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A Year in an Off-Grid Kitchen: Homestead Kitchen Skills and Real Food Recipes for Resilient Health
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Learn the skills that helped our ancestors to thrive in harsh times.
Discover the freedom and satisfaction of a homestead kitchen - wherever you live.
In an era of rising costs, fragile supply chains, and ultra-processed foods, A Year in an Off-Grid Kitchen gives you the tools to feed your family nourishing, real food made entirely from scratch.
This seasonal homestead cookbook guides you through a full year of traditional cooking, preservation, and resilient kitchen practices. Drawing from years of hands-on experience on a working off-grid homestead, Kate Downham shares practical, adaptable methods that shine with or without modern utilities.
Whether you're fully off-grid, homesteading, or simply want a more resilient and self-sufficient kitchen, you'll slash grocery dependence and create wholesome meals from basic ingredients.
Inside you'll find:
- Comprehensive charcuterie and meat curing - Make your own bacon, ham, salami, chorizo, and more using traditional no-electricity methods
- Homemade dairy - Cheese, butter, yoghurt, kefir, ice cream, and more
- Homemade staples from scratch - mustard, mayonnaise, ketchup, bbq sauce, breakfast foods, and other pantry essentials without special equipment
- Reliable food preservation - Tried-and-tested recipes for ferments, jams, pickles, canning, dehydrating, and more
- Naturally leavened sourdough - Reliable breads, pancakes, crackers, and baked goods using fresh-milled flour and wild yeast
- Over 130 hearty, family-friendly recipes organised by the rhythms of the homestead year: vibrant summer garden harvests, cozy winter one-pot meals, spring foraging, autumn preserving, and everything in between
- Off-grid kitchen wisdom - Cooking on wood stoves, fridge-free living, deep food storage, waste reduction, batch cooking, and meal planning strategies that make from-scratch cooking easier and more joyful every day
Written in Kate's warm, approachable style, this book makes ancestral skills accessible for beginners while offering fresh inspiration for experienced cooks.
Master timeless techniques, embrace seasonal abundance, and build lasting food security. Get your copy today and start your journey toward true kitchen independence.
- Print length222 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMarkensgrode
- Publication dateAugust 3, 2021
- Dimensions8.25 x 0.6 x 10.75 inches
- ISBN-100648466167
- ISBN-13978-0648466161
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Editorial Reviews
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"This beautiful and informative book is like a match made in heaven of Sally Fallon's Nourishing Traditions cookbook and Jessica Prentice's Full Moon Feast, with a twist of sur-vival handbook. Woven amid all the clear and practical recipes to nourish your body is homage to nature's beauty, which will nourish your soul.
Downham invites you into her simple existence in her simply beau-tiful world. Built on a foundation of permacul-ture principles, she has created an autonomous life that is fueled by grass-fed animal fat and dedicated to reliance on nutrient-dense foods. Her seasonally appropriate eating suggestions entice us into this way of living with her "re-silient recipes" that are simple to follow, use local and staple foods, nourish good health and energy, and delight the taste buds.
This beautiful cookbook and practical homesteading guide gets a big thumbs up!"
Weston A Price Foundation
"I love the intuitive approach to real food and seasonal eating in Kate Downham's A Year in an Off-Grid Kitchen. Recipes are thoughtful, nutrient-dense and, above all else, approachable."
Jenny McGruther, Nourished Kitchen
"An excellent addition to every homestead library."
Leigh Tate, 5 Acres and a Dream
"Full of homestead wisdom, healthy recipes, and helpful tips, Kate's book is a great resource even if you aren't off-grid or just one day aspire to be. The seasonal organization coupled with discussing skills and methods at just the right time makes this a great guide to learning to live more in tune with nature and with less reliance on modern conveniences and contraptions."
John Moody, author of The Frugal Homesteader
"Way more than a cookbook! An essential guide for making your own food from homestead to table. The book is full of straightforward, practical, doable recipes and techniques specific to the needs of a homestead kitchen.
Mouth-watering pictures capture the beauty and simplicity of the dishes. They look like something I can imagine on my own table, and give motivation to try the recipe myself. The organization of the book by season gives it a kind of follow along quality that makes it fun and gives a feeling of connectedness to the author and other homesteaders. I imagine others are probably cooking the same seasonal dishes or working hard to preserve the surplus of a seasonal harvest.
Definitely recommend to anyone who dreams of providing all their own food someday!"
