The most basic homesteading skills typically involve gardening, livestock management, food preservation, basic construction, and self-sufficiency skills. Gardening will allow you to produce your own food, while managing livestock can provide you with meat, milk, eggs, and other resources. Knowing how to preserve your food through canning, drying, and fermenting is crucial for maximizing your harvest and ensuring you have supplies year-round. Basic construction skills are needed for building and maintaining structures such as your home, barn, and fences. Lastly, self-sufficiency skills such as knowing how to source and purify water, make your own soap and other household goods, and basic survival skills are also necessary.