40 Preparedness/Homesteading Skills
Taking the time to learn a new skill is a noble pursuit. Here is a list of some common and not so common Preparedness/Homesteading skills. How many do you have already? What do you want to learn next?
In no particular order:
- Starting a fire without matches
- Home Canning
- Sausage Making
- Cooking Over An Open Fire
- Baking Bread At Home
- Dutch Oven Cooking
- Knife And Tool Sharpening
- Planting A Garden
- Composting
- Butchering
- Maintaining An Orchard
- Carpentry
- Making Sourdough
- Cheese Making
- Small Engine Repair
- Smoking Food
- Mechanics
- Dehydrating Food
- Knot Tying
- Hunting
- Sewing
- Fishing
- Tool Maintenance
- Trapping
- Running A Chainsaw
- Splitting Wood
- Foraging Edibles
- Raising Livestock
- Cooking With Staples
- Operating A Generator
- Home Brewing
- Seed Saving
- Soap Making
- Efficiently Heating With Wood
- Firearm Safety
- Plumbing
- Firearm Maintenance
- Making Sauerkraut
- Rendering Lard
- Managing A Woodlot
What makes your list of skills?
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Not bad, 7 out of 40 need work.
All but Soap Making either hubby or I have done enough to not need research for help. Several we have been doing research or have done a little of but NOT enough to be comfortable with on a homestead stituation.
38. Making Sauerkraut
33. Soap Making
27. Foraging Edibles
24. Trapping
13. Making Sourdough
14. Cheese Making
3. Sausage Making
Well,grrr..that made absolutely no sense! What I meant to say was…
All but Soap Making we have been doing research or have done a little of but NOT enough to be comfortable with on a homestead situation. Soap making neither of us has researched or done at all. Except in passing while reading about something else.
I got 13 out of 40. Working on new skills every day.
Don’t forget knitting! You’re going to need socks!
I would add, learning to compost Human Waste for preparedness reasons.
I am a soap maker, so I got that one down… lol