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Book Synopsis The Self-Sufficient Backyard by : Ron Melchiore
Download or read book The Self-Sufficient Backyard written by Ron Melchiore and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Self-Sufficient Backyard is helping Americans transforming from an honest homeowner into an independent, self-sufficient person that has an extra income and doesn't owe anybody a thing. You will not be troubled with what happens to the world around you, because everything you need is where is should be: on your property!
Book Synopsis Backyard Homesteading by : David Toht
Download or read book Backyard Homesteading written by David Toht and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple guide to growing fruits, vegetables, nuts & berries, raising chickens, goats, & bees, and making beer, wine, & cider from your backyard. 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. Inside, you’ll discover how to turn a yard into a productive and wholesome “homestead” that allows you to grow your own fruits and vegetables and raise farm animals, including chickens and goats. You’ll also find the laws and regulations of raising livestock in populated areas, as well as ways to use and preserve the bounty your land produces. GETTING STARTED Benefits of pure food Family recreation Local regulations Potential yields and savings RAISING VEGETABLES AND HERBS Garden planning/layout Structures/irrigation Vegetable profiles Planting techniques Composting/healthy soil Seasonal gardening GROWING FRUITS, BERRIES, AND NUTS Planting fruit trees and bushes Fruit profiles Organic pest control Grafting and pruning Harvesting methods RAISING CHICKENS The joy of chickens Collecting eggs Care and feeding tips Other small animals RAISING GOATS Benefits of goat milk Structures/fencing Care and feeding tips Other large animals BEEKEEPING Benefits of beekeeping Care and harvesting Building hives Collecting honey HARVEST HOME Canning/drying/freezing Making beer, wine, cider Making jerky, sausage Making jams, jellies Pickling/salting/smoking Building root cellars
Book Synopsis The Everything Backyard Farming Book by : Neil Shelton
Download or read book The Everything Backyard Farming Book written by Neil Shelton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-sufficiency doesn't have to mean getting off the grid entirely. That level of independence isn't practical for most people. A backyard farm can provide an abundance of inexpensive food as well as additional income which can bring you real independence. Whether you're a first-timer who wants to start growing vegetables or an experienced gardener looking to expand a small plot into a minifarm, The Everything Backyard Farming Book has all you need, from growing fruits and vegetables to raising animals to preserving and storing food. With this common-sense guide, you will be able to take control of the food you eat - in an urban or suburban setting.
Book Synopsis DIY Projects for the Self-Sufficient Homeowner by : Betsy Matheson
Download or read book DIY Projects for the Self-Sufficient Homeowner written by Betsy Matheson and published by Creative Publishing International. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Step-by-step, how-to projects for home rain collection, solar panels, food storage, solar energy systems, eco-friendly improvements, bee keeping, and more"--Provided by publisher.
Book Synopsis The Self-Sufficient Backyard by : Ben Rinner
Download or read book The Self-Sufficient Backyard written by Ben Rinner and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-13 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Become a Farmer Without Leaving Your Backyard! Have you ever dreamed of growing your own food? Between the fresh air, the exercise, and the savings on rising grocery prices, there are so many great reasons to garden. But you can go one big step further when you start your own mini-farm. With backyard farming, you use the land you already have to grow your own fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices. Some people even raise livestock at home! A mini-farm is easy to start and doesn't have to be expensive. You'll eat healthier, help the environment, and relieve stress. The Self-Sufficient Backyard is a detailed resource for new backyard farmers. No matter where you live, what size your yard is, or how much gardening experience you have, this book will guide you through the steps of creating your own mini-farm. The pages within will show you where and how to start, lead you through the most common challenges, and teach you how to create the perfect homestead garden for your backyard. In The Self-Sufficient Backyard, you'll learn: How to assess your land to decide what plants (and animals!) to raise The best growing methods for small spaces, like companion planting and intercropping Tips to water, fertilize, and keep away pests to make your plants as healthy as possible The most popular crops for backyard farmers, from peas and carrots to turmeric, ginger, and fenugreek How to plant fruit trees and grow apples, cherries, peaches, or apricots in your backyard Advice to consider raising chickens, goats, pigs, fish, bees, or even llamas The steps to harvest your produce the right way, then store and preserve the delicious result Ways to extend your growing season so you'll have fresh food in the spring, fall, and winter How to sell your extra food, turning your mini-farm into a lucrative small business ... and much more! It doesn't matter if you're young or old, brand new or experienced, or if your farm is a hobby or a business. This guidebook has detailed, comprehensive advice for every step of the way; from starting your backyard farm to becoming self-reliant. The land you already have can become a sustainable farm or even a source of income. Your dreams of fresh, local food can come true when you pick up The Self-Sufficient Backyard. Stop dreaming and start farming, using the land you already own. Scroll up and one-click The Self-Sufficient Backyard now!
