Enjoy this review done by my mom, Julie, on the latest video in the Homesteading for Beginners Series! ~ M
I am so excited about this review!! I could hardly wait to continue on with the DVD's by Homesteading Productions. A little over a year ago, I sat down and watched Volume 1, 2 and 3 non-stop. I love watching the Harrison family as they brought us the basic of homesteading through this video series. I was very anxious to continue that, once I heard that a Volume 4 was in the works and being produced. Finally, it came! It is a beautiful full 6 disc set that not only continues on homesteading basics, but also contains step by step instructions for many of the projects included.
Each volume in this series can be a stand alone, depending on what you are interested in. Together, these 4 volumes provide an extensive library to homesteading. Volume 4, alone, has over 8 hours of projects and lessons!
While watching the videos for review, I took notes on everything. I have a binder filled with notes for the different volumes. Volume 4 is extensive, covering so many different areas and projects.
Here is just some of the many different areas covered:
- Raising and Caring for Sheep
- From start to finish with wool and turning it into yarn
- Knitting with your wool
- Gardening from starter seed to planting
- Canning basics including: jelly, jams, apple pie filling, peaches, beans, pickles, corn, tomatoes, ketchup, and working with dried beans
- Raising and Caring for Pigs
- Making soap, a mold, and laundry
- Raising and Caring for Cows, Goats, and Turkeys
- Making Cheese
- Felling trees
- Making fire starters and heating with wood
- Raising and Caring for Rabbits
- Building Shelving units
- Raising and Caring for Ponies
- Sewing basics
- Sewing a complete skirt
- Making Sock Dolls
- Quilting and making a Memory Quilt
- Making Bread
- Soaking Nuts
- Protein Bars
These are jammed packed with learning experiences. My kids, age 12 and 10, loved watching them alongside with me. The lessons were easy enough for them to understand and do. They especially enjoyed the Harrison children explaining many of the different homesteading areas. Very entertaining along with educational.
This set, or any of the Homesteading for Beginner Videos, would make a wonderful addition to any family library. They are wonderful to have and be able to return to for refreshing yourself on that particular project. They would also make a wonderful gift. I would highly recommend coming alongside the Harrison family and other friends and experts, as they show you the basics of Homesteading through video.
Until next time, Julie
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Cooking, canning, and raising chickens!
this is an awesome giveaway. I’ve been hoping to purchase the Vol. 4 for sometime. Thank you for the opportunity to enter. God bless.
The homesteading skill I would like to learn most about would be keeping milk goats.
April
All of it, but most of all the sewing and quilting!!!
Making cheese!
I would like to learn how to make a rag rug
Canning
I wouls love to learn about wool and how to make yarn out of it. Something I have always wanted to learn.
I still want to learn beekeeping, goats and more pallet construction.
Canning, sewing, self-reliance!
I would so love to have this book. I am hoping to buy some land in the near future and this would come in so handy. Thank you for all the info you put out there for people like me.
Cheese making
Wow..this sounds amazing…would love the canning, chickens, sheep…oh all of it actually
I would love all of it….
everything!!!!
I would most like to learn soap making. I have made laundry detergent, but a real bar soap from natural ingredients would be lovely to know how to make.
I want to learn more about canning and fermenting foods.
Raising animals. SO COOL!
Would love to read it!
Sounds like a great resource!
Sounds like a great resource! I’d like learn to use my pressure canner.
Learn and identify the wild edible plants – and making soap! Thanks for the giveaway.
Canning, sewing, and caring for chickens
Raising chickens is my new goal for 2013. I’ve convinced my husband : )
I want to learn about making soap and molds. It’s something that has seemed so intimidating to me!
Canning
Sounds like a GREAT book! Would love to have it ! Soap..Rabbits….Making Fire Starters… Yes !!
I’d like to learn Beekeeping. I think it would be a lot of fun!
I would love to finally learn how to knit and crochet.
I’m excited to learn about raising animals! We’d like to raise a pig and possibly a goat! But it is hard to get started for me. There’s so much information out there. This DVD would be a great start with proven methods we could do! Thanks for this giveaway! Knowledge is empowering!
I think the sewing and animal care parts would be most informative for me – but I’d love to see the canning stuff as well!
canning, soap making, bread making, gardening, and cheese making. My husband LOVES homemade cheese and we are new at it.
I most want to learn about sheep and wool.
Canning and cheesemaking!
gardening, chickens, milk cows, cooking vegetables
I want to raise chickens and make quilts.
taking care of live stock
herbalism and spinning wool
I would love to start making soap. We already render lard, and this winter will make lye from wood ash. Next step: Soap making!
I have been WANTING to get these DVDs for ages and your review has made me decide to buy myself a little Christmas gift! They look so fantastic – can’t wait to watch them all!
I want to learn how to make cheese and raise goats, rabbits, and turkeys.
Canning
Kims2312@verizon.net
Canning and quilting. Gardening and keeping chickens!
I want to learn soapmaking
Cooking, canning, how to preserve meat– How to raise chickens– How to grow food– How to make soap— plant herbs for medicinal purposes.
I want to learn all the skills involved in Homesteading. It is my #1 Goal to be homesteading in the next 3 years. I have many skills that will be helpful, though I find everyday new things I want to learn and raising Sheep, Goats and Chickens are at the top of my list! What an awesome opportunity to continue my learning proccess. <3
Food preservation
The ones about making your own food. Cheese, canning etc.
Sure sounds like a good idea for the beginner and even the general people.
Awesome! I would LOVE to win this!
I would love to learn to make wool and use it.. what a great giveaway.. Thanks for the opportunity.
