Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just 1/4 Acre! (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780606368827)

Put your backyard to work Enjoy fresher, organic, better-tasting food all the time. The solution is as close as your own backyard. Grow the vegetables and fruits your family loves; keep bees; raise chickens, goats, or even a cow. "The Backyard Homestead" shows you how it's done. And when the harvest is in, you'll learn how to cook, preserve, cure, brew, or pickle the fruits of your labor.
From a quarter of an acre, you can harvest 1,400 eggs, 50 pounds of wheat, 60 pounds of fruit, 2,000 pounds of vegetables, 280 pounds of pork, 75 pounds of nuts.

Author: Carleen Madigan
ISBN-10: 0606368825
ISBN-13: 9780606368827
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Language: English
Published: 02/11/2009
Pages: 367
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.90w x 1.10d