101 Basic Homesteading Skills 1. Learn how to safely use a chainsaw 2. Learn how to grow a vegetable plant 3. Learn how to sharpen any edge tool – knife, axe, hoe, chisel etc. 4. Learn basic firearm safety and gun proof your children and grandchildren 5. Learn how to dub a chicken 6. Learn how to read the weather 7. Learn how to spin wool, cotton or flax into thread or yarn on a spinning wheel or with a drop spindle 8. Learn how to use a garden shovel, spade or hoe without hurting your back 9. Learn how to light a fire indoors or outdoors 10. Learn how to go to a country auction and not get skinned 11. Learn how to crochet 12. Learn how to butcher small livestock like rabbits or chickens 13. Learn how to hang clothes on a clothesline 14. Learn basic tractor maintenance 15. Learn the differences between trees and the unique properties of various types of wood 16. Learn how to cook 10 basic meals from scratch 17. Learn how to pasteurize milk 18. Learn how to witch for water with a forked branch or a bent metal hanger 19. Learn how distinguish healthy plants and animals from unhealthy plants or animals 20. Learn basic sewing skills 21. Learn how to set an ear tag or tattoo for animal identification 22. Learn how determine an animal’s age by its teeth 23. Learn how to cut and glaze glass 24. Learn how to drive a standard transmission vehicle 25. Learn how to thaw out frozen pipes without busting them 26. Learn how and when to use hybrid seeds 27. Learn how to hand thresh and winnow wheat or oats and other small grains 28. Learn how to train a working cattle or sheep dog 29. Learn how to read the moon and stars 30. Learn how to make soft or hard cheeses 31. Learn how to live within your financial means 32. Learn how to fillet and clean a fish 33. Learn how use a wash tub, hand-wringer and washboard 34. Learn how to make soap from wood ashes and animal fat 35. Learn how to lay basic brick or build a stone wall 36. Learn basic home canning and food preservation 37. Learn how to save open pollinated seeds 38. Learn how to de-horn livestock 39. Learn how to use an awl and basic leather repair 40. Learn how to make long-term plans for the future – plan an orchard or a livestock breeding program 41. Learn the mental skills necessary to jury rig anything with duct tape, baling twine and whatever is on hand 42. Learn how to read an almanac 43. Learn how to euthanize large livestock 44. Learn how to cook on a cook stove 45. Learn how entertain yourself and live without electronic media 46. Learn how to shear a sheep 47. Learn how to manage human urine and feces without plumbing 48. Learn how to swap, barter and network with like-minded people 49. Learn how to make a candle 50. Learn how to dig and properly use a shallow well 51. Learn how to refinish furniture 52. Learn how drive a draft animal 53. Learn the mental and spiritual skills to realistically deal with life, death and failure 54. Learn how to use non-electric lighting 55. Learn how to caponize a chicken 56. Learn how to restrain large livestock 57. Learn how to use a treadle sewing machine 58. Learn how to give an injection 59. Learn how to properly use a handsaw, hammer & nails, screw driver, wire cutters, and measuring tape 60. Learn how to recognize your own physical and mental skill limits 61. Learn how and when to prune grapes and fruit trees 62. Learn how to hatch out chicken, duck or other poultry eggs 63. Learn how to use a scythe 64. Learn how to skin a furbearer and stretch the skin 65. Learn how to tell the time of day by the sun 66. Learn how to milk a goat, sheep or cow 67. Learn how to stomach tube a newborn animal 68. Learn how to break ground and plow 69. Learn how to use a wood stove and how to bank a fire 70. Learn how to make butter 71. Learn how to knit 72. Learn how to make and use a hot bed or cold frame 73. Learn how to deliver a foal, calf, lamb or kid 74. Learn how to know when winter is over 75. Learn how to plant a tree 76. Learn how to brood day-old chicks 77. Learn how to dye yarn or cloth from plants 78. Learn how to haggle like a horse trader 79. Learn how to bake bread 80. Learn how to use a pressure tank garden sprayer 81. Learn how to halter break a horse or cow 82. Learn how to graft baby animals onto a foster-mother 83. Learn how to weave cloth 84. Learn how grow everyday kitchen herbs 85. Learn how to make sausage 86. Learn how to set and bait traps for unwanted vermin and predators 87. Learn how to grind wheat into flour 88. Learn how to make paper and ink 89. Learn when it is more economical to buy something ready-made or when to make it yourself 90. Learn how to castrate livestock 91. Learn how choose a location for a vegetable garden or orchard 92. Learn how to weave a basket 93. Learn how to use electric netting or fencing 94. Learn how to make fire starters from corn cobs or pinecones 95. Learn how to use a pressure cooker 96. Learn how to correctly attach 3 point hitch implements to a tractor 97. Learn how to trim the hooves of goats or sheep 98. Learn how to sew your own underwear 99. Learn how to make your own wine. 100.Learn basic plumbing and how to sweat copper pipes and joints 101.Learn how to reload ammunition
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