This is a big, fat, core curriculum handbook with almost 500 pages!!!! Become an expert in all things related to homesteading and survival as you immerse in simpler times. This is for everyone! You can use it as an individual or as a family!

A practical and inspiring curriculum handbook for building essential life skills through hands-on learning, reading, and reflection—designed for families, students, homeschoolers, and lifelong learners. Ages 7 to adult!
Whether you’re living on a farm, preparing for a more self-sufficient lifestyle, or simply wanting to reconnect with meaningful work at home, this book offers a guided journey into 45 time-tested homesteading, homemaking, and hospitality skills.
 
With beautifully illustrated pages and thoughtful prompts, this handbook invites you to explore the value of creating a life rooted in health, purpose, and service.
 
What’s Inside:
44 essential indoor and outdoor skills such as bread baking, gardening, candle-making, foraging, composting, soap-making, and preserving foods
Opportunities to explore the history, cultural traditions, and modern uses of each skill
Space for reflection, personal notes, sketching, journaling, and practical planning
Prompts to explore homesteading hobbies, business ideas, and hospitality applications
Reading and research pages to help you build a resource library and copy meaningful quotes or instructions
Map-based exploration to see where skills originated and are valued around the world
DIY video reflection pages to integrate modern media with traditional skills learning
 
Perfect For:
Homeschool families seeking a meaningful, project-based life skills curriculum
Teens and adults preparing for independent living, entrepreneurship, or homestead life
Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, or inter-generational learning groups
Co-ops and cottage schools looking for a unit study in self-reliance and service
Anyone who wants to return to the beauty of learning by doing
 
Why It Works:
All ages can participate. Younger children can use it with guidance, while teens and adults can explore independently.
Promotes deep learning through doing, thinking, writing, drawing, reading, and research.
Fosters stewardship, creativity, and responsibility—building habits that strengthen families and communities.
Encourages resourcefulness and entrepreneurship, making it ideal for students interested in practical trades or home-based business.
 
Created by bestselling author Sarah Janisse Brown of the Thinking Tree and Notika Pashchenko, this handbook is a powerful tool for reviving the skills that connect us to the land, the home, and one another.