The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!

With easy-to-follow instructions on canning, and pickling, drying, you’ll enjoy your backyard bounty all winter long. The backyard homestead Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre. This comprehensive guide to homesteading provides all the information you need to grow and preserve a sustainable harvest of grains and vegetables; raise animals for meat, eggs, and dairy; and keep honey bees for your sweeter days.

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The Backyard Homestead Seasonal Planner: What to Do & When to Do It in the Garden, Orchard, Barn, Pasture & Equipment Shed

For every critical turn of the year 12 in all, Hansen provides an at-a-glance to-do list along with tips and a more in-depth discussion of key topics for the season. This hardworking addition to the best-selling Backyard Homestead series offers expert advice on what tasks to do around your farm and when to do them — no matter where on the planet you call home.

Author ann larkin hansen sets the priorities for each area of the farm, including the barn, garden, orchard, field, pasture, and woodlot. Easy-reference charts, checklists, and record-keeping sections help you keep track of it all.


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40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead: A Hands-on, Step-by-Step Sustainable-Living Guide Creative Homeowner Includes Fences, Coops, Sheds, Wind & Solar Power, Rooftop & Vertical Gardening

You will also find help on how to expand or contract the projects to suit your needs. Learn all about how to build sheds, top-bar beehive aka the kenyan or tanzanian beehive, exploded views, feeders, installing a solar power system aquaponics and hydroponics: understanding aquaponics, pvc hen pen housing chickens: basics for housing chickens, saltbox garden shed, gates, warré beehive, step-by-step building instructions and exploded views Plumbing and wiring: Plumbing basics, self-watering beds, backyard-homestead shop, picket fence, soil blocks Fences and pens: Fence post basics, building an A-frame chicken tractor Building sheds: Basics for building, understanding hydroponics, outdoor wiring, solar electric fence, grow-light stand, fences, erecting a windmill, how solar works, complete material and cutting lists, supplemental lighting A companion volume to Backyard Homesteading, how to install a hydroponic system Building beehives: Langstroth beehive, goat shed, ground-fault circuit interrupters, freeze-proof watering options, hen pen and hurdle, installing and stretching fences, and other backyard structures to enhance your sustainable living! Garden structures: Raised beds, planters and arbors, basics of a DIY aquaponic system, building a coop and run, roofing alternatives Solar and wind power: Compressor and gearbox windmills, 40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead provides details on how to build more than 40 projects to enhance your sustainable living.

With step-by-step instructions, you'll discover how to build your own feeders, fences, and easy-to-understand techniques, even if you are only moderately handy, exploded views, tools and materials lists, and structures. The projects in this book are designed with simplicity, convenience, and budget in mind.

In the process, you'll save money and have the satisfaction of doing it yourself! Used book in Good Condition.


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The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals: Choose the Best Breeds for Small-Space Farming, Produce Your Own Grass-Fed Meat, Gather Fresh ... Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, Pigs, Cattle, & Bees

The backyard homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals. Even with just a small plot of land, and enjoy healthy, you can become more self-sufficient, save money, delicious animal products. Enjoy a weekend breakfast featuring eggs, bacon, and bees, pigs, and honey from your own chickens, or a holiday meal with your own heritage-breed turkey as the main attraction.

. Used book in Good Condition. Gail damerow covers everything you need to successfully raise your own farm animals, eggs, from selecting the right breeds to producing delicious fresh milk, cheese, honey, and meat.


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The Backyard Homestead Book of Building Projects: 76 Useful Things You Can Build to Create Customized Working Spaces and Storage Facilities, Equip the ... Animals, and Make Practical Outdoor Furniture

Gardeners, small farmers, and outdoor living enthusiasts will love this compilation of 76 rustic DIY projects. The backyard homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals. From plant supports and clotheslines to a chicken coop, a greenhouse, most of the projects are suitable for complete novices, and a root cellar with storage bins, and all use just basic tools and easy-to-find materials.

. You’ll find techniques to build whatever your outdoor world is missing, happily, with additional tips to live sustainably, and independently. Used book in Good Condition.


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The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How: Field-to-Table Cooking Skills

Used book in Good Condition. Andrea chesman shows you how to bridge the gap between field and table, making jams and jellies, milling flour, working with sourdough, covering everything from curing meats and making sausage to canning fruits and vegetables, making braises and stews that can be adapted to different cuts of meat, baking no-knead breads, drying produce, rendering lard and tallow, blanching vegetables for the freezer, making yogurt, making butter and cheese, pickling, and much more.

Growing vegetables and raising livestock is only the beginning of a successful homestead — that fresh food goes to waste unless you can properly prepare, cook, and preserve it. Storey Publishing. You’ll learn all the techniques you need to get the most from homegrown foods, along with dozens of simple and delicious recipes, most of which can be adapted to use whatever you have available.

The backyard homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals.


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The Encyclopedia of Country Living, 40th Anniversary Edition: The Original Manual for Living off the Land & Doing It Yourself

With its origins in the back-to-the-land effort of the late 1960s, Carla Emery’s landmark book has grown into a comprehensive guide to building your sustainable country escape haven, while lowering your carbon footprint in the process. The 40th anniversary edition offers up-to-date and detailed information on the fundamentals of topics like homegrown food; raising chickens, and pigs; beekeeping; food preservation; mail-order supply sourcing; foraging; and much, goats, much more even how to deliver a baby—everything you need to lead a self-sufficient lifestyle in the 21st century.

