Off-Grid Homestead Cookbook Kickstarter - November/December 2020

  $15,009!!!  

Woo hoo!!!

I'm cheering you on!!!

AU$ 21,104
pledged ($15,585usd)

491%
funded

413
backers

13

Less than $900aud to go and we're at the 100% Rye stretch goal!

Less than 500aud from the stretch goal!

And over 500% funded!

Getting closer... 1 more hardcover and we will have reached the stretch goal!

AU$ 21,938
pledged

511%
funded

427
backers

11
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We've reached the 100% Rye stretch goal!

Announcement of the next stretch goal coming soon...

New stretch goal announced! More cheese!

$24,000aud ($17,750usd)

While working on this cookbook, I’ve also been slowly distilling more of my homestead cheese knowledge into an ebook.

A Year in an Off-Grid Kitchen contains all you need to know to get started with home cheesemaking, and all the important recipes. I know that there are also people out there who want to know even more about cheese - more recipes, and more understanding about the processes, and for this a second book is needed... Small Batch Natural Cheesemaking answers even more “why?” and “how?” questions about why certain things are done, so that you can more affectively troubleshoot, experiment, and confidently go about cheesemaking even if you have to go and deal with a homestead emergency in the middle of the process. Not only will you get even more cheese recipes from this book, but also an understanding about why each process is done, and how it works.

If we reach this stretch goal, I will give a copy of this ebook to everyone that has chosen a reward level with cooking club membership - this includes the ultimate supporter level, which has all the other extra goodies included too.

Wow, I wasn't expecting to get close to this next stretch goal so quickly! Not long now and I'll be announcing another one!

AU$ 23,434
pledged ($17429usd)

546%
funded

449
backers

9
days to go

$17,751 USD

I think you made it!

New stretch goal: Bundle of homesteading, cooking, and gardening ebooks!
$31,000aud ($23,075usd)

Fellow Permies staff member Leigh Tate is an experienced homesteader who has many creative ideas towards self reliance, and I’m really pleased to be offering some of her homestead wisdom up as a stretch goal. There are four ebooks on offer from the little series of homestead how-tos:

• How To Preserve Eggs: freezing, pickling, dehydrating, larding, water glassing, & more

• How To Bake Without Baking Powder: modern and historical alternatives for light and tasty baked goods

• How To Garden For Goats: gardening, foraging, small scale grain and hay, & more

• How To Grow Ginger: how to grow, harvest, use, and perpetuate this tropical spice in a non-tropical climate



A few things covered in these books:

How To Freeze Eggs

How To Pickle Eggs

How To Dehydrate Eggs

How To Water Glass Eggs

How To Lime Eggs

How To Lard (Or Oil) Eggs

How To Have Fresh Eggs All Winter

Are There Substitutes for Baking Soda?

Before There Was Baking Soda: Potash, Pearlash, & Saleratus

Experiments in Baking with Wood Ash

Ash Water Vs. Lye Water Vs. Lye Water: Are They All the Same?

Other Historical Leaveners

To Substitute Sourdough Starter for Baking Powder

To Substitute Eggshell for Baking Soda

Growing ginger and keeping a continual supply

How To Feed Garden Produce to Goats

Small Scale Grains, Pasture, and Hay

Stover - What It Is and How To Feed It

How To Forage For Your Goats

How To Make Your Own Vitamin & Mineral Mix for goats

These ebooks will give you even more helpful homestead knowledge and kitchen skills. You can find out more about them here: http://kikobian.com/little_series.html

Everyone at the ultimate supporter level and up will receive these ebooks if the stretch goal is reached!

New backer levels!
I’ve added some more levels for multiple books above the “ultimate supporter” level.

These backer levels do not include the extra stuff at the ultimate supporter level, but will still include the stretch goals! There is now the option to choose 3 paperbacks or 3 hardcovers, or a combination of paperbacks and hardcovers. Any extra books beyond this can be added as add ons.

Options and add ons
I've had some feedback that the new Kickstarter add-ons feature is not working for everyone, and have added a couple more backer levels -  ‘paperback plus ebook’,  ‘hardcover plus ebook’, and ‘paperback plus ebook plus cooking club'. If you've been trying to add an ebook as an add on and it hasn't worked, there are now new backer levels set up for you.


Book update
The proofing process is going well, and I am working on creating the indexes. The first index I'm creating is by ingredient, so that you can easily come in from the garden or market with a basket full of something, turn to the back of the book, and find many recipes where it can be used.

1 week to go!

AU$ 25,459
pledged (S18897usd)

593%
funded

485
backers

5
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AU$ 26,037
pledged ($19,395usd)

606%
funded

493
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5
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Over 500 backers now!

AU$ 26,515
pledged ($19,655usd)

618%
funded

507
backers

3
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Lots of new backers from the daily-ish email today! Thank you Permies!

Being counted down in hours rather than days now!

AU$ 28,770
pledged ($21,668usd)

670%
funded

568
backers

52
hours to go

I just went to go buy it, and Kickstarter no longer takes Discover credit cards. That's a huge bummer!

$25,106 USD!!

Yay!!

24 hours to go!

Thank you Nicole and Permies for adding this to the weeklyish!

On the front page of Kickstarter again!

In the 'Taking off' section.

Thank you Permies for helping it to take off!

We've reached the homestead ebook bundle stretch goal!

All backers at 'ultimate supporter' and up now also get a bundle of some of Leigh Tate's Little Series of Homestead How-Tos!

AU$ 33,519
pledged ($25,244usd)

781%
funded

664
backers

22
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5 hours to go!

700 backers now!

3 hours to go!

Being counted down in minutes now! 98 minutes to go!

40 minutes to go!

I've set up a review thread here: https://permies.com/wiki/152738/Year-Grid-Kitchen-Kate-Downham

I've also set up some pre-order pages for anyone that missed out on the Kickstarter.

Pre-order the paperback here
Pre-order the hardcover here
Pre-order paperback with cooking club membership here
Pre-order hardcover with cooking club membership here

I just got my book today in Texas and I’m so excited to try out the recipes! I love that they seem to simple and versatile. I’m not a natural cook so it can be stressful to me at times, but your book looks like it will be a great guide to get me going. Especially on things like bone broth I have always intended to do but never have...

We got our book and it's great! Thanks Kate for putting it all together!

I forgot to post mine!

I'm thrilled with mine too!

How are you all enjoying the book?

I've just posted a new Kickstarter update, because I need some help to get this book into more kitchens.

Here's the update: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/706848724/real-food-cookbook-a-year-in-an-off-grid-kitchen/posts/3263698/

There was a weird glitch and the paperback was unavailable for most of July and it's now less visible as a result, with less people finding out about it. The release date for a new version of the paperback is August the 3rd.

If you could take the time to share a link to the book somewhere, or to write a review, it would greatly be appreciated!

The Amazon link is here: https://www.amazon.com/Year-Off-Grid-Kitchen-Homestead-Resilient/dp/0648466167/?tag=pfa12-20

International people will probably find Book Depository easier here: https://www.bookdepository.com/Year-Off-Grid-Kitchen-Kate-Downham/9780648466161

I posted a blurb about it, Tuesday, on my Facebook page, with the Amazon link, of course. I think it's very well done, and very high quality!

Carla Burke wrote:I posted a blurb about it, Tuesday, on my Facebook page, with the Amazon link, of course. I think it's very well done, and very high quality!

Thank you!