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Introducing… A Year in an Off Grid Kitchen!

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Nov 12, 2020

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I’ve been quiet on this blog for the past few months, because I’ve been working on something very big…

I’ve been busy creating a cookbook that teaches the kitchen skills that are most important on a homestead, as well as a huge amount of adaptable everyday homestead recipes.

When the the panic buying, empty shelves, and restrictive rations hit earlier this year, it was not a problem for my family, because we knew these skills, and knew how to feed ourselves without the supermarket system. With the help of this book, you can learn these skills too.

I’ve created a Kickstarter in order to pre-sell enough copies to cover the printing costs. Running a Kickstarter means we can cut out the middleman, so I’m able to offer you a better price than the future retail one, while also being able to offer extra ebooks and other goodies.

Here’s the link to the Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/706848724/real-food-cookbook-a-year-in-an-off-grid-kitchen?ref=b91p7r

There’s also an earlybird offer of extra stuff for people who back the Kickstarter in the first 48 hours, including the best natural home cleaning book I’ve read, plus documentaries on rocket ovens, hugelkultur, and more. You can find out more about the earlybird offer here: https://permies.com/t/151135/Earlybird-bundle-Grid-Kitchen-Kickstarter

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About Kate Downham

Kate Downham has been growing, preserving, and cooking real food since 2007. She is the author of four books on homestead skills: A Year in an Off-Grid Kitchen, Natural Small Batch Cheesemaking, Backyard Dairy Goats, and Sourdough Without Fail.

Off-grid with her family of nine in the Tasmanian forest, Kate milks her own goats, makes all their cheese, mills all her own grain, and bakes fresh sourdough bread daily.

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One response to “Introducing… A Year in an Off Grid Kitchen!”
  1. Ashley Adamant Avatar
    Ashley Adamant
    Nov 13, 2020

    Hey Kate,

    So excited you’re putting out another book! Just backed it on kickstarter, and shared it on facebook. I really hope you make your minimum to make it happen.

    If you need/want any other help promoting it, let me know.

    -Ashley at Practical Self Reliance

    On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 4:58 PM The Nourishing Hearthfire wrote:

    > thenourishinghearthfire posted: ” I’ve been quiet on this blog for the > past few months, because I’ve been working on something very big… I’ve been > busy creating a cookbook that teaches the kitchen skills that are most > important on a homestead, as well as a huge amount of adaptable” >

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