Suggests organic methods for growing plants and raising animals on a small plot of land, explains how to determine the proper times for planting, and provides tips for using and preserving food.
If you want to take control of the food you eat and the products you use, Backyard Homesteading will help you learn how to do it—even if you live in an urban or suburban house on a typical-size lot.
This practical, informative volume also provides plenty of room for your own record-keeping.
Expert woodworker Spike Carlsen offers simple, fully illustrated instructions for projects that homesteaders, gardeners, and outdoor enthusiasts can build themselves.
Andrea Chesman shows you how to bridge the gap between field and table, covering everything from curing meats and making sausage to canning fruits and vegetables, milling flour, working with sourdough, baking no-knead breads, making braises ...
Gardeners, small farmers, and outdoor living enthusiasts will love this compilation of 76 rustic DIY projects.
Stuff homemade sausages with meat. Fill your omelet with tangy, creamy cheese. Stir sweet honey into tea or coffee. Fry a steak or bacon as a savory side. Top off your meal with a cold glass of milk.
From the author of Back to Basics, this updated guide to green living in the city, country, or suburbs is “a vast wealth of resources for the eco-minded” (Booklist).
Achieve both aims with your yard and this book. The Beginner's Guide to Homesteading offers easy-to-follow instructions to raise crops and small farm animals, maximize harvests, and even make some extra money.
Join the Backyard Farming Movement and Turn Your Home into a Homestead! Backyard Farming: Homesteading is your all-in-one guide to successfully turning your rural property, suburban home, or urban dwelling into a productive food oasis.
Provides details on how to build more than 40 projects--sheds, feeders, fences and other structures--to enhance readers' sustainable living. Original.