Trailersteading
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Trailersteading
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Author : Anna Hess
language : en
Publisher: Wetknee Books
Release Date : 2016-03-07
Trailersteading written by Anna Hess and has been published by Wetknee Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-07 with Architecture categories.
All the advantages of a tiny house at a fraction of the cost! Imagine what you could do with your time if you didn't have to spend $16,000 a year on rent or a mortgage. Old single-wide mobile homes can often be found for free (and installed for a couple of thousand dollars) in rural areas, so trailersteading is akin to dumpster-diving. A trailer allows you to live without debt, to keep your ecological footprint to a minimum with energy bills at or below the national average, and even to blend right in alongside traditional-house dwellers after a few years. Trailersteading profiles thirteen mobile-home dwellers who have used trailers as a stepping stone toward achieving their dreams. Some have spent the cash saved to expedite renovations involving extra insulation, pitched roofs, classy interiors, and even basements, while the found money has allowed others to go off the grid. Many also took advantage of a low-cost housing option to pursue their passions, becoming full-time homemakers or homesteaders. In addition to the case studies, this book presents easy methods of minimizing the negative sides of trailer life while accentuating the positive. For example, did you know a single-wide is easy to retrofit for passive solar heating? That a simple plant-covered trellis can break up the blockiness of the trailer's external appearance? Learn which parts of installing and upgrading your trailer are easy for a DIYer and which parts should be left to the experts, along with how to cheaply heat and cool a mobile home.
Soil Amendments For The Organic Garden
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Author : Anna Hess
language : en
Publisher: Wetknee Books
Release Date : 2022-10-05
Soil Amendments For The Organic Garden written by Anna Hess and has been published by Wetknee Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-05 with Gardening categories.
Feed your garden and your garden will feed you. This final installment in The Ultimate Guide to Soil series walks new and experienced gardeners through using dozens of amendments for fertilizing, mulching, and conditioning the organic garden. Hess starts with traditional materials like compost and cover crops, branches out into permaculture goodies such as biochar and hugelkultur, and comes full-circle with both urban and rural waste products including cardboard and humanure. Based on a decade growing all of her family's vegetables using organic techniques, the author steers readers away from potential hazards like weedy straw and heavy-metal-imbued inks. Then she suggests both quick fixes and slow-but-sure options for integrating found and purchased amendments into troubled ground to create a garden paradise. Don't miss this conclusion to a series that has been described as "Easy, useful, and homestead tested." You'll recoup the cost of this book with your first nutrient-dense bunch of homegrown asparagus and the increased flavors in your existing garden will be icing on the cake.
Starting A Homestead
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Author : Jill b.
language : en
Publisher: Jill b.
Release Date : 2018-02-20
Starting A Homestead written by Jill b. and has been published by Jill b. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-20 with House & Home categories.
Got the homesteading-bug? Are you considering moving to a new location to take your homesteading to the next level? From climate to soil conditions, the options can be daunting. However, this book offers a guide on how to narrow your search by following an initial list of things to consider before you take the leap.
Weekend Homesteader Winter
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Author : Anna Hess
language : en
Publisher: Wetknee Books
Release Date : 2022-07-14
Weekend Homesteader Winter written by Anna Hess and has been published by Wetknee Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-14 with House & Home categories.
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 want 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 winter volume includes the following projects: * Rotate your garden vegetables * Roast a chicken * Store drinking water * Diversify your income * Plant a fruit tree * Cook up a pot of soup * Narrow down your list of essential tools * Stay warm without electricity * Test your garden soil * Bake bread * Awaken your media consciousness * Turn trash into treasures The 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. Dive right in and start your homesteading journey today!
Weekend Homesteader April
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Author : Anna Hess
language : en
Publisher: Wetknee Books
Release Date : 2012-11-01
Weekend Homesteader April written by Anna Hess and has been published by Wetknee Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with House & Home categories.
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 April volume includes the following projects: * Find room to homestead * Survey your site * Plan your summer garden * Start a no-till garden with a kill mulch The 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.
The Big Book Of Preserving The Harvest
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Author : Carol W. Costenbader
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-05-25
The Big Book Of Preserving The Harvest written by Carol W. Costenbader and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-25 with Cooking categories.
Learn how to preserve a summer day — in batches — from this classic primer on drying, freezing, canning, and pickling techniques. Did you know that a cluttered garage works just as well as a root cellar for cool-drying? That even the experts use store-bought frozen juice concentrate from time to time? With more than 150 easy-to-follow recipes for jams, sauces, vinegars, chutneys, and more, you’ll enjoy a pantry stocked with the tastes of summer year-round.
