
Farm DIY
20 Useful and Fun Projects for Your Farm or Homestead
Companion House (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 20. July 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-62008-332-1 (ISBN)
Description
Roll Up Your Sleeves and Build a Better Farm! Loaded with complete plans and easy-to-follow construction tips, this book offers a creative mix of both practical and decorative projects for working and hobby farms. Veteran family farmers and 4-H alumni Samantha and Daniel Johnson present 20 essential projects for aspiring homesteaders. From log jacks, rabbit hutches, and milking stands to a weather vane and a barn quilt, clear step-by-step color photographs guide the reader through each hands-on project. An introduction to the DIY mindset explains the positive benefits and satisfaction of building things yourself, and provides an overview of the basic tools and skills needed to complete each task. Farm DIY also includes a background discussion of farming today, and instructions for building an effective farmer's market display stand for selling your products. Inside Farm DIY - 20 step-by-step, do-it-yourself projects for creating the farm of your dreams. - Build practical items like fences, gates, bee houses, log jacks, rabbit hutches and milking stools. - Make fun items like a weather vane, a barn quilt and a goat see-saw. - Create an attractive display stand for selling your products at farmer's markets. - Easy-to-complete projects all feature inexpensive materials and basic techniques.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 251 mm
Width: 203 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62008-332-1 (9781620083321)
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E-Book
07/2019
CompanionHouse Books
€8.51
Available for download
Persons
Samantha Johnson has collaborated on a number of rural-living guidebooks, including How to Raise Rabbits and Beginner's Guide to Beekeeping. A 4-H alumna who lives on a family farm in northern Wisconsin, Samantha is a certified horse show judge and raises purebred Welsh Mountain ponies and Dutch, Holland Lop, and Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Daniel Johnson is a professional photographer who specializes in imagery of farm life. He is the author of the 4-H Guide to Digital Photography and the coauthor of The Field Guide to Horses.