Amy Arnett, Permies.com staff reviewer
"While there are plenty of sources out there-you can watch endless sourdough-making videos on YouTube, take fermentation classes, and Google 'elderberry recipes' 'til the cows come home-it's the rare source that cuts through all the noise and delivers practical, time-tested techniques based on a real, honest-to-goodness life of homesteading. A Year in an Off-Grid Kitchen is that rare source."
Brunette Gardens
Product details
- Publisher : Markensgrode
- Publication date : August 3, 2021
- Language : English
- Print length : 222 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0648466167
- ISBN-13 : 978-0648466161
- Item Weight : 1.49 pounds
- Dimensions : 8.25 x 0.6 x 10.75 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,565,549 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,174 in Canning & Preserving (Books)
- #1,511 in Seasonal Cooking (Books)
- #1,966 in Natural Food Cooking
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About the author

Kate Downham has been growing, preserving, and cooking real food since 2007. Living off-grid with her family of nine in the Tasmanian forest, she milks her own goats, makes all their cheese, mills her own grain, and bakes fresh sourdough bread daily.
She is the author of four practical homesteading books: A Year in an Off-Grid Kitchen, Natural Small Batch Cheesemaking, Backyard Dairy Goats, and Sourdough Without Fail.
With over 15 years of hands-on experience, Kate’s books make traditional skills accessible and achievable. Whether you’re a complete beginner, a suburban gardener, or an experienced homesteader, her clear, step-by-step guides will help you master natural cheesemaking, whole-grain sourdough baking, food preservation, dairy goats, and nutrient-dense real food - no matter where you live.
Join Kate’s free newsletter, The Nourishing Hearthfire, for recipes, tutorials, and friendly support on your own real food and homesteading journey.
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- 5 out of 5 stars
Great book, lots of great recipes
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2021This book has great recipes for everyone, altho it's title is off grid kitchen there are plenty of instructions on doing this in a regular kitchen. This book is about using solid, healthful ingredients and making good wholesome food from scratch. There are even gluten free options in here!
I've lived off grid but currently grid tied as we finish my boyfriend's time in the Navy. I like knowing that I can live comfortably off grid, not just survive, if I needed to. My partner and I intend to move a bit remotely after he gets out and he's becoming more and more interested in simpler solutions that are healthier for our mind and body.
I have difficult medical issues from my time in the Marines and food is important, books like this fit us now, even tied to the grid and later when we aren't grid dependant.
Basically, if you're interested in some good wholesome recipes check this book out. I found it on Kickstarter originally and am super glad I did!
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Survival book
Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2025Great price for your item thank you
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Amazing, nourishing recipes!
Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2022I am relatively new to the homestead lifestyle and have long admired an off the grid means of cooking and living. I stumbled upon this book on Amazon, and with hesitation due to only a handful of reviews, I spent the $28 and crossed my fingers! I have made a number of recipes from this book and we are just in love. The food is nourishing, wholesome, and comforting and uses REAL ingredients. I love knowing that I am putting real nutrition in my family’s bodies and giving them nothing but the best. I definitely recommend this book, beginners and masters alike!
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Amazing
Reviewed in the United States on September 13, 2021I have already read through this book twice. It has earned a permanent spot in my kitchen. There is an enormous amount of valuable information. I couldn't be happier about this purchase.
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Unique approach
Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2021This is a winner. A must have on your shelf for eating seasonally. Beautiful and full of accessible tips and recipes.
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Huge variety
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2022loved the variety of topics covered as well as the depth provided.
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Definitely a mindchanger...
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2026I have to admit that I was not the ideal candidate for this cookbook. I do can vegetables with canner and use water baths every now and again for salsas and jam but this was an entirely different level. This off grid book provides information not only on canning, but butchering meat, fermenting and living off the land. Definitely a necessity if you find yourself ever in a situtation where you don't have access to grocery stores or want to start a more organic or healthier lifestyle by living off the land. there are some great recipes and you know where the ingredients come from that gives you a comforting state of mind. It is a keeper. I rec'd this book and wanted to leave an honest review.
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Grid
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2026this book started out as a couple experiment. we were going to take a breakfast, lunch, dinner recipe and see if we could do it. what started out as fun became so much more. there is so much wonderful helpful information for the times we are currently living in. with covid i think we all learned to be more self sufficient and this book will do that for you
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carl5 out of 5 starsBook
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 14, 2024Excellent info on storing and preparing food, and some good recipes
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