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Backyard Composting: Your Complete Guide to Recycling Yard Clippings
Over 500,000 copies of this useful book have been sold in the first nine printings. This new second edition contains new graphics, the latest information on composting and household refuse, and descriptions of the most current tools available to help readers get started with their own composting program.
Backyard Market Gardening
Discover how easy and profitable it is to grow ans sell vegetables, fruits, flowers, herbs and small livestock from your own backyard market garden. Learn how others grow and sell: o 14,000 pounds of food, on less than one-eighth acre - Ohio o $150,000 from one-half acre, to fancy restaurants - California o $40,000 from one acre of oriental raised beds - Oregon o $36,000 from 3/4 acre, to city farmers' markets - Massachusetts Learn how you can: . Earn top dollar, with minimum effort and maximum profits. . Grow high-value crops in small spaces, efficiently and quickly. . Improve your garden soil for super yields and superb flavor. . Create markets that are profitable, reliable, fun and sustainable. . Improve your garden soil for super yields and superb flavor. . Buy or build tools that speed your work and increase profits. . Enjoy a guaranteed salary from community supported agriculture or a membership garden. Find your market niche in: membership gardening, community supported agriculture, farmers' markets, card table in your front yard, farm stands, clientele membership clubs, producers cooperatives, restaurants, caterers, institutions, pick your own and even growing specialty crops for your neighbor's salsa recipe. "BACKYARD MARKET GARDENING is the book that shows you how to do what you can with what you have where you are." - George DeVault, Organic Gardening Magazine. "Market gardening as described by Andy Lee is very rewarding to the soul, the soil, the environment, and the flow of capital."- Jim Hightower, Austin, Texas
Barnyard in Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens, Ducks, Geese, Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, and Cattle
When is the right time to shear a sheep? Is there a market for manure? What time of day is best to collect eggs? What is the correct way to milk a goat? What does a duck eat? Can a cow and a sheep share the same pasture? Which types of rabbits are easiest to raise? The perfect book for anyone who has ever dreamed of having that little place in the country, Barnyard in Your Backyard offers tried-and-true, expert advice on raising healthy, happy, productive farm animals: chickens, geese, ducks, rabbits, goats, sheep, and dairy cows. Each chapter focuses on a different animal, discussing the pros and cons of raising the animal, housing and land requirements, feeding guidelines, health concerns, and a schedule for routine care. Species that are easy to raise, hardy, and companionable are profiled. First-time farmers will discover simple, clear instructions for caring for animals throughout the year, as well as guidelines for processing barnyard products such as milk, wool, and eggs. Combining practical advice from real experts, easy-to-use checklists and charts, a seasonal care calendar, and detailed black-and-white illustrations, Barnyard in Your Backyard offers a comprehensive review of the ins and outs - the tribulations and triumphs - of living with and caring for a small barnyard.
Boomer & George Deluxe Chicken Coop
The Boomer & George Deluxe Chicken Coop is so versatile and spacious, you'll wish your own home was just like it. This two-tiered chicken coop is crafted of durable Fir and has two doors for easy access to your chickens. The top portion gives your chickens a little privacy for laying eggs, a large enclosed living/exercise space gives them a place to ruffle their feathers, and one section of the roof comes off to make cleaning the interior a whole lot easier. A ramp leads from the top level to the caged lower level where your chickens will have space to stretch their talons. Indoors and out, they're gonna love their new pad. This coop will comfortably house four to five chickens.About Boomer & GeorgeWith a pair of pets in the boardroom, Boomer & George is a brand of fun, function, fur, and feathers. Our products feature original and thoughtful designs and features that normally cost a leg and a tail. We believe pet products should be designed to improve the lives and living quarters of animals and owners equally, and that everyone deserves to be happy and healthy. If ever we start to stray from this mission, we're reminded by our board members with a booming bark!
Fairfield Garden Hose Bin - by Mayne - 5858-B
The Fairfield Garden Hose Bin by Mayne is a perfect place to store garden hoses up to 100 feet in length. Constructed from polyethylene; this durable garden hose holder comes in a neutral finish to blend well with any outdoor surroundings. A pre-molded hole is located on the back side of the bin to secure the hose to your spigot. It also comes with a removable lid to keep your wound up garden hose concealed and your home's exterior looking tidy!
Fairfield Garden Hose Bin - by Mayne - 5858-C
The Fairfield Garden Hose Bin by Mayne is a perfect place to store garden hoses up to 100 feet in length. Constructed from polyethylene; this durable garden hose holder comes in a neutral finish to blend well with any outdoor surroundings. A pre-molded hole is located on the back side of the bin to secure the hose to your spigot. It also comes with a removable lid to keep your wound up garden hose concealed and your home's exterior looking tidy!
