The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!
Put your backyard to work! Enjoy fresher, organic, better-tasting food all the time. The solution is as close as your own backyard. Grow the vegetables and fruits your family loves; keep bees; raise chickens, goats, or even a cow. The Backyard Homestead shows you how it's done. And when the...
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Put your backyard to work! Enjoy fresher, organic, better-tasting food all the time. The solution is as close as your own backyard. Grow the vegetables and fruits your family loves; keep bees; raise chickens, goats, or even a cow. The Backyard Homestead shows you how it's done. And when the harvest is in, you'll learn how to cook, preserve, cure, brew, or pickle the fruits of your labor.From a quarter of an acre, you can harvest 1,400 eggs, 50 pounds of wheat, 60 pounds of fruit, 2,000 pounds of vegetables, 280 pounds of pork, 75 pounds of nuts.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781603421386 (1603421386)
ASIN: 1603421386
Publish date: February 11th 2009
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Reference,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Adult,
Environment,
Cookbooks,
Sustainability,
Cooking,
Green,
How To,
Gardening
I really enjoyed this book because it was a great overview of the topic and really got me excited to begin my own endeavors into creating a homestead. My husband and I just purchased 4.5 acres in December, so it's only encouraged me to imagine all the potential opportunities there are for us to beco...
This book contains a really nice overview of many topics for anyone starting out on the path of self-sufficiency. It doesn't go into great detail about any of them but gives a newbie a starting point to begin a more self-sufficient lifestyle and has a decent source of website and book recommendati...
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