Weekend Homesteader: August

Weekend Homesteader #4

by Anna Hess

Twelve months to self-sufficiency!This fully updated second edition of the popular Weekend Homesteader series includes exciting, short projects that you can use to dip your toes into the vast ocean of homesteading without getting overwhelmed. If you need to fit homesteading into a few hours each weekend and would like to have fun while doing it, these projects will be right up your alley, whether you live on a forty-acre farm, a postage-stamp lawn in suburbia, or a high rise.The August volume includes the following * Saving seeds* Drying food* Building a chicken coop or tractor* Making a rain barrelThe second edition has been revised and expanded to match the paperback, with extra photos and feedback from weekend homesteaders just like you, plus permaculture-related avenues for the more advanced homesteader to explore.

Genres: Nonfiction, Gardening, Reference, Ebooks

52 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 24, 2011

About the author

Anna Hess dreamed about moving back to the land ever since her parents dragged her off their family farm at the age of eight. She worked as a field biologist and nonprofit organizer before acquiring fifty-eight acres and a husband, then quit her job to homestead full time. She admits that real farm life involves a lot more hard work than her childhood memories entailed, but the reality is much more fulfilling and she loves pigging out on sun-warmed strawberries and experimenting with no-till gardening, mushroom propagation, and chicken pasturing.

She also enjoys writing about the adventures, both on her blog at WaldenEffect.org, and in her books. Her first paperback, The Weekend Homesteader, helped thousands of homesteaders-to-be find ways to fit their dreams into the hours leftover from a full-time job. The Naturally Bug-Free garden, which suggests permaculture techniques of controlling pest invertebrates in the vegetable garden, is due out in spring 2015 from Skyhorse Publishing. In addition, a heaping handful of ebooks serve a similar purpose.

(As a side note, I use Goodreads more as a personal way of keeping track of the books I read than as a way to share the books I write. If you're here to learn about me as an author, check out my gardening-homesteading shelf and ignore all the fluff. You can also drop by www.wetknee.com for my authorial musings.)

Reviews

[Melisha · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lots of good information and feel better about getting chickens. I have been wanting to get chickens for several years.

Loved all the information on chickens and making chicken coops and tractors. Also found the information on drying seeds and drying fruit very helpful. Never knew you could use a car as a dehydrator. Will recommend this book to anyone interested in homesteading.

[Terry Casteel]

Awesome Month to month projects.

I gave this book a five star because of the great ideas on weekend projects. I love gardening in general, and if done correctly the plans are great and in the long run, save some hard earned cash.

[Ken Weinert]

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