Home Farm

by Paul Heiney

This is a practical self-sufficiency handbook - learn to grow food, raise animals and nurture your land. There is a part in every one of us that wants to be a part that yearns to get back to the earth and to revel in the healthy experiences of growing, rearing and making. Find out how to turn the dream into reality following this practical guide. You'll find the basic information you need to be self-sufficient; from subjects like home farming and livestock care, to gardening for food and preparing meals from the things you have raised by hand. It doesn't matter how much room you have, you'll find practical ideas for any space - even a window box in the city. This is a new edition of an old favourite - the perfect guide to the 'Good Life' for today's back-to-the-earth enthusiast.

Genres: Gardening

192 pages, Hardcover

First published April 16, 1998

Reviews

[Zeng Daria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super helpful. Love the colored illustrations inside.

[Peter Gavin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book does a very good job at cover broad and varied list of topics, a great starting of book for anyone getting in to homesteading in any capacity.

[Gratefulgirl · Rating 5 out of 5]

HOME FARM

From Hobby Farms Magazine

The best-looking book on our bookshelf is definitely Home Farm: A Practical Guide to the Good Life by Paul Heiney. This hardback book, published by Dorling Kindersley, is brimming with colorful photographs and drawings tempting you to the farming life. A truly great advertisement for the simple life, Home Farm could draw even the most hardened city dweller to the country-at least for a visit. Home Farm addresses small house garden farms with mostly produce and a few animals, as well as larger home farms (over 10 acres) with wheat fields, grapevines, orchards and a range of livestock. The book is exhaustive with detailed information on livestock, gardens, field crops and food preparation. Split into five easy-to-use sections, each chapter addresses an element of the home farm. Under Animal Husbandry, Heiny provides several-page spreads on keeping each common type of livestock, including rabbits, goats, sheep and poultry. The chapters brim with information on everything from breeding and birthing, to feeding and sheltering.

Heiney is also careful to show where the home farm fits into the larger farming industry and the environment surrounding it. An especially interesting chapter, Farming and Wildlife, provides methods to ensure your farm co-exists happily with surrounding nature.


As Heiney relates in his forward, “[Home farming] brings you closer to that deep satisfaction that can come only from living and working on the land.”

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