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1) 40 projects for building your backyard homestead: a hands-on, step-by-step sustainable-living guide
Author
Publisher
Creative Homeowner
Language
English
Description
Provides details on how to build more than 40 projects such as sheds, feeders, fences, and other structures in order to enhance readers' sustainable living.
Author
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xi, 324 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A gorgeous full-color celebration of North America's local food heroes and traditions. Offers profiles of farmers, artisans, chefs, and organizations that are making a difference, and shares eighty seasonal recipes that highlight the very best local foods across the country.
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
v, 522 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wherever you live - farm, suburb, or even city - The Homesteading Handbook will show you how to embrace a more self-sufficient lifestyle. Learn to plan, plant, and harvest your own organic garden. Enjoy fruits and vegetables year-round by canning, drying, and freezing. Build and install alternate energy devices such as solar panels or geothermal heat pumps. Who doesn't want to shrink their carbon footprint, save money, and eat fresh, homegrown...
Author
Publisher
Storey Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"In-depth profiles offer planting and care guidance for 100 native plant species that provide food and shelter for birds throughout the year, from winter all the way through breeding and migrating periods"--
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
215 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Imagine putting together a big breakfast using the eggs straight from your own chickens, or bacon straight from the pig. This is a sort of ideal that many dream of, but few ever get to experience. Now with The Ultimate Guide to Raising Farm Animals, that dream can be turned into a reality, and also be so much more.In The Ultimate Guide to Raising Farm Animals, you will learn how to take care of ...
Author
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Revised and expanded second edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 313 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offers healthier, more empowering choices, by showing us how to reclaim links in our food and purchasing chains, to make choices that are healthier for our families, ourselves, and our planet."--