Virtual: Creating a Modern Homestead with Author Victoria Pruett

We’ll be chatting with modern day homesteader, blogger, and author Victoria Pruett about her book Creating a Modern Homestead: Traditional Skills for Real, Everyday Life.  Victoria will walk us through many aspects of homesteading, such as cooking from scratch, food preservation, backyard chickens, gardening, natural pest control, and more.  You’ll gain some understanding of what it takes to get closer to nature and less dependent on large, commercial corporations. Hopefully, you’ll find a tidbit or two that you can practice in your daily life. 

This program is offered in collaboration with the Ashland Public Library and is sponsored by the Friends of the Ashland Public Library.

Register directly on Zoom HERE.

About the Book

As our modern lives demand more and more from us, many people long for a slower pace of life. While picking up and moving to the country may not be an option for everyone, it is possible to embrace simple living and more traditional skills no matter where you live. In Creating a Modern Homestead, learn the lost art of from-scratch cooking, practice food security by keeping a deep pantry, find out how to raise backyard chickens, experience the joy of growing your own food (even in a small space), and preserve your own harvest through a variety of methods.

For the last ten years, Victoria Pruett of A Modern Homestead has guided her readers through the process of discovering that they truly can incorporate traditional skills into their everyday routines while they also juggle work, children, and social lives. Though the idea of including traditional skills may conjure images of spending eight hours a day in the kitchen, nothing could be further from the truth. Instead, Victoria offers this book to teach you how to deepen your skillset and increase your self reliance.

About the Author

Victoria Pruett lives on an 8-acre homestead in central Texas with her husband, son, parents, and in-laws.  But her adult life didn’t start out that way.  Although Victoria grew up with grandparents who loved gardening, canning, and scratch-cooking, in 2014 she found herself living in a subdivision house with no yard and dreaming of life on a homestead.  She made city homesteading her passion project — buying food in bulk, growing herbs & tomatoes on the deck, canning in her tiny kitchen, and cooking from scratch.  As her skills & knowledge grew, Victoria created A Modern Homestead online, in order to share her journey and help others learn to live a more traditional life. Today, millions of people visit this site every year for recipes, gardening tips, and other lifestyle strategies to turn their homesteading dreams into a reality.

You can purchase signed and personalized books by Victoria at her website.

RECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded. All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program.