40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead
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40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead
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Easy How-To’s Transform Your Home into a Sustainable Homestead
Ah, the backyard – a space all your own to equip to your liking and nobody’s gonna tell you otherwise. Maybe you’re hankering to illuminate the night with solar lights, raise a bumper crop of vegetables, or savor fresh eggs from your own flock of contented chooks. No matter how ambitious your wishes, you’ll find all the construction know-how you’ll need in David Toht’s 40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead. Its 256 pages are packed with practical, budget-friendly instructions for building raised beds and arbors, fences and pens, chicken coops, hives and sheds. Step-by-step instructions, exploded views and materials lists let you DIY with confidence, even if you’re only moderately handy.
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- Dozens of DIYs to transform your backyard into your very own sustainable escape
- Detailed plans for 40 simple projects suitable for the moderately handy builder
- Practical projects include:
- Garden structures like raised beds, arbors and self-watering beds
- Fences, pens and gates, including picket and solar electric fences
- Hen pens, runs and a movable A-frame tractor
- Sheds for livestock, work and storage
- Solar- and wind-powered compressor and windmill
- Aquaponics and hydroponics basics
- Three types of beehives
- Plumbing and wiring basics, including freeze-proof watering options, outdoor wiring and supplement lighting
- Features detailed schematics, color photos, materials lists and step-by-step instructions
- Paperback; 256 pages
- 8½"W x 11"H
- Imported