Regenerate Your Land, Raise Nutrient-Dense Food, and Reclaim Your Family's Future
Blending nourishing Asian recipes, fermentation, Korean Natural Farming, and regenerative homestead practices, this book offers a beautiful path back to food that heals, land that gives, and family traditions that endure.
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The Nourishing Asian Homestead
FORREST PRITCHARD
Courage, grit, and a willingness to dream are three fundamental tenets for any successful farm. Sharing hard-won wisdom, The Nourishing Asian Homestead demonstrates this beautifully and offers a holistic and pragmatic roadmap for turning homesteading dreams into reality.
New York Times–bestselling author of Gaining Ground and Start Your Farm
Joel SALATIN
Anyone wanting to start their homestead journey right, or to take their current endeavor to the next level, will be inspired and challenged by this fantastic book. I can’t recommend it highly enough. If it becomes the go-to guidebook for today’s homesteading generation, we’ll see our grandchildren inherit a different world. Let’s jump in, enjoy the journey, and send some gratitude to Tim and Sophia Eng for investing first in themselves and now in all the rest of us.
Owner, of Polyface Farm; Author,
Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal,
Folks, This Ain't Normal
Shawn and Beth Dougherty
Part instruction manual, part reference guide, this agricultural and culinary compendium by Timothy and Sophia Eng leverages science in defense of tradition in an accessible overview of Asian soil improvement and food processing techniques. To gardeners, homesteaders, and anyone disconnected from an inherited agricultural tradition, The Nourishing Asian Homestead holds out a generous and neighborly helping hand
Authors, The Independent Farmstead and One-Cow Revolution
Nigel Palmer
Wow!! This book is loaded with useful information. Nearly every chapter caused me to say to myself, ‘Oh yeah, I hadn’t considered that.’ The broad spectrum of knowledge presented in this book clearly comes from experience. Recipes—for the soil, plants, animals, and larder, with constant attention to the land—resonate with a deep and nuanced understanding of nature’s annual cycles and flows. Social aspects of homesteading are also covered. Family focus and the limitations of time, skills, and equipment quickly spill over to building community, sharing risk and expenses, and weathering the inevitable difficulties that occur. This is a great reference for the anyone interested in living with the land, with a long view of the world around us.
Author of The Regenerative Grower’s Guide to Garden Amendments
Sally Fallon Morell
Prepare to be amazed at the wisdom and ingenuity of Asian agricultural techniques, from fermented fertilizers providing indigenous microorganisms (IMO) for healthy soil to natural windbreaks and watering systems, along with a myriad of preservation techniques for food and medicines. Then Sophia and Tim supply lots of wonderful recipes for all the healthy food they have produced. The Nourishing Asian Homestead is an inspiring book for homesteaders and gardeners!
President
The Weston A. Price Foundation
what better way to defund monsanto...
than with a great cookbook!
- JOEL SALATIN
World's most famous farmer, author, speaker
Kaylee Richardson
The Nourishing Asian Homestead is a beautiful reminder that some of the greatest wisdom is found in the traditions passed down through generations. Sophie and Tim have created a thoughtful guide that connects healthy soil, nourishing food, and faithful stewardship in a way that feels both practical and deeply inspiring. Their approach encourages us to slow down, care for the land well, and remember that the health of our families begins with the health of the soil beneath our feet. This is a book that will encourage and equip homesteaders for years to come.
Author of The Beekeeper's Apothecary
HILARY BOYNTON
I’ve always dreamed of having a small farm but never truly believed I could do it. Sophia and Tim are the ultimate cheerleaders and mentors, encouraging all of us to do what we can, right where we are. I admire their tenacity, grit, and willingness to model an alternative to our modern culture of competition and convenience. The Nourishing Asian Homestead is timeless in its wisdom and priceless in its value. More than a book, it’s an invitation to reimagine what’s possible. It’s the ultimate conversation starter and a beautiful gift to humanity.
