Backyard Homesteading, Second Revised Edition: A Back-to-Basics Guide for Self-Sufficiency [Paperback]

This award-winning book addresses the needs of people who want to take control of the food they eat and the products they useeven if they live in an urban or suburban house on a typical-size lot. It shows homeowners how to turn their yard into a sustainable and self-sufficient homestead for raising livestock and providing homegrown food including fruits, vegetables, honey, eggs, milk, and meat. Backyard Homesteading also provides practical instructions for preserving food, making beer and wine, making soap, and more. Well illustrated with new photographs and illustrations, this revised 2nd edition provides important new information on attracting pollinators, and an expanded section on raising chickens.

This award-winning book shows how to turn any backyardno matter how small it may beinto a sustainable and self-sufficient homestead for raising livestock and providing homegrown food including fruits, vegetables, honey, eggs, milk, and meat.

??? Shows homeowners how to turn their backyard into a productive, wholesome, and self-sustainable homestead.
??? Instructions for growing fruit and vegetables, raising common animals, keeping bees, preserving food, making beer and wine, and more.
??? Covers the laws and regulations of raising livestock in populated areas.
??? Revised with new information on off-season gardening, plus new photographs and illustrations.
??? Gold Award Winner, Home & Garden  Independent Publisher Book Awards.

• Shows homeowners how to turn their backyard into a productive, wholesome, and self-sustainable "homestead."
• Instructions for growing fruit and vegetables, raising common animals, keeping bees, preserving food, making beer and wine, and more.
• Covers the laws and regulations of raising livestock in populated areas.
• Revislƒ6