Virtual: “Creating a Modern Homestead” w/Homesteader’s Blogger Victoria Pruett

We’re so excited to be chatting with modern day homesteader, blogger, and author Victoria Pruett about her book “Creating a Modern Homestead: Traditional Skills for Real, Everyday Life”! You all know that we are always trying to find ways to be more sustainable so Victoria will walk us through various aspects of homesteading – cooking from scratch, food preservation, backyard chickens, backyard gardening, natural pest control, etc. so you can get a broad overview of simple life changes that you could make to get closer to nature and less dependent on large, commercial organizations. Hopefully, you’ll find a tidbit or two that you can practice in your daily life. 

Register directly on Zoom HERE.

You can purchase signed and personalized books by Victoria directly using this link:

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

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. Learn the lost art of from-scratch cooking, practice food security by keeping a deep pantry, find out how easy it is 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 teaches you how to deepen your skillset and understanding of self-reliance and how to easily fit simple living into your life in a way that works for you.

About Victoria:

Hi y’all, I’m Victoria Pruett, the writer, and homesteader behind A Modern Homestead. 

On A Modern Homestead, you’ll find from-scratch recipes from our Southern kitchen, homesteading skills that you can pursue from anywhere in the world, and tried-and-true einkorn flour recipes your whole family will love.

In 2014 I was living in a subdivision house with no yard and dreaming of life on a homestead. I had grown up with grandparents on both sides who loved gardening, canning, and scratch-cooking and I knew I wanted to stay connected to those roots.

Doing everything I could to homestead in the city became my passion project. I bought food in bulk on sale at the grocery store and canned it in my tiny kitchen. We grew herbs and tomatoes on a small deck in the backyard, and I worked hard to cook all of our food from scratch, even on a tight budget.

Soon, my passion grew to the point that I knew I wanted to help others learn how to live a more traditional life, even in the city. So, A Modern Homestead was born and I began sharing my journey online with the world.

Today, millions of people visit this site every year to make my recipes and use my gardening tips to turn their homesteading dreams into a reality; it’s both incredibly humbling and a responsibility that I take very seriously!.

Please register for this event and you’ll receive the link in the confirmation and reminder emails – make sure to check your spam folder for them, the email will be coming from Zoom.

This program is sponsored by the Friends of the Ashland Public Library and in partnership with a multitude of MA Libraries.