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The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre! |  | Creator: Carleen Madigan
Brand: Storey Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
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Rating:  63 reviews
Media: Paperback
Pages: 368
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7 x 1
ISBN: 1603421386
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9781603421386
ASIN: 1603421386
Publication Date: February 11, 2009
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Product Description
The Backyard Homestead 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. Reviews "Bottom line is, even if you're not ready for complete self-sufficiency, in today's economic climate, it just makes sense to try to produce some of your own food. And this book is a great way to get your feet wet." - Epicurious.com "The tone is sweet and accessible, and the
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 For a self suficient life, please GET THIS BOOK! July 18, 2010
Citlali T. Contreras Moreno (Mexico)
I've always lived in contact with farming and agriculture. And ever since I was a little girl, I wanted to plant and harvest my own veggies, and raise my own chickens. Now that I'm married, I wanted to have a greater involvement with that lifestyle I dreamed of as a kid.
Enter The Backyard Homestead (or as my hubbie calls it, THE BOOK). I now have a clear and precise image of the house I want to build (we are saving now) and how I want to distribute my "crops" and animals! even now, living in a VERY small house without any sort of soil to plant in, we have our small crops going on and even a handful of hens and roosters!
The book is divided very nicely, and it takes you step by step, starting with the easiest part (growing your own vegetables) all the way up to caring for your livestock! you can take baby steps or jump right in, The Book will be there providing answers, and since it is not an Encyclopedia but a single volume, in some instances it will direct you to another source where you can explore in depth in any given subject you are interested.
I really want to try my hand at making wine and beer from local produce (since I have yet to have my dream home), and I find the advice regarding fruits and veggies quite helpful! right now my plants are just potted, and I still have a wide array of veggies and herbs (and a small guava-strawberry tree already being subjected to the treatments explained in The Book!)
Whether you have half an acre, a tenth of an acre or just a balcony, you will find plenty of valuable information. you can make your own mozzarella from fresh milk even if you don't have a cow, or learn how to can your veggies even if they are store bought at the peak of the season and not grown in your home.
I would give it ten stars!
Backyard homestead June 3, 2010
David Wittkamp (JACKSON, OHIO, US)
I ordered the book because I wanted more in-depth info on gardening,and anything we could do to help make our life easier and more prodctive.My husbandhas ended up reading alot of the book himself.It has told us alot of tips about tomatoes and chickens we didn't know,along with many other very excellent advice.We highly reccommed this book to anyone wanting to sustain better lifestyle by doing it themselves on their own little peice of paradise.
Useful June 2, 2010
Jami Barrett (Nelsonville, Ohio)
I started a garden and I used this book to help me get started. Just some tomato plants and peppers but it really made me want to have more! If only I had land I could work with...
 Out-dated and innacurate May 19, 2010
J. Matthews (Kansas City)
42 out of 45 found this review helpful
Like most of the people who buy this book, I'm interested in urban farming and the DIY ethos. So I found this book really exciting for the breadth of topics it covered. How to select a breed of beef cow? Goat? Chicken? Cool! But as I read through some of the sections covering topics I know about I was surprised how out-dated and incomplete they were, which makes me suspicious that the rest of this book is equally poorly researched.
I've been a homebrewer for 5 years, and I grow wine grapes at home. The home-brew beer recipies in this book are from 1989, and are based around buying pre-made beer kits from Coopers or Muntons. Some of the ingredients listed are archane: "Laaglander malt extract" good luck finding it, Laaglander went out of business nearly a decade ago, or "Russian Malt beverage concentrate" whatever that is, you don't need it to make good homebrew.
The wine grapes section is terribly out of date as well. The American hybrid grapes she recommends were the best varieties availible 20 years go (DeChanuc, Baco, Foch) leaving out newer varieties that are much better (Traminette, Marquette, Corot Noir). She refers to Baco, Foch, and Chardonel as European varieties which they aren't. (there's a great book on growing a back-yard vineyard if you search for that phrase)
It may seem like I'm nit-picking, but it leaves me to wonder what careless mistakes are in the sections I don't know anything about? How out-of date are the other varietal recommendations? I get the impression that she culled all of this info from old books and has little experience of her own.
I'm returning my copy.
full of information May 13, 2010
W. J. Daggett (sunny, ca)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
loaded with info!... so many topics in this book. great info on all.. really a hands on read
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