The Accidental Homesteader: What I've Learned About Chickens, Compost, and Creating Home

by Kathi Lipp

Overview

Homesteading [hohm-sted-ing]
noun

1. an act or instance of establishing a homestead.
2. the act of loving where you live so much that you actively ignore the fact that your house is trying to kill you on a regular basis.

For Kathi Lipp and her husband, Roger, buying a house in one of the most remote parts of Northern California was never part of the plan; many of life’s biggest, most rewarding adventures rarely are.
 
Kathi shares the hard-won wisdom she’s gained on her homestead journey to help you accomplish more at home, gain fresh perspective, and give yourself grace in the process. Here’s a handful of the lessons Kathi shares:      

• Prepare before the need arises
• Everything is always in process, including us
• Your best household solution is time and patience
• You don’t have to do everything the hard way
• Be open to new and better ways of doing things
• A lot of small changes make a huge difference.

Highly practical, humorous, and inspirational, The Accidental Homesteader will encourage you to live with more peace, joy, and contentment.    
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780736977005
Publisher:	Harvest House Publishers
Publication date:	08/29/2023
Pages:	224
Sales rank:	203,623
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Kathi Lipp is a busy conference and retreat speaker, currently speaking each year to thousands of women throughout the United States. She is the author of The Husband Project and The Marriage Project and has had articles published in several magazines, including Today’ s Christian Woman and Discipleship Journal. Kathi and her husband, Roger, live in California and are the parents of four teenagers and young adults.

Editorial Reviews

05/29/2023

Lipp (The Clutter-Free Home) explains how she and her husband traded a comfortable Silicon Valley townhouse to live in the Northern California mountains in this approachable homesteading guide. After their friends purchased a vacation home, Lipp and her husband began dreaming of living a more remote lifestyle themselves, and despite minimal outdoors knowledge, bought 33 wooded acres in the mountains. In sections divided by season, Lipp shares hard-won wisdom on stockpiling buckets of snow for toilet flushing during winter power outages, starting a vegetable garden in the spring, completing home projects during the summer, and stockpiling food in the fall. In sections describing the couple’s second winter in the mountains, Lipp reflects on the trial and error of their first year, assessing priorities that proved essential (keeping sufficient firewood on hand) and those that didn’t (butchering their own meat). Lipp weaves together nuts-and-bolts tips, encouragement (“It’s amazing what you can accomplish with a little space and a dream”), and a faith element that sometimes feels incongruous—“God is our first thought instead of our last resort when a crisis comes up,” she writes before launching into a section of practical advice on prepping for power outages. Still, those seeking to reconnect with nature will find this informative and inspiring. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly