The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre! |  | Creator: Carleen Madigan
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Category: Book
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Pages: 368
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Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 7 x 1.1
ISBN: 1603421386
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
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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.
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 Fresh eggs! Fresh bread! Fresh basil! March 23, 2009
S. B. Townsend (Boston)
59 out of 59 found this review helpful
What else could you want? Do you need? Well, after reading Madigan's book, apparently I want to have and do alot more with my life and garden in the city. I've already been trying to turn my 1/16th (?) of an acre city garden over to chickens, veggies, and fruit, but, yikes!, this book has been an absolute dream find for me. It has made me realize that I've barely cracked the surface as far as creating a life that is in happy harmony with the plant and animal world, not to mention how my family's eating experience will become more fun, more fresh, and more delicious! I can't wait to start making my own mozzarella and planting those nut trees! That will be the easy part...getting my husband to agree to those four gorgeous blue Andulusian chickens I've been coveting might be slightly harder.
Even if you don't have a backyard! March 10, 2009
A. Rainer (Richmond, VA)
57 out of 58 found this review helpful
This book was recently introduced to me by a friend who was tired of hearing me just *talk* about my preserving and canning aspirations - she thought, rightly, that having this book as my guide would spur action. What always sounded like a lovely annual ritual to me is now actually - I have been happy to discover, after reading "The Backyard Homestead" and its clearly, engagingly written advice - something I can and do do. But I have discovered so much more that is possible within - as it turns out, having only a balcony, and no actual backyard, is not a deterrent when looking to live more self-sufficiently, and Madigan addresses viable options for all kinds of living circumstances. There really is something for everyone within, and inspiration is inevitable.
A Great All-In-One Reference March 10, 2009
M. J. Paso (California)
26 out of 26 found this review helpful
I love "The Backyard Homestead"! It is a user-friendly guide that not only shares the "how to" aspects of food self-sufficiency, but includes lots of wonderful recipes as well. Ms. Madigan's caring and respect for the environment shines throughout each chapter of this delightful book.
Same Info As Storey's Basic Country Skills June 7, 2009
teri775 (Midwest, USA)
26 out of 28 found this review helpful
I purchased this book but returned it because I already had "Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance" and it contains almost all of the same information. For the little bit of new information contained in this book, I didn't think it was worth purchasing this book in addition. I didn't realize this book would be so similar. If you don't have or never read "Storey's Basic Country Skills...," this book will be a great find for you. It's a smaller, easier to handle book than "Storey's Basic Country Skills..," but it has much less content, for those deciding between the two. However, the information it contains is valuable for backyard homesteaders.
The Complete Manual for quitting the grocery store! April 17, 2009
Dana (Louisiana, USA)
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I borrowed this book from my local library and absolutely loved it. It so full of useful information that I knew I couldn't live without it so I bought it! I consider it a "Reference Book" that I just had to own.
With this guide, you can just give up going to the grocery store. Want vegis? You can grow them. Fruit? Ditto. Milk? Rather than brand-name or store-brand, how about Goat or Cow? Meat? Learn to raise chickens, goats, pigs, sheep, and cows. Want bread? Heck - you can even learn to grow wheat!
This book takes you from planting through storage of finished food products. An amazing resource to have in one handy book!
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