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Weekend Homesteader #8
Weekend Homesteader: December
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 December volume includes the following * Plant a fruit tree* Cook up a pot of soup* Narrow down your list of essential tools* Stay warm without electricityThe 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.
- GenresNonfictionGardening
66 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 15, 2011
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About the author
Anna Hess
53 books110 followersAnna 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.)
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.)
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December 17, 2018
Great Refresher
Having grown up in the 60’s and 70’s, I was pretty well use to most of these concepts and I find them a wonderful refresher. I slaughter my first chickens when I was under 10 years old, help Ed my parents with gardening and mowing the lawns when there was no such thing as a powered plow, or lawnmower. We canned quite a lot and grew up with mostly beans and corn bread for dinner, or even a chicken my brother shot and I chopped. Some may think the endeavors difficult or even in humane. But if it put food on the table nightly when there was nothing else, you’d think differently. The grocery store was a luxury, most usually on a Friday night. It was not the every day running to the market nor the luxury of ordering on line. If anyone thinks they can’t you’d definitely think different if it was your only choice. I like the author brings these things back to life showing you it possible in these month by month guidelines to break you in. Enjoy! Achieve! Create a lasting bond!
Having grown up in the 60’s and 70’s, I was pretty well use to most of these concepts and I find them a wonderful refresher. I slaughter my first chickens when I was under 10 years old, help Ed my parents with gardening and mowing the lawns when there was no such thing as a powered plow, or lawnmower. We canned quite a lot and grew up with mostly beans and corn bread for dinner, or even a chicken my brother shot and I chopped. Some may think the endeavors difficult or even in humane. But if it put food on the table nightly when there was nothing else, you’d think differently. The grocery store was a luxury, most usually on a Friday night. It was not the every day running to the market nor the luxury of ordering on line. If anyone thinks they can’t you’d definitely think different if it was your only choice. I like the author brings these things back to life showing you it possible in these month by month guidelines to break you in. Enjoy! Achieve! Create a lasting bond!
December 8, 2012
Really enjoyed this book. Many times, when you are starting a new venture you can get bogged down in the myriad of details offered by people who know what they are doing. Fortunately the author has really broken down the components into bite-sized "to-do's" that people who are even still living in the city can do. I'm looking forward to reading the other months and doing all the projects as well.
December 5, 2012
It is the first issue I read, and I have to admit I really liked it. The advice in the tree planting section was well written and easy to follow, if not a bit too basic. There are of course many books where you can get more complete and detailed advice, but for this kind of book & price it is definitely adequate.
January 2, 2012
Really basic, but worth a read, especially if you are brand new to the homesteading mindset. In this issue, I especially enjoyed the homestead tool checklist project.
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