Download or read book Mini Farming written by Brett L. Markham and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Start a mini farm on a quarter acre or less and provide 85 percent of the food for a family of four and earn an income."
Book Synopsis Off Grid and Free by : Ron Melchiore
Download or read book Off Grid and Free written by Ron Melchiore and published by . This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Off Grid and Free: My Path to the Wilderness is the story of the journey Ron Melchiore undertook as a young man from the city, first to homesteading in northern Maine and then to living in the bush of northern Saskatchewan. He has lived off grid since approximately 1980 and speaks candidly about the joys and the tribulations of his chosen lifestyle. In this adventure, Ron shares the diversity of his experiences in an easy-to-read, humorous, and sometimes harrowing narrative. The book includes his hiking of the 2,100 mile Appalachian Trail in winter, bicycling across the United States, homesteading off grid, the terror of being surrounded by a wildfire, surprise encounters with bears, and more. For readers with an outdoors spirit, people with an off grid and self-sufficiency bent, and dreamers who like to read about adventure, Ron hopes to inspire others to "take the road less traveled."
Book Synopsis Rural Renaissance by : John D. Ivanko
Download or read book Rural Renaissance written by John D. Ivanko and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ’60s it was called the "back to the land" movement, and in Helen and Scott Nearings’ day, it was "living the good life." Whatever the term, North Americans have always yearned for a simpler way. But how do you accomplish that today? Blending inspiration with practical how-to’s, Rural Renaissance captures the American dream of country living for contemporary times. Journey with the authors and experience their lessons, laughter and love for the land as they trade the urban concrete maze for a five-acre organic farm and bed and breakfast in southwestern Wisconsin. Rural living today is a lot more than farming. It’s about a creative, nature-based and more self-sufficient lifestyle that combines a love of squash, solar energy, skinny-dipping and serendipity . . . The many topics explored in Rural Renaissance include: "right livelihood" and the good life organic gardening and permaculture renewable energy and energy conservation wholesome organic food, safe water and a natural home simplicity, frugality and freedom green design and recycled materials community, friends and raising a family independence and interdependence wildlife conservation and land stewardship. An authentic tale of a couple whose pioneering spirit and connection to the land reaches out to both the local and global community to make their dream come true, Rural Renaissance will appeal to a wide range of Cultural Creatives, free agents, conservation entrepreneurs and both arm-chair and real-life homesteaders regardless of where they live. Lisa Kivirist and John Ivanko are innkeepers, organic growers, copartners in a marketing consulting company, and have previously published books. John is also a photographer. Former advertising agency fast-trackers, they are nationally recognized for their contemporary approach to homesteading, conservation and more sustainable living. They share their farm with their son, two llamas, and a flock of free-range chickens. Rural Renaissance also offers a foreword by Bill McKibben.
