The Suburban Homestead Kitchen

You don't need acres of land to grow food, stock a pantry, preserve the harvest, and make more of what your household uses at home.

The Suburban Homestead Kitchen combines practical homesteading instruction with 200 recipes, pantry staples, mixes, preserving recipes, and from-scratch kitchen basics. Drawing on more than 30 years of hands-on experience, Christina Crum shows how an ordinary suburban home can produce food, reduce grocery costs, and support a well-stocked kitchen.

The book begins outdoors with gardening, raised beds, herbs, cold frames, harvesting, and food storage, then follows that food into the kitchen. Learn how to build a useful dry pantry, make everyday staples instead of buying them, work with flour and sourdough, make simple dairy products, preserve seasonal food, and turn what you have on hand into everyday meals.

Inside you'll find:

• 200 recipes and from-scratch kitchen staples
• Raised-bed and small-space gardening
• Growing and harvesting vegetables, herbs, and fruit
• Cold-frame gardening and extending the growing season
• Harvesting, curing, and storing produce
• Water-bath and pressure canning
• Freezing and other food-storage methods
• Dry-pantry planning and storage
• Homemade pantry staples, mixes, spices, and powders
• Butter, cheeses, and other basic dairy recipes
• Flour, sourdough, breads, and baking
• Everyday meals built around the food you grow and keep on hand

You do not have to do everything in this book to benefit from it. Start with a garden bed, learn to preserve tomatoes, make a few pantry staples, bake bread, or build a better-stocked pantry. Use the sections that fit your household and add new skills when they make sense for you.

The Suburban Homestead Kitchen is written for home cooks and beginning homesteaders who want practical ways to grow food, preserve it safely, cook from scratch, stock their pantry, and rely a little less on the grocery store.