Basic, and reliable, thorough, this book deserves a place in urban and rural homes alike. Table of contents1 oddments2 introduction to plants3 grasses, rabbit, vine, bush & flavorings6 tree, cows & Canes4 Garden Vegetables5 Herbs & Bramble7 Food Preservation8 Introduction to Animals9 Poultry10 Goats, Grains & Home Dairying11 Bee, Sheep & Pig12 Appendix Used book in Good Condition.

From craft culture to survivalists, homesteaders, and everyone in between there is a desire for a simpler way of life—a healthier, urban farmers, greener, preppers, more self-sustaining and holistic approach to modern life. The knowledge you need to survive and thrive off the grid is at your fingertips in The Encyclopedia of Country Living, the best-selling resource for the homesteading movement.

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The Urban Homestead Expanded & Revised Edition: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City Process Self-reliance Series

The urban homestead is also a guidebook to the larger movement and will point you to the best books and Internet resources on self-sufficiency topics. Written by city dwellers for city dwellers, two-color instruction book proposes a paradigm shift that will improve our lives, this copiously illustrated, our community, and our planet.

Used book in Good Condition. Step-by-step projects, tips, and anecdotes will help get you started homesteading immediately. The backyard homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals. By growing our own food and harnessing natural energy, we are planting seeds for the future of our cities. Learn how to:grow food on a patio or balconypreserve or ferment food and make yogurt and cheeseCompost with wormsKeep city chickensDivert your grey water to your gardenClean your house without toxinsGuerilla garden in public spacesCreate the modern homestead of your dreams Used book in Good Condition.

The expanded, updated version of the best-selling classic, with a dozen new projects. A delightfully readable and very useful guide to front- and back-yard vegetable gardening, food preserving, chicken keeping, food foraging, and other useful skills for anyone interested in taking a more active role in growing and preparing the food they eat.

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The Weekend Homesteader: A Twelve-Month Guide to Self-Sufficiency

Meanwhile, enjoy the fruits of your labor right away as you learn the basics of cooking and eating seasonally, canning, freezing, then preserve homegrown produce for later by drying, or simply filling your kitchen cabinets with storage vegetables. The backyard homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals. Used book in Good Condition.

. Sasquatch Books. The weekend homesteader is organized by month—so whether it’s January or June you’ll find exciting, short projects that you can use to dip your toes into the vast ocean of homesteading without getting overwhelmed. You won't be completely eliminating your reliance on the grocery store, but you will be plucking low-hanging and delicious! fruits out of your own garden by the time all forty-eight projects are complete.

As you become more self-sufficient, prepare for power outages, and tear yourself away from a full-time job, you'll save seeds, while building a supportive and like-minded community. Storey Publishing. If you need to fit homesteading into a few hours each weekend and would like to have fun while doing it, these projects will be right up your alley, whether you live on a forty-acre farm, a postage-stamp lawn in suburbia, or a high rise.

You'll learn about backyard chicken care, how to choose the best mushroom and berry species, and why and how to plant a no-till garden that heals the soil while providing nutritious food. Permaculture techniques will turn your homestead into a vibrant ecosystem and attract native pollinators while converting our society's waste into high-quality compost and mulch.

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Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre

Mini farming self Sufficiency on 1 4 Acre. Because self-sufficiency is the objective, subjects such as raising backyard chickens and home canning are also covered along with numerous methods for keeping costs down and production high. Sasquatch Books. The backyard homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals. Even if you have never been a farmer or a gardener, farm planning, composting, soil fertility practices, this book covers everything you need to know to get started: buying and saving seeds, establishing raised beds, crop rotation, dealing with pest and disease problems, starting seedlings, and much more.

Used book in Good Condition. Mini farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family’s food on just a quarter acre—and earn $10, 000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require. Materials, diagrams, and techniques are detailed with photographs, tools, tables, and illustrations.

Storey Publishing. Used book in Good Condition. Start a mini farm on a quarter acre or less, provide 85 percent of the food for a family of four and earn an income.


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Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century, Revised & Updated

Storey Publishing. Used book in Good Condition. Sasquatch Books. The backyard homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals. Learn how to can vegetables, garden in urban spaces, and the basics of animal husbandry. Self sufficiency for the 21st century is the perfect book to show you just how easy and rewarding green living can be with simple changes that have a major impact.

Learn how to reduce waste, use wind and solar energy to power your home, and grow your own food. Written by bbc personalities dick and James Strawbridge, greener, this manual for the modern age is complete guide to a simpler, and cleaner lifestyle. With step-by-step guidance and techniques, Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century combines traditional skills and crafts with modern technological advances to help you live a more eco-friendly lifestyle.

Perfect for both urban and rural readers, using green cleaners, Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century has detailed illustrations and authoritative advice for tried-and-tested projects, finding natural remedies, including foraging for wild plants, composting, and conserving energy at home. Dk. Mini farming self Sufficiency on 1 4 Acre.

. Take the proper steps to live more sustainably. Used book in Good Condition.


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