the backyard homestead (brochure)
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With just a quarter acre of land, you can feed a family of four with fresh, organic food year-round. This comprehensive guide to self-sufficiency gives you all the information you need to grow and preserve a variety of vegetables, fruits, herbs, nuts, and grains; raise chickens for eggs and meat; raise cows, sheep, and goats for meat or milk; raise pigs and rabbits; and keep honey bees. Simple instructions make it easy to enjoy canned, frozen, dried, and pickled produce all winter; use your own grains to make bread, pasta, and beer; turn fresh milk into delicious homemade yogurt, butter, and cheese; make your own wine, cordials, and herbal teas; and much, much more. It truly is possible to eat entirely from your backyard. This is a marketing brochure for The Backyard Homestead. Read more about the book on our blog: http://insidestorey.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Backyard%20HomesteadOr watch a Backyard Homestead video on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWCE8LoEVLMTRANSCRIPT
Achieve Food Self-Sufficiency Right at HomeThe indispensible one-stop guide to enjoying fresher, better-tasting food
Illustration © Michael Austin
The Backyard Homestead is a com-pendium of the best advice from the country’s foremost publisher of books that promote personal independence in harmony with the environment. Who else could publish a single volume that con-tains all the information needed to produce meal after meal right from the backyard? This food doesn’t contain pesticides or chemicals and doesn’t need excessive packaging or processing. Without the addition of preservatives, fruits and vegetables come to the table exactly as nature intended.
Never before has so much food wisdom been collected in one volume. The Backyard Homestead will be the go-to reference for readers looking to live a more self-sufficient life, one they can celebrate with locally produced food and drink.
Achieve Food Self-Sufficiency Right at HomeThe indispensible one-stop guide to enjoying fresher, better-tasting food
Storey’s 25-year-old mission is making news today.
The Backyard Homestead will help readers:
• Grow vegetables and fruit with timeless advice on where to plant, how to harvest, and how to preserve the crop• Make cheese from local dairy products• Make homemade apple cider or kitchen-fresh blackberry jam• Raise chickens for eggs and meat• Keep bees and enjoy their honey straight from the comb• Cure meats to enjoy all winter long
The Backyard HomesteadEdited by Carleen Madigan PerkinsTwo-color; illustrations throughout368 pages; 7 x 9
Paper: $18.95 US / $24.95 CAN
ISBN: 978-1-60342-138-6; No. 62138
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Eat Organic, All-Natural – All the Time
Before becoming an
editor at Storey, Carleen
Madigan Perkins was
managing editor of
Horticulture magazine
and lived on an organic
farm outside Boston,
Massachusetts, where she learned many of
the homesteading skills contained in The Back-
yard Homestead. She enjoys gardening, hiking,
foraging, baking, spinning wool, and knitting.
Carleen lives in western Massachusetts.
About the Editor:
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