The Backyard Homestead

· Storey Publishing
4.1
28 reviews
Ebook
367
Pages

About this ebook

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.

Ratings and reviews

4.1
28 reviews
A Google user
August 6, 2010
If you already own Storey's Guide to Country Skills don't bother with Backyard homestead. While it is a good book and useful if you are just getting into or thinking about starting your own homestead, it is simply a collection of articles previous collected in the aforementioned book. If you are looking for more of a "catch-all" book, get Country Skills, but if you want a gardening book, get Backyard Homestead.
A Google user
October 28, 2012
I live on a farm, and this book covers a lot of material without overwhelming you with too much data. Good for backyarders and farmers alike.
A Google user
September 29, 2009
This book has some excellent material about raising hogs.

About the author

Before becoming an editor at Storey Publishing, Carleen Madigan was managing editor of Horticulture magazine and lived on an organic farm outside Boston, Massachusetts, where she learned the homesteading skills contained in The Backyard Homestead. She enjoys gardening, hiking, foraging, baking, spinning wool, and knitting.

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