Any home can be a sustainable homestead—whether you’re in the country, city, or suburbs! Everything you need to know about backyard homesteading—from planning and development to growing, preserving, and preparing your own food. Successfully turn your rural property, suburban home, or urban dwelling into a productive food oasis! Whether you have 100 acres of open land or an apartment terrace, Backyard Farming: Homesteading takes the guesswork out of backyard farming and offers a comprehensive primer for anyone looking to grow their own food. With detailed instructions and informative photographs, Kim Pezza walks you step by step through the process of planning and implementing your sustainable lifestyle. You will learn: • What to look for when considering properties for backyard farming • How to develop your property into a homestead, regardless of size and space • Which varieties of produce and livestock are easiest for beginners • The differences between living off-grid and urban and rural homesteading • How to run a homestead that’s functional—and makes money • Delicious recipes using produce from your own farm • And many more tips to help you achieve success! More than ever, people everywhere are returning to the farming lifestyle. Backyard Farming: Homesteading is your first big step to joining the growing movement of homemakers looking for a healthier, happier way of life—and it starts right in your own backyard.

Comprehensive backyard farming guide to growing herbs for its many different uses in food and medicine. Backyard Farming: Growing Herbs for Food and Medicine is your one-stop guide for growing and utilizing herbs in your life. Intended to serve as a comprehensive primer for first-time gardeners, detailed illustrations and informative photographs help to eliminate confusion and ease new homesteaders into the world of backyard farming. Growing Herbs for Food and Medicine includes not only instructions on planting, but goes into detail the many different kinds of ways to use herbs such as marinades and garnishes for your meals or as natural remedies and medicinal cures for what ails you.

Welcome to the charming town of Carolan Springs, where Anne and her quirky friends are always up to something! In this box set, you’ll join Anne on three fun adventures as she solves mysteries, causes trouble for the local sheriff, and learns important lessons about friendship, love, and community. In ‘Chicken Culprit’ (Book 1) Anne Freemont’s fresh start in Colorado is quickly disrupted by a murder in her small town. When her young neighbor Kandi is accused of the crime, Anne must put her sleuthing skills to work to clear her young friend’s name. Along the way, she heals a broken heart and finds that love and friendship is always waiting for us. In ‘Cordial Killing’ Anne and her friends are excited to open the doors of a bed-and-breakfast. But when a murder occurs, they find themselves caught up in a deadly game of cat and mouse. With a blizzard bearing down on them, Anne must race against time before the killer strikes again. In ‘Honey Homicide’ Anne must put her sleuthing skills to work when a series of man-made fires has Carolan Springs on edge. With the sheriff under suspicion and danger lurking, Anne must risk everything to uncover the truth. But this time, will her efforts go up in flames? If you love clean, light-hearted mysteries with relatable characters, unexpected twists, and just a touch of romance, this box set of cozy mysteries is perfect for you. So, grab your copy now and get ready to join Anne and her friends on three exciting sleuthing adventures you won’t forget.

Get dirty with purpose and grow! "There has never been a better time to transform our spaces into food gardens than today." To achieve the idyllic life of backyard farms and homegrown food, months of dirt, drudgery, and grit is needed. Here’s a handy companion that will give any future food grower just the right push to unleash the farmer within. This book teaches you how to start your own backyard farm in the tropics, following biodynamic, permaculture and organic agriculture principles.

It doesn't take a farm to have the heart of a farmer. Now, due to a burgeoning sustainable-living movement, you don't have to own acreage to fulfill your dream of raising your own food. Hobby Farms Urban Farming, from Hobby Farm Press and the same people who bring you Hobby Farms and Hobby Farm Home magazine, will walk every city and suburban dweller down the path of self sustainability. Urban Farming will introduce readers to the concepts of gardening and farming from a high-rise apartment, participating in a community garden, vertical farming, and converting terraces and other small city spaces into fruitful, vegetableful real estate. This comprehensive volume will answer every up and coming urban farmer's questions about how, what, where and why;a new green book for the dedicated citizen seeking to reduce his carbon footprint and grocery bill.

