The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!
Description
Transform a small backyard into a productive source of fresh, wholesome food with this practical guide to homesteading on as little as a quarter acre. It explains how to plan and cultivate gardens and orchards, raise animals and bees, harvest responsibly, and produce staples such as eggs, milk, meat, fruit, vegetables, nuts, and grains. Readers will also find accessible guidance on preserving and preparing their harvest through drying, baking, cheesemaking, pickling, brewing, and other traditional techniques. Encouraging and hands-on, the book makes food self-sufficiency approachable for beginners while inspiring gardeners and homeowners to put every part of their property to work.
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paperback
Storey Pub.
Published Jan 1, 2009
369 pages
ISBN: 9781603421386
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First Published
2009
Language
eng
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