Creating Your Backyard Farm:

Name: Creating Your Backyard Farm:
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ISBN: 9781908862938

ISBN-10: 1908862939

ISBN-13: 9781908862938

Edition: 2013

Authors: Nicki Trench

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If you dream of growing, harvesting and eating your own produce, here's how to begin. Author Nicki Trench, who has created her own backyard farm from scratch, shares with you everything there is to know about growing crops, keeping bees, and rearing hens. Here's how to make compost, grow vegetables and fruit, collect honey, rear chickens for fresh eggs, and make preserves and chutneys, along with natural remedies and cleaning products for a natural life inside and outside your home. The benefits of creating your backyard farm are not just economic--the energy you once obsessively expended on the exercise bike can now be channelled more productively by digging your vegetable patch, turning…

Book details

List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Ryland Peters & Small
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Introduction



Starting Off


Planning your kitchen garden


Soil


Composting


Wormeries


Growing in raised beds


Equipment



Sowing and Growing


Growing under cover


Sowing and planting


Growing in containers


Watering


Pests and diseases



The Kitchen Garden


Root vegetables


Brassicas


Legumes


Onion family


Pumpkins and squashes


Leaves


Steam and perennial vegetables


Growing fruit


Growing herbs


Wild food


Storing produce



Keeping Animals


Hen keeping


Beekeeping


Keeping goats


Keeping pigs


Useful addresses and websites


Index


Author's acknowledgments