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The everything backyard farming book

a guide to self-sufficient living through growing, harvesting, raising, and preserving your own food

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Whether you're worried about the quality or the cost of the food you buy, you'll find that building a backyard farm can provide you with an abundance of food that is fresh, sustainable, and inexpensive. This common-sense guide give you all you need to take control of the food you eat.

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Publisher
Adams Media
Language
English
Pages
304

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Table of Contents

Backyard-farming basics
How to become a backyard farmer
Things you'll need and things you won't need
Backyard farming obstacles
Farming when you don't have a backyard
Backyard farming on a small lot
Backyard farming on a larger lot
Compost
Intensive planting
Growing vegetables
Berries and grapes
The backyard orchard
Poultry
Small livestock
Pests and pestilence
Fencing
Equipment
Hand tools
Expanding the growing season
Food storage
Truck farming: cash from your crops.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Avon, MA
Series
An Everything series book, Everything series
Other Titles
Guide to self-sufficient living through growing, harvesting, raising, and preserving your own food

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
635.09173/2
Library of Congress
S494.5.U72 S54 2013, S494.5.U72S54 2013

The Physical Object

Pagination
304 pages
Number of pages
304

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28312001M
Internet Archive
everythingbackya0000shel
ISBN 10
1440566011, 144056602X
ISBN 13
9781440566011, 9781440566028
LCCN
2013030963
OCLC/WorldCat
857356552

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