Backyard Homesteading
A Back-to-Basics Guide to Self-Sufficiency
Published on 15. December 2021
256 pages
978-1-60765-441-4 (ISBN)
Description
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
- Garden planning/layout
- Structures/irrigation
- Vegetable profiles
- Planting techniques
- Composting/healthy soil
- Seasonal gardening
- Planting fruit trees and bushes
- Fruit profiles
- Organic pest control
- Grafting and pruning
- Harvesting methods
- The joy of chickens
- Collecting eggs
- Care and feeding tips
- Other small animals
- Benefits of goat milk
- Structures/fencing
- Care and feeding tips
- Other large animals
- Benefits of beekeeping
- Care and harvesting
- Building hives
- Collecting honey
- Canning/drying/freezing
- Making beer, wine, cider
- Making jerky, sausage
- Making jams, jellies
- Pickling/salting/smoking
- Building root cellars
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David Toht
Backyard Homesteading
Book
12/2011
Creative Homeowner Press,U.S.
€35.60
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Person
Dave Toht, a former contractor with decades of hands-on experience, fondly remembers his first house located in the sometimes frigid, sometimes frying Midwest. Built in 1854, it was loaded with opportunities for caulking, glazing, weatherstripping and insulating. He has written or edited more than 6 books on home repair and remodeling.
Content
Introduction 1. Planning Your Farmstead 2. Raising Table Vegetables 3. Growing Fruit 4. Raising Chickens 5. Raising Goats 6. Bee Keeping 7. Harvest Home: Preserving, Processing, and Keeping
