The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!

The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!

by Carleen Madigan

368 pages· 2009· ISBN 9781603421386
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This comprehensive guide to homesteading provides all the information you need to grow and preserve a sustainable harvest of grains and vegetables; raise animals for meat, eggs, and dairy; and keep honey bees for your sweeter days. With easy-to-follow instructions on canning, drying, and pickling, you’ll enjoy your backyard bounty all winter long.

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    The book’s subtitle promises to help readers "Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!" After reading, do you find this claim realistic and achievable, or more of an aspirational ideal? What aspects of the book's advice made you feel one way or the other?

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    Carleen Madigan covers a vast array of homesteading skills, from cultivating grains to keeping bees to preserving harvests. Which specific area or project in the book most captured your imagination, and which felt the most intimidating or impractical for your own circumstances?

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    Beyond the practical how-to instructions, what underlying philosophy or set of values about food, labor, or sustainability do you believe Carleen Madigan is subtly promoting throughout "The Backyard Homestead"?

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