Backyard Farming: Composting: How to Plan, Build, and Maintain Your Own Compost System for a Healthy and Vibrant Garden

by Kim Pezza

Your Backyard Farming Experience Begins Here!Give Back to Your Garden by Composting!Backyard Composting is your all-in-one guide for creating your own homestead composting plan and adding rich, nourishing humus to your garden. This guide reviews every important topic from what should and should not be composted, benefits and uses for compost, how to build a compost bin, and much more.Whether you’re composting the waste from your farm or just the scraps from your kitchen, Composting is the  comprehensive primer for anyone looking to start composting and bring that “black gold” to their own garden. Including detailed instructions and informative photographs that help ensure your compost system is practical and productive, Composting takes you step by step through everything you need to nourish your garden—and build healthy, rich soil.With Composting, you • Choose the composting method that works best for you, your needs, and your available material• Discover how to begin a compost system and how to maintain it for optimal yield• Construct your own composting system from a variety of easy-to-follow plans• Learn how to troubleshoot any problem your compost pile might develop• Find out how best to use your compost—including indoor container gardening...and much more to help you achieve success.More than ever, people everywhere are making a return to a self-sufficient, sustainable lifestyle. Join the growing movement of homemakers looking to a healthier, happier way of life—and it starts right in your very own backyard.Backyard Farming is a series of easy-to-use guides to help urban, suburban, and rural dwellers turn their homes into homesteads. Whether planning to grow food for the family or for sale at the local farmers market, Backyard Farming provides simple instruction and essential information in a convenient reference.

Genres: Nonfiction, Gardening, Food

122 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 29, 2015

Reviews

[Shon Lumb · Rating 5 out of 5]

Composting for dummies. Definitely feeling inspired to start a vermicomposter this spring!
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[Red · Rating 3 out of 5]

A great straightforward resource. All the basics needed to start as a first time composter. I have limited space, so it's doubtful I would keep a hard copy of the book on hand, but an electronic copy could be kept as a reference. It is certainly worth checking out from your local library. There are several plans for building composters out of different materials, as well as a resource section at the back of the book.

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not a very well written or organized book, but hey, it's about composting so I can't ding it too much. Has some plans for bins and gives a good overview of what's involved but could go deeper in terms of chemical processes, anaerobic composting, more specifics on what is best for compost, and how to actually measure C:N.

[Christie · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book is a good beginning book for composting.

[Carolyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very informative and helpful guide!

[Hannah CF · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book contained a lot of helpful tips on starting new compost and maintaining it. I only wish it was a longer read!

[Michelle Hudson · Rating 3 out of 5]

DNF. Turns out, I already know a lot about composting

[Kayla Swanigan · Rating 4 out of 5]

easy and quick read. pretty straightforward. I like the guides and to make things in the book

[Yvonne · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this to be a good beginning for my exploration into composting. I want to try it but didn't even know where to start and I found this to be a good resource. I borrowed the e-book from my library. I don't know that is a book that I would want to own though.