Weekend Homesteader
Weekend
Homesteader
is full of 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 40 acre farm, a postage stamp lawn in suburbia,
or a high rise.
You'll learn about backyard chicken care, how to
choose easy mushroom and berry species, and why and how to plant a
no-till garden that heals the soil while providing nutritious food.
Permaculture techniques will turn your homestead into a vibrant
ecosystem and attract native pollinators while converting our
society's waste into high quality compost and mulch.
Meanwhile,
enjoy the fruits of your labor right away as you learn the basics of
cooking and eating seasonally, then preserve homegrown produce for
later by drying, canning, freezing, or simply filling your kitchen
cabinets with storage vegetables.
As you become more
self-sufficient, you'll save seeds, prepare for power outages, and
tear yourself away from a full-time job, while building a supportive
and like-minded community.
You won't be completely deleting your
reliance on the grocery store, but will be plucking low-hanging (and
delicious!) fruits out of your own garden by the time all 48 projects
are complete.
The complete book will
be in bookstores near you in fall 2012. Meanwhile, you can enjoy
the first edition of most of the projects by downloading 99 cent ebooks
from Amazon's kindle store.
If you want to stay up
to date on the progress of Weekend Homesteader, just click on the RSS
button below, or email anna@kitenet.net and ask to be added to my
very low traffic email list. Thanks for reading!
In November, I signed on with
Skyhorse Publishing so that Weekend Homesteader could become a full
color paperback, available in bookstores throughout the U.S. and Canada
in fall 2012. This week, I finally turned in the manuscript.
Now that Weekend Homesteader has stretched her wings and is ready to
fly on her own, I figured she was old enough to have a designated news
feed. Click on the RSS button here if you want to be sure to hear
about the print book's progress. Or drop
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list to stay up to date on book news.
While you're waiting,
don't forget to complete your set of Weekend Homesteader, first
edition. Each month is just 99 cents in Amazon's kindle store!
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