Book Synopsis Weekend Homesteader: April by : Anna Hess
Download or read book Weekend Homesteader: April written by Anna Hess and published by Wetknee Books. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve months to self-sufficiency! This fully updated second edition of the popular Weekend Homesteader series includes exciting, short projects that you can use to dip your toes into the vast ocean of homesteading without getting overwhelmed. 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. The April volume includes the following projects: * Find room to homestead * Survey your site * Plan your summer garden * Start a no-till garden with a kill mulch The second edition has been revised and expanded to match the paperback, with extra photos and feedback from weekend homesteaders just like you, plus permaculture-related avenues for the more advanced homesteader to explore.
Book Synopsis Self-Sufficiency by : Abigail Gehring
Download or read book Self-Sufficiency written by Abigail Gehring and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now, more than ever, people across the country are turning toward simpler, greener, and quieter ways of living—whether they’re urbanites or country folk. Following in the footsteps of Back to Basics and Homesteading, this large, fully-illustrated book provides the entire family with the information they need to make the shift toward self-sufficient living. Self-Sufficiency provides tips, advice, and detailed instructions on how to improve everyday life from an environmentally and organic perspective while keeping the focus on the family. Readers will learn how to plant a family garden and harvest the produce; can fruits and vegetables; bake bread and cookies; design interactive and engaging “green” projects; harness natural wind and solar energy to cook food and warm their homes; boil sap to make maple syrup; and build treehouses, furniture, and more. Also included are natural crafts readers can do with their kids, such as scrapbooking, making potato prints, dipping candles, and constructing seasonal decorations. Whether the goal is to live entirely off the grid or just to shrink their carbon footprints, families will find this book a thorough resource and a great inspiration.
Book Synopsis 40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead by : David Toht
Download or read book 40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead written by David Toht and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-01 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn all about how to build sheds, feeders, fences, and other backyard structures to enhance your sustainable living! Garden structures: Raised beds, planters and arbors, self-watering beds, grow-light stand, soil blocks Fences and pens: Fence post basics, picket fence, solar electric fence, installing and stretching fences, hen pen and hurdle, gates, PVC hen pen Housing chickens: Basics for housing chickens, building a coop and run, complete material and cutting lists, exploded views, building an A-frame chicken tractor Building sheds: Basics for building, goat shed, saltbox garden shed, backyard-homestead shop, roofing alternatives Solar and wind power: Compressor and gearbox windmills, how solar works, erecting a windmill, installing a solar power system Aquaponics and hydroponics: Understanding aquaponics, understanding hydroponics, basics of a DIY aquaponic system, how to install a hydroponic system Building beehives: Langstroth beehive, Warré beehive, top-bar beehive (aka the Kenyan or Tanzanian beehive), step-by-step building instructions and exploded views Plumbing and wiring: Plumbing basics, ground-fault circuit interrupters, freeze-proof watering options, outdoor wiring, supplemental lighting A companion volume to Backyard Homesteading, 40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead provides details on how to build more than 40 projects to enhance your sustainable living. The projects in this book are designed with simplicity, convenience, and budget in mind. You will also find help on how to expand or contract the projects to suit your needs. With step-by-step instructions, tools and materials lists, exploded views, and easy-to-understand techniques, even if you are only moderately handy, you'll discover how to build your own feeders, fences, and structures. In the process, you'll save money and have the satisfaction of doing it yourself!
Book Synopsis The Backyard Homestead by : Carleen Madigan
Download or read book The Backyard Homestead written by Carleen Madigan and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2009-02-11 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. With easy-to-follow instructions on canning, drying, and pickling, you’ll enjoy your backyard bounty all winter long. Also available in this series: The Backyard Homestead Seasonal Planner, The Backyard Homestead Book of Building Projects, The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals, and The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How. This publication conforms to the EPUB Accessibility specification at WCAG 2.0 Level AA.