Founder, School of Lunch; coauthor of
The Heal Your Gut Cookbook
Carolyn thomas
I've spent years searching through old manuals and the traditional wisdom of cultures around the world, looking for the timeless practices that help us care for our families and steward the land for generations to come. The Nourishing Asian Homestead beautifully brings that rich Asian heritage into our collective homesteading wisdom, offering practical guidance that is as inspiring as it is deeply rooted in tradition.
from Homesteading Family
Anne Briggs
What Tim and Sophia have accomplished on their land and within their community in such a short time is remarkable, but even more impressive is their willingness to generously share what they’ve learned. For those of you interested in KNF and Bokashi to transform your soil, this book will save you years of research and experimenting, but this book offers that and so much more. The Nourishing Asian Homestead isn’t just another book on gardening or homesteading. It’s about building a life worth living. It bridges ancient wisdom with practical modern application, teaching readers not only how to grow healthier food and healthier soil, but how to cultivate resilient families, thriving communities, and a legacy worth passing on. Whether you’re just starting out or have been homesteading for decades, this is a book you’ll return to again and again.”
Anne of All Trades
Ruthann zimmerman
In The Nourishing Asian Homestead, you are invited into the rich beauty of a culture shaped by generations of gardeners and home cooks. With nourishment at the heart of their book, Sophia and Tim warmly guide readers toward a deeper connection with soil health, wholesome food, and homestead living
Author of The Heart of the Homestead
Ann accetta-scott
As a small family farm that utilizes regenerative farming practices and grows food through the no-dig method, I am blown away by the amount of information Tim and Sophia provide in this one book. The Nourishing Asian Homestead is a reference guide that every beginning or seasoned homesteader should have in their resource library. Discover how to naturally work the land for nutrient-dense foods to nourish the body and soul.
Author, The Farm Girl's Guide to Preserving the Harvest
justin rhodes
The Nourishing Asian Homestead is one of those rare books that expands your thinking while equipping your hands. The Engs bring together Korean Natural Farming, Japanese methods, permaculture, and their lived experience into a holistic approach that ties soil, food, and health into one system. What stands out most is their emphasis on soil as the foundation of everything—something too many homesteading books overlook. And they make it accessible: Whether you’re running a full-scale homestead or working out of a kitchen with a bucket, there are practical, doable techniques here. Their authenticity shows—they live this life, and it comes through in every page. If you apply even a fraction of what they teach, you’ll be ahead of the game in both soil health and your family’s well-being.
Author of The Rooted Life
CHRIS TRUMP
Tim and Sophie are doing the most important work of teaching the next generation. Their daughters are growing up to see and understand the value of being Stewards in nature. In this book they give that same loving attention to the reader. Great care was taken to show you how we arrived at the modern homestead and to equip you with some of the tools you will need. Bring some page tabs or fold the corners, there will be plenty in here that you come back for.
Master Cho’s protégé; founder, Biomei Natural Farming Solutions
At Sprinkle with soil,
Let's Grow, Cook, Eat, and Heal Together
We are Tim and Sophia Eng!
Tim Eng, known as “The Homesteading Agent,” is a West Point graduate, Bronze Star Recipient, Iraq War combat veteran, real estate professional, and homesteading educator. Together, Sophia and Tim help families find and fund their homesteads in all 50 states through real estate, lending, education, and practical land-based wisdom.
Sophia Nguyen Eng is a first-generation Vietnamese American, author, speaker, and growth marketing executive in Silicon Valley who balances her work in the tech startup world with building a regenerative homestead alongside her husband, Tim, in the Appalachian Mountains.
Through Sprinkle With Soil, the Call to Farms podcast, and books, "The Nourishing Asian Kitchen" and the upcoming "The Nourishing Asian Homestead," their mission is to help families answer the call to farm by reconnecting the kitchen, the soil, and the home. They believe the future of food is not one 10,000-acre farm, but 10,000 one-acre farms rooted in nourishment, stewardship, and family resilience.
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