The Backyard Homestead

The word "homestead" conjures up all kinds of images. A homestead is self sufficient and productive but also sustainable and nurturing. Its not a farm where food is produced for sale or a hobby farm which may not produce anything at all. Homesteading is a lifestyle. It means taking care of yourself and your family and building a home as a center and focus for your life. It also means taking care of your animals and your land, leaving this world a little better than you found it.
A homestead can be large or small. It can be rural or suburban or even urban. Like people, plants bloom where they are planted and nurtured. This book is a comprehensive overview of the skills needed to homestead in any location.
Choosing a property, allocating space for living, gardening and animals and raising food are all discussed. The author also includes chapters on wine, cider, milking and cheese making. Gleaning wild plants for food and making maple syrup along with bee keeping round out the list of topics. Best of all the appendix includes a list of additional resources by chapter for further study.
For the modern homestead these skills are are somewhat of a lost art and this could be the textbook for the course in homesteading revival.