Comprehensive, go-to reference for the burgeoning sustainable-living movement. Answers to every urban farmer’s questions about how, what, where, and why. Makes the argument that urban farming is not just a hot media topic and trendy lifestyle choice, but is actually critical for human survival. Updated new edition examines how urban farming is being implemented in the United States today. Offers guidance on gardening from a high-rise apartment, participating in a community garden, vertical farming, converting small city spaces, and more. Winner of the Independent Book Publishers Association’s Ben Franklin Award in Home & Garden.

From the author of the "Little Farm" homesteading memoirs comes a friendly, down-to-earth little guide for starting and maintaining a thriving food garden. In Little Farm in the Garden, Susan Colleen Browne shares the evolution of her own homestead garden with warmth and humor. Whether you’re starting with a pot, a small plot, or dedicated garden beds, she covers how to start growing your own food with basic nut-and-bolts like selecting crops, raising food without chemicals, and creating healthy soil. If you've read Susan's Little Farm memoirs, this booklet can be a handy addition to the homesteading experiences she's shared in her books. But Little Farm in the Garden also works as a stand-alone manual for simple ways to approach creating your own food supply, focusing on easy-to-grow vegetables, herbs, and fruit, and building a balanced garden for the long-term. In these uncertain times, producing your own food supply can give you confidence in the future—and as all gardening fans know, a sense of pleasure and accomplishment. Wherever you are in your gardening journey, Little Farm in the Garden offers a lively, heartfelt approach for gardeners, nature-lovers, and dreamers of all ages! And if you like fiction with a gardening theme, you might look at Susan's novel, The Galway Girls—the story has some intriguing tie-ins with her real-life experiences in Book 2 of the Little Farm series, Little Farm Homegrown... Susan's upcoming release is her latest Irish novel, The Fairy Cottage of Ballydara!

21st Century Homestead: Urban Agriculture contains everything you need to stay up to date on urban agriculture

Your Backyard Farming Experience Begins Here! Garlic is one of the most valuable and versatile additions you can make to your garden. Backyard Farming: Growing Garlic is your expert guide to successfully tending and harvesting garlic. Delicious when fresh and effortless to cure and preserve, garlic is a great choice for homesteads and gardens. Growing Garlic is a comprehensive primer for anyone looking to add garlic to their harvest and includes detailed instructions and informative photographs that help ensure that your garlic crop is a success. Growing Garlic covers a broad range of important topics, including selecting the right variety of garlic for your wants and needs, storage and preservation methods, recognizing common pests and diseases, and incorporating garlic into your diet, among many others. With Growing Garlic, you will: • Learn when and how to plant to get the most out of your garlic crop • Utilize garlic as the perfect companion plant to improve the health of your entire garden • Learn the various methods of planting garlic, allowing you to work within your schedule and workload • Learn to harvest your garlic and prepare it for sale or personal use • Discover a variety of delicious homestead recipes ...and many more tips and tricks from experienced farmers to help you achieve success with your garlic harvest. Growing Garlic is your first big step to joining the growing movement of homemakers and homesteaders looking to make a return to a healthier, happier way of life—and it starts right in your own backyard. Backyard Farming is a series of easy-to-use guides to help urban, suburban, and rural dwellers turn their homes into homesteads. Whether planning to grow food for the family or for sale at the local farmers market, Backyard Farming provides simple instruction and essential information in a convenient reference.

The backyard homesteader’s beginner-friendly guide to raising chickens—from planning and hatching to caring for your birds and enjoying their farm-fresh eggs! Discover how to care for your flock! As a comprehensive primer for first-time chicken farmers, Raising Chickens includes detailed illustrations and informative photographs to ease new homesteaders into the world of backyard chicken farming. Raising Chickens takes you from start to finish. Inside, you will: • Find the ideal breed of bird for your needs • Construct a coop to minimize your workload and maximize your enjoyment • Gather eggs for food, profit, or to hatch your own birds to grow your flock • Use the freshest eggs possible in a variety of delicious recipes • Tips and tricks from experienced farmers on avoiding common mistakes Raising Chickens is your first big step to joining the growing movement of homemakers and homesteaders looking to make a return to a healthier, happier way of life—and it starts right in your own backyard.