Your Backyard Farming Experience Begins Here! Give Back to Your Garden by Composting! Backyard Farming: 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...
Start your own backyard vegetable garden with this easy-to-use guide for beginner gardeners and new homesteaders! Growing Vegetables & Herbs takes you from start to finish—from garden planning to planting and nurturing, to enjoying your first home harvest. This guide shows you: • How to design the best gardening layout for your space • The ins and outs of weeding, watering, and pest control • Ways...
Raising Cattle covers a broad range of ownership and care issues from selecting the right breeds and numbers for your wants and needs, housing and land requirements, breeding and raising new calves, and keeping your animals happy and healthy, to enjoying your very own farm-fresh milk, beef, and more. --Publisher
Your expert guide to successfully keeping and caring for a herd of goats. A comprehensive primer for first-time goat owners, it includes detailed and informative photographs that help introduce goats into your backyard farm with ease. It covers a broad range of ownership and care issues: from selecting the right breed for your wants and needs, to planning your goats' housing needs, to breeding and raising new kids, to keeping your goats healthy, to...
