Fix It Before It Breaks: A homestead maintenance year, season by season

Wade Hollis

You will move through a full year of caring for land and building, guided by Wade Hollis's steady, practical voice. Silas Quince narrates with the unhurried cadence of someone who has spent afternoons on a porch, watching weather come in. You will learn to read your roof for trouble while the sky is still clear, to notice how a house expands and contracts with the seasons, and to build rhythms that keep small problems from becoming large ones. Each chapter grounds you in specific tasks: walking fence lines in spring mud, painting eaves in the long summer evenings, putting tools to bed with oil and attention in autumn. The writing smells of sawdust and rain on warm soil. You will finish knowing your own place more intimately, ready to step outside and begin.