Creating Your Backyard Farm: How to Grow Fruit and Vegetables, and Raise Chickens and Bees

by Nicki Trench

Discusses how to create a backyard farm, with details on growing fruit and vegetables, keeping bees and collecting their honey, rearing chickens for fresh eggs, and using home-grown items to create natural remedies and cleaning products.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction, Food, Animals, Reference

192 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2010

About the author

Nicki Trench is one of the leading figures in the revival and promotion of home crafts. As well as teaching, lecturing and feature writing on knitting, crochet, sewing, cake decorating and hen keeping, she is the founder of Laughing Hens, the UK's leading online yarn store, and Rooster Yarns. Her most recent books include Creating Your Garden Farm and 201 Knitting Motifs, Blocks, Projects and Ideas. Nicki also runs Dancing Hens (www.dancinghens.com), a craft studio.

Reviews

[Nathalia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful book for those that wish to start living off the Earth yet don't know where to begin. Very clear illustrations and instructions with advice you'll only find talking to seasoned gardeners. I can't wait to start growing my own vegetables!

[Kimberly Bogelund · Rating 5 out of 5]

good basic detail book clear and encouraging

[Bronwyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

All-in-all, good information, but pretty generalized for the seriously interested homesteader. This serves as more of a dalliance with the world of self-sufficiency.

[Michelle McPherson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I bought it mostly for the information on bees, I am keeping it for its abundant information on having a small farm, things that could be done in an urban setting if you wanted.