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I know many
readers are interested in setting up and running a small homestead
on small acreage and The
Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter
acre, can help to get you started in the right direction.
It doesn’t
take a lot of land to have a self-sufficient homestead. I have five
and a half acres, but use about half of that for my, garden, fruit
and nut trees, henhouse, grape vines, goat lot, rabbit hutch, bee
hive, compost pile, home and yard. You don’t need a lot of
land.
But you do
need to know how to use your small acreage efficiently, The Backyard
Homestead will help you do that.
Within it’s
368 pages you’ll find easy to understand, straight forward
instructions covering a wealth of information, that’ll help
you get the most from a small homestead or even your backyard.
The thing that
stood out most was the detailed planning diagrams and breakdowns
for different sized plots, arrangements and lists of possible yields
from each. Of course the actual yield harvested, would depend on
many factors. But the suggestions give something to work for and
compare your progress against.
The Backyard
Homestead covers a range of topics, all geared toward those
of us homesteading on small acreage, such as: vegetable gardening,
fruit and nut trees, herbs, grains, poultry, rabbits, pigs, goats,
sheep, cattle, preserving, making wine, cider, vinegar, herbs, making
cheese, yogurt and butter and a lot more.
On the back
of the book, it tells you that on a 1/4 acre, you can harvest:
- 1400 eggs
- 50 lbs of
wheat - 60 lbs of
fruit - 2000 lbs
of vegetables - 280 lbs
of pork - 75 lbs of
nuts
The Backyard
Homestead is a great book for anyone interested in self-reliance
on a small acreage. Copies of The
Backyard Homestead, The
Encyclopedia of Country Living, and Barnyard
in Your Backyard will cover just about everything that you
will ever need to know when setting up and running a small homestead.
My only complaint
(I have to complain about something – no matter how trivial)
is that some of the suppliers mentioned are no longer in business.
This can be expected as businesses come and go and any such listing
is guaranteed to become dated. This isn’t a big deal as other
sources and alternatives are easy to find.
I also thought
it strange that there were no plans for composting or homemade composters.
This isn’t a big deal as this info is all over the web and
detailed in just about any book on gardening or homesteading.
Would I recommend
this book? Yes; I would. It is a gold mine of information for those
of us homesteading on small acreage.
What about
you? What books would you recommend for those homesteading on a
small plot of land?
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July
2, 2013
M.D.
Creekmore [send
him mail] is a full-time blogger and preparedness consultant.
He currently lives completely off-grid somewhere in the Appalachian
mountains and is the author of 31
Days to Survival and The
Dirt Cheap Survival Retreat both published by Paladin Press.
To connect with M.D. Creekmore please visit his Survival
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