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Backyard Homesteading All-in-One For Dummies

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Overview

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.

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.

Backyard Homesteading All-in-One For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Backyard homesteading comprises many disciplines, with a lot of information to remember. Use these cheat sheets as a handy reference guide for some of the important items you may find yourself coming back to often. Double-check the planting guidelines for various crops as you’re getting your garden ready for the growing season. Make sure you’re following all the steps for successful and safe canning. Keep some key considerations in mind when you’re looking at a coop for your flock of backyard chickens.