Historically referred to as a government program for revitalizing undesirable living areas, homesteading today has come to mean the pursuit of a self-sufficient lifestyle. Homesteading can include everything from keeping bees, growing vegetables, and composting to installing solar panels, creating a rain barrel, and canning your own food, --plus much more.
Backyard Homesteading All-in-One For Dummies has a little bit of everything for the homesteader in all of us. It walks you through the basics of creating your own sustainable homestead and offers expert tips and tricks for making it as easy and successful as possible.
Raise chickens Keep bees Compost Can and preserve This book gives you everything you need to embark on your own homesteading adventure.
So much good information in this book! Gardening, raising chickens, beekeeping, recipes. So many tips and tricks to being a successful homesteader. Here’s to a fruitful vegetable garden this year!
I bought this collection as we prepare to move to a more rural area. It was a helpful introduction to all of these topics. A good starting place for true novices.