” “WECK Small-Batch Preserving” and “WECK Home Preserving,” and created the blog “Minnesota from Scratch.” The Press’ asked Bruhn and Thurow the following questions in advance of the book’s publication.
Source: presspubs.com
