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The Seven-Step Homestead

A Guide for Creating the Backyard Microfarm of Your Dreams

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Pub Date Apr 04 2023 | Archive Date Apr 04 2023
Storey Publishing | Storey Publishing, LLC

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Description

Perfect for any aspiring backyard gardeners, this book offers a doable, incremental program for turning any yard into a primary food source with vegetables, fruits, chickens, pollinator plants, and medicinal herbs.

Today’s gardeners want a bit of everything—vegetables, fruit, medicinal herbs, flowers for pollinators, and even chickens for eggs. The dream is to build a diverse landscape that serves multiple functions, but achieving that goal can be intimidating and overwhelming. Homesteader Leah M. Webb shares her strategy for implementing a homestead plan in seven stages by starting small and gradually adding more features each year.
 
The Seven-Step Homestead takes readers through the process with a series of doable steps, beginning with establishing one or two raised beds of the easiest vegetables to grow, and gradually building up to the addition of fruit trees and berry bushes on hugelkulture mounds, a coop full of chickens, and a winter’s worth of storage crops. Step-by-step photos from the author’s own homestead, accompanied by her hard-earned advice and instruction, make this a one-of-a-kind guide for anyone who aspires to grow more of their own food.
 
Perfect for any aspiring backyard gardeners, this book offers a doable, incremental program for turning any yard into a primary food source with vegetables, fruits, chickens, pollinator plants, and...

Advance Praise

“An encouraging and detailed step-by-step, multi-year guide to building your own productive, beautiful garden. Webb has crafted an indispensable resource to help you flourish right alongside your burgeoning homestead, creating a highly productive, diverse, and beautiful home garden across the years.”

– Meg McAndrews Cowden, author of Plant Grow Harvest Repeat

"Aspiring gardeners, take note! Whether your focus is food sovereignty or food safety, The Seven-Step Homestead maps out four years of skillful gardening mentorship in intimate detail, walking the novice step-by-step through turning the most unpromising backyard into a fruitful and beautiful foodscape. With her broad experience, clarity of expression, and attention to detail, gardener-author Leah M. Webb will be the wise sister or generous neighbor of your greenest gardening dreams. This book will be an indispensable garden companion for years to come."

– Shawn and Beth Dougherty, authors of The Independent Farmstead

"A wonderful resource for beginners, Leah teaches you how to grow your own food in a smart and approachable way that won't leave you feeling overwhelmed."

– Crystal Schmidt, author of Freeze Fresh and creator of Whole-Fed Homestead


“An encouraging and detailed step-by-step, multi-year guide to building your own productive, beautiful garden. Webb has crafted an indispensable resource to help you flourish right alongside your...


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ISBN 9781635864113
PRICE $24.99 (USD)
PAGES 240

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