Book Synopsis The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency by : John Seymour
Download or read book The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency written by John Seymour and published by Dorling Kindersley Ltd. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embrace off-grid green living with the bestselling classic guide to a more sustainable way of life, now with a brand new foreword from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. John Seymour has inspired thousands to make more responsible, enriching, and eco-friendly choices with his advice on living sustainably. The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency offers step-by-step instructions on everything from chopping trees to harnessing solar power; from growing fruit and vegetables, and preserving and pickling your harvest, to baking bread, brewing beer, and making cheese. Seymour shows you how to live off the land, running your own smallholding or homestead, keeping chickens, and raising (and butchering) livestock. In a world of mass production, intensive farming, and food miles, Seymour's words offer an alternative: a celebration of the joy of investing time, labour, and love into the things we need. While we aren't all be able to move to the countryside, we can appreciate the need to eat food that has been grown ethically or create things we can cherish, using skills that have been handed down through generations. With refreshed, retro-style illustrations and a brand-new foreword by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, this new edition of Seymour's classic title is a balm for anyone who has ever sought solace away from the madness of modern life.
Book Synopsis The Beginner's Guide to Backyard Homesteading by : Lisa Lombardo
Download or read book The Beginner's Guide to Backyard Homesteading written by Lisa Lombardo and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farm to table takes on new meaning with this comprehensive beginner's guide to creating a backyard homestead. Learn how to convert your yard into a sustainable and self-reliant space that reduces waste and puts food on your plate. Filled with practical advice and straightforward lessons, you'll soon see how feasible it is to keep poultry or can fruit you've grown. Whether you have a tiny plot or a large estate, The Beginner's Guide to Backyard Homesteading demonstrates that anyone can start living off their land. This homesteading book offers up indispensable tips and tricks, including: Project action plans—Kick-starting your homesteading journey is a breeze with action plans that help you break down necessary materials, project costs, monthly goals, and more. Seasonal timelines—Knowing what to plant and when is crucial to your success. These precise timelines reveal the ideal schedules for everything from starting seedlings to harvesting honey. Exhaustive instructions—Learn how to build the infrastructure you need with easy-to-follow directions. You'll find yourself constructing raised beds and planting fruit trees in no time. Jump into a more sustainable, affordable, and fulfilling lifestyle with The Beginner's Guide to Backyard Homesteading.
Book Synopsis Backyard Self-sufficiency by : Jackie French
Download or read book Backyard Self-sufficiency written by Jackie French and published by Aird Books Pty.Limited. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-sufficient gardens are beautiful -- a ramble of productivity, and a profusion of smells and colour. Jackie will help you to create a 'Garden of Eden' in your own backyard.
Download or read book Edible Backyard written by Kath Irvine and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this practical step-by-step guide, gardening teacher Kath Irvine shares her wealth of knowledge from more than 20 years of helping Kiwi gardeners design, build, grow and maintain their own productive edible gardens. Kath's sage, hands-on, often humorous advice steps readers through everything they need to know to grow great produce at home, including garden design, tools and equipment, seasonal planting advice, soil fertility, seed-saving basics, managing pests and diseases, and how to incorporate organic and permaculture gardening methods into any home garden. While documenting a year on her own property, Kath shows how you can successfully produce bountiful crops throughout the seasons to provide a steady, daily harvest with minimal wastage. The book is illustrated with hundreds of stunning photographs and helpful hand-drawn illustrations that share clever design concepts and planting plans for gardens of all shapes and sizes. Kath is the perfect guide, and this easy-to-understand, comprehensive book is ideal for gardeners at any skill level, from beginners setting up a new garden from scratch, to intermediate trouble-shooters, to advanced green-thumbs seeking deeper knowledge.
Book Synopsis The Self-Sufficient Gardener by : John Seymour
Download or read book The Self-Sufficient Gardener written by John Seymour and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 1979-02-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carefully explains the entire process of growing more than one hundred twenty-five vegetables, fruits, and herbs, recommending which vegetables to grow according to the space available and how to improve soil conditions
