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Weekend Homesteader #1
Weekend Homesteader: May
Twelve months to self-sufficiency!This fully updated second edition of the popular Weekend Homesteader series includes exciting, short projects that you can use to dip your toes into the vast ocean of homesteading without getting overwhelmed. If you need to fit homesteading into a few hours each weekend and would like to have fun while doing it, these projects will be right up your alley, whether you live on a forty-acre farm, a postage-stamp lawn in suburbia, or a high rise.The May volume includes the following * Plant your summer garden* Decipher nutrition* Choose the right mulch for each plant* Make homesteading easy with teamworkThe second edition has been revised and expanded to match the paperback, with extra photos and feedback from weekend homesteaders just like you, plus permaculture-related avenues for the more advanced homesteader to explore.
36 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 23, 2011
About the author
Anna Hess
51 books105 followersAnna Hess dreamed about moving back to the land ever since her parents dragged her off their family farm at the age of eight. She worked as a field biologist and nonprofit organizer before acquiring fifty-eight acres and a husband, then quit her job to homestead full time. She admits that real farm life involves a lot more hard work than her childhood memories entailed, but the reality is much more fulfilling and she loves pigging out on sun-warmed strawberries and experimenting with no-till gardening, mushroom propagation, and chicken pasturing.
She also enjoys writing about the adventures, both on her blog at WaldenEffect.org, and in her books. Her first paperback, The Weekend Homesteader, helped thousands of homesteaders-to-be find ways to fit their dreams into the hours leftover from a full-time job. The Naturally Bug-Free garden, which suggests permaculture techniques of controlling pest invertebrates in the vegetable garden, is due out in spring 2015 from Skyhorse Publishing. In addition, a heaping handful of ebooks serve a similar purpose.
(As a side note, I use Goodreads more as a personal way of keeping track of the books I read than as a way to share the books I write. If you're here to learn about me as an author, check out my gardening-homesteading shelf and ignore all the fluff. You can also drop by www.wetknee.com for my authorial musings.)
She also enjoys writing about the adventures, both on her blog at WaldenEffect.org, and in her books. Her first paperback, The Weekend Homesteader, helped thousands of homesteaders-to-be find ways to fit their dreams into the hours leftover from a full-time job. The Naturally Bug-Free garden, which suggests permaculture techniques of controlling pest invertebrates in the vegetable garden, is due out in spring 2015 from Skyhorse Publishing. In addition, a heaping handful of ebooks serve a similar purpose.
(As a side note, I use Goodreads more as a personal way of keeping track of the books I read than as a way to share the books I write. If you're here to learn about me as an author, check out my gardening-homesteading shelf and ignore all the fluff. You can also drop by www.wetknee.com for my authorial musings.)
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October 6, 2012
My Review:
I love to garden and live off the land. Well lets just say that you can always learn new ways to do things and new or different products to use to receive the object that you are trying to get. With that being said, I love how Anna Hess has put this book together to help those of us who have lived off the land and those of you who have not.
Let's just put it out there the way that Anna has in the very first part of this book. "If you had to, could you live off the land?" As we all know things in life happens, like: earthquakes, floods, power outages, and so on. So, could you do with out power? Do you know the way to plant or raise food if it was the only way to live?
Anna Hess in Weekend gives you a lot awesome advice as well as instructions with pictures. And it is for that reason I am giving Weekend Homesteader my Breath of Life rating of: FIVE CLOCKS!!
I love to garden and live off the land. Well lets just say that you can always learn new ways to do things and new or different products to use to receive the object that you are trying to get. With that being said, I love how Anna Hess has put this book together to help those of us who have lived off the land and those of you who have not.
Let's just put it out there the way that Anna has in the very first part of this book. "If you had to, could you live off the land?" As we all know things in life happens, like: earthquakes, floods, power outages, and so on. So, could you do with out power? Do you know the way to plant or raise food if it was the only way to live?
Anna Hess in Weekend gives you a lot awesome advice as well as instructions with pictures. And it is for that reason I am giving Weekend Homesteader my Breath of Life rating of: FIVE CLOCKS!!
January 2, 2012
Good intro to planting a garden, with some awesome advice if you're a beginner. I look forward to reading future installments, one of which I'm pretty sure contains something about hugelkultur.
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June 22, 2012Not bad if you're a beginner.
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