Title:
The backyard homesteader : how to save water, keep bees, eat from your garden, and live a more sustainable life
Author:
Publication Date:
2021
Publication Information:
Layton, UT : Gibbs Smith, 2021.
©2021.
Physical Description:
256 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781423656784
Abstract:
Absolutely all you need to know to provide you and your family with homegrown food throughout the year. Offers easy to follow advice on planning, establishing, and maintaining a small-acre farm, an allotment, or a backyard garden. Includes step-by-step instructions, photographs, and illustrations, this book is a practical and comprehensive guide to living off the land.
General Note:
Previously published as Country skills: a practical guide to self-sufficiency.
Includes index.
Contents:
Starting out -- Calendar of season tasks -- Growing vegetables -- Growing fruit -- Directory of pests and diseases -- Keeping animals -- Food from nature -- Preserving your produce -- Water and energy conservation.
Language:
English
