Backyard Homesteading All-in-One For Dummies [Paperback]

Live a more sustainable lifestyle?

Historically referred to as a government program for revitalizing undesirable living areas, homesteading today has come to mean the pursuit of a self-sufficient lifestyle. Homesteading can include everything from keeping bees, growing vegetables, and composting to installing solar panels, creating a rain barrel, and canning your own food,plus much more.

Backyard Homesteading All-in-One For Dummies has a little bit of everything for the homesteader in all of us. It walks you through the basics of creating your own sustainable homestead and offers expert tips and tricks for making it as easy and successful as possible.?

• Raise chickens
• Keep bees
• Compost
• Can and preserve

This book gives you everything you need to embark on your own homesteading adventure.

Introduction 1

About This Book 1

Foolish Assumptions 2

Icons Used in This Book 2

Beyond the Book 3

Where to Go from Here 3

Book 1: Creating a Garden 5

Chapter 1: Planning Your Garden 7

Determining Location and Size 8

Deciding On a Layout 15

Thinking Outside the Garden Bed 19

Keeping Critters Out 26

Assembling Tools 33

Chapter 2: Deciding What to Grow 41

Understanding Veggie Varieties 41

Deciding How Much to Grow 43

Succeeding with Vegetables 45

Planting Other Small-Scale Crops 58