Canning!
I can’t pick just one. I need to learn/work on it all.
Canning, my mom did all the canning growing up, she let us only do the prep work so I have no idea now living on my own how to do it.
I would love to learn how to make cheese and raise a pig!
All of it is very interesting, but probably quilting and spinning most of all. Thank you for this giveaway!
Building shelving units…..why should my husband be the only one to know how?
I’d love to learn about keeping sheep and using their wool. We grew cotton this year for school and are trying to find someone to help us spin it.
I would love to win this, truly an awesome giveaway!
I need and want to learn all of these things and more. I would be particularly interested in learning about sheep care, shearing, and spinning/weaving. I would also like to learn about making cheese and smoking/preserving meat & fish.
Rita at Cashel1916@yahoo.com
There is so much to learn and I want to learn all of it! Right now though the focus is on canning and food preservation techniques.
I would like to learn more about canning, preserving and dried bean ideas!
I am wanting to learn to make cheese. WE have the other three videos and love them. Now we have a milk cow and I need to perfect the cheese making.
Raising chickens
Very interested to see the section on raising sheep!
Raising and caring for cows and goats and also cheese making!!
I would like to learn more about raising chickens, making a rag rug would be nice!
Gosh..there is just so much that I think I could learn from these videos! 
I’d like to learn to sew and to make soap. Fun and useful!
Cheese making. The few times that I have tried have been dismal failures.
Canning, gardening
would love to learn it all – but canning tops the list as it seem doable no matter where you are in life (location wise and finance wise). thanks for the chance to win.
I would love to watch this with my children. Especially cows, gardening, and canning.
Yea! I’m so excited that you are doing this giveaway. I have wanted these DVDs for a while now, but just couldn’t afford them. Thank you, thank you
Candle making or soap making.
Raising and caring for animals.
thanks
Thanks for the opportunity to win this prize!
Oh how wonderful! I only have one of their videos and would love to add to it!!! Thanks so much for the chance!
Just learning to can. Gardening in Northern climates!
I would love to hear more about raising meat, pigs and turkeys.
Thank you for a great giveaway! I’ve been wanting to order these videos for awhile now. I would love to learn to make cheese and rag rugs and to just get a glimpse at the Harrison family’s simple yet busy lifestyle.
Blessings,
Michelle
Sounds very informative. Love to win.
Would love to learn more about raising a pig to butcher.
Absolutley LOVE LOVE LOVE this blog spent many enjpyable hours reading, kep up the good work. Always interested in how to save money.
I would love to care for animals. Thank you for such a great giveaway. (BTW I shared this on Pinterest, since I don’t have a blog.)
Would like to make cheese & soap…could I do that together? lol
It worked for the 3 Stooges back in the day.
I need more info on sheep parasites and cooking efficiently. Thanks for your great blog!@
I’m interested in adapting homesteading to apartment living!
I have been wanting to tap maple syrup, grow ALL our food, and raise our own meat.
Seriously, what homesteading skills am I not interested in mastering would be way shorter, but this year? Raising rabbits & spinning wool.
Hi, I would love to win this for my children. That was all they wanted for Christmas, but then on their own accord asked us to use the money for their Christmas gift to donate to World Vision ministries!!! So I hope I can win this for my babies, they truly grasped the spirit of Christmas!!!
for some reason, I’d really love to learn soapmaking. Lots of things I need to learn, but I guess that appeals to my creative-yet-practical side.
I most would like to learn about making cheese and kefir!
I would like to learn about Cheese making and how to spin wool.
I’d love to learn about raising rabbits. It’s on my list of things to do.
Since our cow has just calved I want to learn about cheesemaking, but there are just too many really that I want to learn!
I want to learn it all! but especially raising chickens for eggs and meat. we are getting our first chickie babies this spring. I am so excited!!!
I want to learn it all!
Learning anything I can will be very exciting;)
Hi, I would love to win this for my children. That was all they wanted for Christmas, but then on their own accord asked us to use the money for their Christmas gift to donate to World Vision ministries!!! So I hope I can win this for my babies, they truly grasped the spirit of Christmas!!
Canning, I just started but it’s a little difficult.
I would like to learn more about animals
All of them!
Raising cows and chickens and canning!
I would love to learn knitting and quilting. Thanks
Making oil lamps
I could REALLY use this!
I would like to learn how to make soap.
I want to learn more about canning and raising livestock.
This looks wonderful! Thank you for having this giveaway!
Would be real nice to own this one !
Making soap! I really want to do it, but the lye scares me!
Sewing a basic skirt would be awesome! I’ve just mastered how to sew a button back on! lol…
I would like to learn about raising pigs. And more about goats, chickens, and turkeys!
Thanks for the giveaway! I am very interested in raising livestock! We have chickens right now, but would love to add to my homestead.
I have volumes 1 and 2 of this series, and I am getting #3 for Christmas. I would love to add #4 to my collection!
My dream, ever since I was a little girl visiting my grandparents dairy, is to live in the country and own a little farm. I would love to have alpacas, sheep, goats, chicken, and yacks (for when my hubby goes hunting). I would love to learn how to take the alpaca and sheep fur/hair (??) and loom it into yarn then crochet little gifts with it. I’d also love to learn how to truely garden (I’m usually a failure each year with my city garden) and can the goodies I get.
We’d love to learn how to raise critters (i.e. cows, goats, chickens, etc)!
successful gardening and storing food
I want to learn
I’ve got a good start on homesteading, but would love to move on to more canning, more gardening, more livestock! Looks like a great set!
The skill I most want to learn about his how to make cheese!