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The seven-step homestead : a guide for creating the backyard microfarm of your dreams / Leah M. Webb.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: North Adams, MA : Storey Publishing, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 231 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781635864113
  • 1635864119
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Contents:
Homestead: It's about more than just food -- Starting off small: one or two beds -- Four hundred square feet -- Fruit trees and shrubs -- Edible and flowering perennials -- Four-season growing -- Larger-scale storage crops -- Farm-fresh eggs -- Appendix A: Seeding recommendations -- Appendix B: Hardiness and spacing for select flowering and edible perennials - Appendix C: When to sow for fall and winter harvest.
Summary: "Homesteader Leah M. Webb shares her strategy for implementing a homestead plan in seven stages by starting small and gradually adding more features each year. Step-by-step photos from the author's own homestead, accompanied by her hard-earned advice and instruction, make this a one-of-a-kind guide for anyone who aspires to grow more of their own food"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Shelving location Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 635.0484 W366 Checked out 05/09/2024 33111011049547
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction New 635.0484 W366 Checked out 05/09/2024 33111011260920
Adult Book Adult Book Northport Library NonFiction 635.0484 W366 Available 33111009468550
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Perfect for any aspiring backyard gardeners, this book offers a doable, incremental program for turning any yard into a primary food source with vegetables, fruits, chickens, pollinator plants, and medicinal herbs.



Today's gardeners want a bit of everything--vegetables, fruit, medicinal herbs, flowers for pollinators, and even chickens for eggs. The dream is to build a diverse landscape that serves multiple functions, but achieving that goal can be intimidating and overwhelming. Homesteader Leah M. Webb shares her strategy for implementing a homestead plan in seven stages by starting small and gradually adding more features each year.



The Seven-Step Homestead takes readers through the process with a series of doable steps, beginning with establishing one or two raised beds of the easiest vegetables to grow, and gradually building up to the addition of fruit trees and berry bushes on hugelkulture mounds, a coop full of chickens, and a winter's worth of storage crops. Step-by-step photos from the author's own homestead, accompanied by her hard-earned advice and instruction, make this a one-of-a-kind guide for anyone who aspires to grow more of their own food.

Includes suggested reading (page 226) and index.

Homestead: It's about more than just food -- Starting off small: one or two beds -- Four hundred square feet -- Fruit trees and shrubs -- Edible and flowering perennials -- Four-season growing -- Larger-scale storage crops -- Farm-fresh eggs -- Appendix A: Seeding recommendations -- Appendix B: Hardiness and spacing for select flowering and edible perennials - Appendix C: When to sow for fall and winter harvest.

"Homesteader Leah M. Webb shares her strategy for implementing a homestead plan in seven stages by starting small and gradually adding more features each year. Step-by-step photos from the author's own homestead, accompanied by her hard-earned advice and instruction, make this a one-of-a-kind guide for anyone who aspires to grow more of their own food"-- Provided by publisher.

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