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The Seven-Step Homestead

A Guide for Creating the Backyard Microfarm of Your Dreams

by Leah M. Webb
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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.
When faced with financial uncertainty or a potential disruption to the food supply, more people turn to vegetable gardening — for the joy, satisfaction, and sense of security that comes from growing food. 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 Webb shares her strategy for implementing a homestead plan in seven stages, starting small and gradually add 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 free themselves from reliance on the commercial food system but doesn't know where to start or how to make it happen in a realistic way.
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    April 4, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9781635864120

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      • File size: 59544 KB

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    • English

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    • Booklist

      Starred review from February 15, 2023
      This compassionate, forward-thinking, wholly practical guide works for anyone even entertaining the idea of a backyard garden, whatever their square footage or skill level. The author's opening advice--start small!--is carried through in these seven incremental steps, the first step being to simply plant one or two small beds (four by eight feet), which will allow the gardener time to discern the contours of the yard, available light, soil quality, and labor required to work the space. The second step expands the growing space to a more bountiful 400 square feet. The remaining five steps--fruit trees and shrubs, edible and flowering perennials, four-season growing, larger-scale storage crops (winter squash, potatoes, etc.), and chickens--are interchangeable, depending on the gardener's inclinations and space limitations. Webb everywhere enriches this practical approach with wonderfully granular specifics, aided by spot-on illustrations: how to sheet mulch (huge when developing soil), design a layout, select annuals and perennials, create proper spacing for trees and shrubs, build a trellis, prune, build cold frames and greenhouses, and plan and build a coop, among many other instructions. A superb guide for virtually all seasons, landscapes, and gardeners.

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    • Library Journal

      June 10, 2024

      Self-sufficiency has become a trend. Growing one's own food or a portion of it is one way to generate fresh fruit and vegetables and to avoid mowing the grass. Garden consultant Webb encourages readers to add what suits their lifestyle by offering sound advice, tips, tricks, and online resources on how to achieve it. The book demonstrates that getting started is easy. There are easy-to-follow instructions on how to create 4-by-8 garden beds, which readers can expand and utilize to incorporate flowers, fruit trees, and bushes. This is a garden book for readers who want a few crops or need to know how to strengthen the soil in their yards or grow edible flowers for a variety of dishes. VERDICT Written by a backyard homesteader who committed to providing fresh food for her children who experienced health challenges, this is a recommended and comprehensive guide on how to produce one's own food.--Chris Gifford

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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