The Modern Homestead Garden

This was great! As a new homesteader, this was a great read. It is laid out well. The sections made sense, the charts were easy to figure out. The photo quality is excellent.

I find it easy to flip back through and find what I am looking for after the first read through too, since it's so well organized. Which makes it a good quality reference book long term.

I will definitely be recommending this book!

I started watching The Rusted Garden several years ago and was so excited when I learned that he was writing a book. I enjoy starting my day watching a video, but at heart, I am a book person, and to have so much of his gardening advice in my hands, to me, is worth a whole pile of compost, a/k/a black gold.
If you want to live more self-sufficiently and grow as much of your own food as possible, this is a great place to begin. The book is divided into ten chapters that cover everything from building your first garden, to seed starting, choosing the right variety of plants or seeds, disease, and pest control, and preserving or cooking with your harvest. The information is presented in a straight forward manner, and there are lovely pictures that accompany each chapter.
Whether you have room to grow a large garden or just enough room for some pots, you will find something to help you get started or improve your garden. I enjoyed my time reading this ebook, and I am looking forward to buying a physical copy when it publishes. A terrific resource shared by a great teacher.

This is a great introduction to growing your own fruit and veg for a novice gardener. With just the right amount of expertise and common sense, accompanied by some stunning photographs, this is books takes the mystery out of home grown food and makes the reader want to get stuck in right away. The term “homestead” suggests its for an American audience but the advice is just as relevant for readers elsewhere.

This is now one of my favorite vegetable and fruit gardening books. It is comprehensive but doesn’t dwell on textbook style minutiae, which makes it an excellent how to reference for both new and experienced gardeners. The author covers growing techniques for a variety of vegetables and fruits that are suitable for home growers, with helpful information on cool and warm season crops, optimum soil temperatures, days to harvest, etc. Topics addressed include seed starting, organic fertilizers and disease control methods, composting and growing in containers. All of the text is accompanied by gorgeous full color photos that make me itch to get out in the garden. I especially like the author’s laid back approach and recommendation not to be too dogmatic in following his directions, but rather to let experience guide your practice. I highly recommend this book.

This was a good beginner guide to growing an edible garden. There's a lot of information but it is set out in a good way, it gets to the point and is easy to follow.

This is exactly what I wanted... a look at sustainable gardening and some of the methods that might help a beginner. It has a step by step and covers all the basics....pests, containers, seeding, cold weather crops, and warm weather crops.

What did I like? This is a great book for starting a homestead garden. This is my first year gardening and this covers a start of doing it yourself. With the recent pandemic more people are moving from the cities and it’s clear that survival may include growing your own food. I was tickled to be offered this book to peruse since I’m one of those people that want to eat my own crops.

Would I recommend or buy? It’s really a beginners basic but still has a ton of tips and tricks. I would definitely buy a copy, and recommend to people looking to grow their own food. You don’t have to have a huge yard but it’d be difficult for people in apartments to get a ton out of this book. I really enjoyed it.

I received a complimentary copy to read and voluntarily left a review! Five stars! Huge enjoyment for me!

The Modern Homestead Garden: Growing Self-sufficiency in Any Size Backyard by Gary Pilarchik
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group – Cool Springs Press
Genre: Home & Garden
Release Date: March 23, 2021

The Modern Homestead Garden: Growing Self-sufficiency in Any Size Backyard by Gary Pilarchik is a beginners guide to starting a homestead garden and increasing self-sufficiency.

I found this book to be filled with so much great information and it was written in a easy to understand way. The pictures were beautiful and really added to the book.

I would definitely recommend this book to someone who is looking to start their own garden.
I'm so grateful to Joanne Fluke, Kensington Books, and NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of this ARC ebook in exchange for my honest review.

The Modern Homestead Garden by Gary Pilarchik is a very informational book for those who want to grow a good homestead and have the land to do it. It has some good, although sometimes somewhat basic information for gardening. The book is laid out very well and the pictures were wonderful.

An informative and well laid out book good for gardeners working with any size plot. Covers the basics. The "profiles" are useful for growing specific plants.

Since I'm currently obsessed with creating a garden in the backyard of my new home this spring and have been reading all the garden books I can, I was excited to read The Modern Homestead Garden. This book has all of the basic information that you would expect from a book about gardening. I appreciated that it included a section on fruit trees and shrubs because that isn't something that I've seen a lot in the other gardening books that I have been reading. If you already are familiar with gardening, then this book probably won't have much new for you. However, this book would be perfect for beginners.