Making Home
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Author : Sharon Astyk
language : en
Publisher: New Society Publisher
Release Date : 2012-06-01
Making Home written by Sharon Astyk and has been published by New Society Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with House & Home categories.
“Shows us why the actions that prepare us for emergencies and energy descent are the right things to do no matter what the future brings.” —Toby Hemenway, author of Gaia’s Garden Other books tell us how to live the good life—but you might have to win the lottery to do it. Making Home is about improving life with the real people around us and the resources we already have. While encouraging us to be more resilient in the face of hard times, author Sharon Astyk also points out the beauty, grace, and elegance that result, because getting the most out of everything we use is a way of transforming our lives into something much more fulfilling. Written from the perspective of a family who has already made this transition, Making Home shows readers how to turn the challenge of living with less into settling for more—more happiness, more security, and more peace of mind. Learn simple but effective strategies to: · Save money on everything from heating and cooling to refrigeration, laundry, water, sanitation, cooking, and cleaning · Create a stronger, more resilient family · Preserve more for future generations We must make fundamental changes to our way of life in the face of ongoing economic crisis and energy depletion. Making Home takes the fear out of this prospect, and invites us to embrace a simpler, more abundant reality. “Americans are born to be transient—Sharon Astyk has the prescription for dealing with that genetic disease, and building a healthy nativeness into our lives.” —Bill McKibben, New York Times–bestselling author “Exhaustively researched and compassionately delivered.” —Harriet Fasenfest, author of A Householder’s Guide to the Universe
The Not So Big House
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Author : Sarah Susanka
language : en
Publisher: Taunton Press
Release Date : 2001
The Not So Big House written by Sarah Susanka and has been published by Taunton Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Architecture, Domestic categories.
Provides a review of social trends and their effect on architecture and design.
The Call Of The Farm An Unexpected Year Of Getting Dirty Home Cooking And Finding Myself
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Author : Rochelle Bilow
language : en
Publisher: The Experiment, LLC
Release Date : 2014-09-23
The Call Of The Farm An Unexpected Year Of Getting Dirty Home Cooking And Finding Myself written by Rochelle Bilow and has been published by The Experiment, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Honest, self-aware, and wonderfully tender, The Call of the Farm is for anyone who has daydreamed about a simpler life—or fallen too deeply in love. Rochelle Bilow, a classically trained cook and aspiring food writer, was nursing a broken heart and frustrated with her yet-to-take-off career when she set out to write a short profile of a small, sustainable CSA farm in central New York. At most, she expected to come away with a cute city-girl-in-the-country piece. But after just one day of moving hay bales, feeding pigs, and tapping maple sap, she was hooked: The air was fresh, her muscles felt useful, and the smells from the kitchen where the farmhands gathered at day’s end were intoxicating. Add in a sweet but enigmatic young farmer whose soulful gaze meets her own, and The Call of the Farm is set in motion. This enticing memoir charts the unexpected year that unfolds as Rochelle immerses herself in life at the farm. She cooks her way through four seasons of fresh-from-the-earth produce (with such tantalizing results as Blistered Tomato Gratin and Crisped Potato Casserole with Shaved Chives), grapples more than once with the finer points of rendering lard, and begins to feel she has finally found her niche—all while falling hard for that handsome, blue-eyed farmer.
Homegrown Humus
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Author : Anna Hess
language : en
Publisher: Wetknee Books
Release Date : 2022-08-09
Homegrown Humus written by Anna Hess and has been published by Wetknee Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-09 with Gardening categories.
Homegrown humus is easy with cover crops! Cover crops are a simple, cheap way to boost your soil's organic matter, to fight weeds, to prevent erosion, to attract pollinators, and to keep the ecosystem in balance. Unfortunately, most information on growing cover crops is written for people who plow their soil every year and are willing to spray herbicides. You can get all of the same benefits in a no-till garden, though, if you're clever. Homegrown Humus details five no-till winners in depth --- buckwheat, sweet potatoes, oilseed radishes, rye, and oats. Profiles of other species suggest gardening conditions when you might want to try out sunflowers, annual ryegrass, barley, Austrian winter peas, crimson clover, cowpeas, or sunn hemp as well. Next, you'll learn pro tips on finding cover-crop seeds, planting cover crops in a no-till garden, and easily killing cover crops without tilling or herbicide use. Understanding the C:N ratio of cover crops helps determine how long to wait between killing cover crops and planting vegetables, as well as how to maximize the amount of humus you're adding to your soil. Cover crops are an advanced gardening technique bound to increase your vegetable yields, but with this book they become simple enough for beginners. Give your garden a treat --- grow some buckwheat! The second edition of Homegrown Humus is fully updated, with three new chapters and a total of 54 photos.