The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre! [Kindle Edition] Author: Carleen Madigan | Language: English | ISBN:
B003PGQK4Q | Format: PDF, EPUB
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Direct download links available Download Epub The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre! [Kindle Edition] from 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link 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. Direct download links available for Download Epub The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!
- File Size: 10431 KB
- Print Length: 368 pages
- Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC (February 11, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B003PGQK4Q
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,856 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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Much of this time was spent fantasizing about one day having a 1/10th or 1/4th acre homestead. During that time, the book was eye-opening as to what is possible with that little space. Having soaked up these ideas about raised beds, chickens, dwarf fruit trees, and so on for so long, when I finally got a house recently, I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it, which alone is probably worth the price of the book.
But now that I have fruit trees to prune and chicks to raise, I'm not looking to this book for information. For building raised beds, I'm using the instructions from The Urban Homestead (Expanded & Revised Edition): Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Process Self-reliance Series), which also details composting with worms, reducing your reliance on the energy grid, and using water more intelligently -things The Backyard Homestead doesn't even mention. Or take pruning. On page 111, "Pruning a Fruit Tree in Four Steps," Step 2 says "First shorten the branch to about a foot, then undercut the branch slightly before sawing it from above. Finally, saw off the stub, leaving a slight collar to promote good healing." These are just the kind of clear-as-mud directions that would greatly benefit from an illustration; unfortunately all that is there is a drawing of a man sawing a branch with a long-handled tool of some kind, nothing to show what exactly a collar is or how much of the remaining foot qualifies as the stub or even why he selected that particular branch.
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