The Beginner's Guide to Backyard Homesteading: Step-by-Step Instructions for Raising Crops and Animals

by Lisa Lombardo

Farm to table takes on new meaning with this comprehensive beginner’s guide to creating a backyard homestead.

Learn how to convert your yard into a sustainable and self-reliant space that reduces waste and puts food on your plate. Filled with practical advice and straightforward lessons, you’ll soon see how feasible it is to keep poultry or can fruit you’ve grown. Whether you have a tiny plot or a large estate, The Beginner’s Guide to Backyard Homesteading demonstrates that anyone can start living off their land.

This homesteading book offers up indispensable tips and tricks,

Project action plans—Kick-starting your homesteading journey is a breeze with action plans that help you break down necessary materials, project costs, monthly goals, and more.Seasonal timelines—Knowing what to plant and when is crucial to your success. These precise timelines reveal the ideal schedules for everything from starting seedlings to harvesting honey.Exhaustive instructions—Learn how to build the infrastructure you need with easy-to-follow directions. You’ll find yourself constructing raised beds and planting fruit trees in no time.

Jump into a more sustainable, affordable, and fulfilling lifestyle with The Beginner’s Guide to Backyard Homesteading.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

303 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 18, 2020

Reviews

[(a)lyss(a) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received a copy of this book through the Amazon Vine program in exchange for an honest review.

This is a thorough book on homesteading.

With information on gardening, raising large livestock, and small animals there's information on how to plan and maintain your land. There's a helpful checklist on how to calculate costs, what to consider, and how to plan. There's a lot of information on cost calculation and savings and while it's helpful to have a range costs vary so much depending on where you are in the country it may not be helpful.

There's a lot of general information, but not a lot of specific stuff. This book reminds people to check their planting zones, but doesn't have a map that shows planting zones. It seems like a good starting point that conveys how much work a homestead is.

[Cary Morton · Rating 5 out of 5]

I received a copy of this book directly from the author/publisher in exchange for an honest review.

The Beginner's Guide To Backyard Homesteading by Lisa Lombardo is an invaluable book to have in your library if you are new to homesteading and want to know how to start. The pages are filled with useful information on an array of topics, from setting up a garden for your growing zone to livestock space requirements. It covers all the bases and gives you a good foundation of information to get started with.

The book was easy to read and follow, and organized to make finding certain topics easy to do. There are useful checklists to help with planning and visual examples for setting up. I'm thoroughly pleased with what I found inside this book, and I'd easily suggest it to anyone looking to getting into backyard homesteading, whatever the scale may be.

[Cherie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lot of dollars and cents in this to understanding how you can logistically backyard homestead. Some great info, but I personally found a lot of it overwhelming, esp in directions I wasn't going to go in.

[Victoria · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gave alot of information on homesteading: including recipes, some cost breakdowns of items, raising animals how to, planting (what to plant, when to plant, how to plant for max food.)

[Shelby Rollenhagen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super informative; a great starting point.

[Pfairbanks · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read it in a day because my internship sucks. It's a decent introduction for beginners but not super in depth on any particular topic.