Get Your Goat: How to Keep Happy, Healthy Goats in Your Backyard, Wherever You Live
It's all about back to basics: consumers are rejecting "consumption "and looking for more and more ways to reconnect with the earth, the community, and their food sources. Many people who have tried keeping chickens, toyed with turkeys, or even just fantasized about converting their quarter-acre suburban yard into a pasture has no doubt wondered: What about goats? I don't live on a farm--how do these lively, intelligent creatures fit into my life? "Get Your Goat," " "is a comprehensive, engaging way to answer all your questions about keeping goats, as backyard farm animal or even as a pet. "Get Your Goat "is a complete handbook for keeping all breeds of goats on smaller acreage. It includes essential information on the nuts and bolts of goat behavior; an extensive breed guide that teaches you how to make the best choice of breed for your lifestyle; fencing and housing; health and wellness; whether to raise goats for product (milk, meat, fiber) or for companionship; and more . . . written for the new goat keeper, with all the right questions in mind
Homesteading: A Backyard Guide To: Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal
Who doesn't want to shrink their carbon footprint, save money, and eat homegrown food whenever possible? Even readers who are very much on the grid will embrace this large, fully-illustrated guide on the basics of living the good, clean life. It's written with country lovers in mind-even those who currently live in the city. Whether you live in the city, the suburbs, or even the wilderness, there is plenty you can do to improve your life from a green perspective. Got sunlight? Start container gardening. With a few plants, fresh tomatoes, which then become canned tomato sauce, are a real option. Reduce electricity use by eating dinner by candlelight (using homemade candles, of course). Learn to use rainwater to augment water supplies. Make your own soap and hand lotion. Consider keeping chickens for the eggs. From what to eat to supporting sustainable restaurants to avoiding dry cleaning, this book offers information on anything a homesteader needs-and more.
Raised Flower Bed - by Merry Products - MPG-RBP01FSC
The Raised Flower Bed is perfect for organizing and adding a touch of decor to your garden! This wood flower bed has a sturdy construction; giving it great durability; even in the most inclimate conditions. With this raised planter; you can designate a specially prepared area for growing flowers The raised flower bed helps reduce the spread of weeds Made from FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified fir wood with oil-based stain The FSC certification ensures the responsible production and consumption of forest products Hardware and assembly instructions are included
The Backyard Goat: An Introductory Guide to Keeping and Enjoying Pet Goats, from Feeding and Housing to Making Your Own Cheese
This is the complete beginner's guide to raising goats at home. Whether you want to raise goats for their milk and fiber or keep them as pets or companion animals, this book covers all the essentials. You'll learn how to choose the right goats for your needs and space, house and feed them, keep them healthy, and train them to do simple tricks, pull and drive carts, and serve as pack goats. You'll also learn how to milk, shear, breed, raise newborn kids, and more. "The Backyard Goat" makes it easy to enjoy the benefits of owning a goat or two, with no experience necessary.
The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!
Put your backyard to work Enjoy fresher, organic, better-tasting food all the time. The solution is as close as your own backyard. Grow the vegetables and fruits your family loves; keep bees; raise chickens, goats, or even a cow. "The Backyard Homestead" shows you how it's done. And when the harvest is in, you'll learn how to cook, preserve, cure, brew, or pickle the fruits of your labor. From a quarter of an acre, you can harvest 1,400 eggs, 50 pounds of wheat, 60 pounds of fruit, 2,000 pounds of vegetables, 280 pounds of pork, 75 pounds of nuts. Praise for "The Backyard Homestead: "Bottom line is, even if you're not ready for complete self-sufficiency, in today's economic climate, it just makes sense to try to produce some of your own food. And this book is a great way to get your feet wet." - "Epicurious.com"
The Backyard Idea Book: Easy Organic Techniques and Solutions for a Landscape You'll Love
To help organic gardening novices face the daunting task of landscaping an entire backyard, professional arborist and city landscaper Kris Medic offers practical, simple advice on designing and maintaining a yard with minimal fuss. Medic, who has worked at such prestigious gardens as Callaway Gardens, Longwood Gardens and the Morris Arboretum, suggests time-saving alternatives to typical high-maintenance green lawns, including wildflower meadows or wildlife areas and the addition of decks and patios, which also increase living space. With 175 color photographs, 80 illustrations, 15 garden designs, and recommendations for all regions of the country, this book will inspire homeowners to envision their own dream landscape. Hundreds of expert tips and strategies, including "When to Call a Pro" boxes and a run-down of more than 60 easy-care landscape plants, provide them with the know-how to turn those dreams into reality.
The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping Chickens: Everything You Need to Know... and Didn't Know You Needed to Know about Backyar
Are you looking for a great way to reconnect with the earth, the community, and your food sources? Keeping backyard chickens is a fun, simple way to start making this happen, even with limited space in your backyard. Let the Chicken Whisperer (poultry personality Andy Schneider) teach you everything he knows...and everything you "need" to know...about raising a backyard flock Ditch the super-technical manuals and enjoy Andy's unique, common-sense perspective is a perfect fit for your busy lifestyle. Inside you'll learn: --The Benefits of a Backyard Chicken Flock --So You're Eggspecting: The Art of Incubation -- The Art of Brooding --Home Sweet Home: Coops & Runs --Nutrition, Health, and Wellness ...and much more
The Sustainable Vegetable Garden: A Backyard Guide to Healthy Soil and Higher Yields
From the author of our best-selling and widely beloved HOW TO GROW MORE VEGETABLES comes this "quick and dirty" introduction to biointensive gardening that shows it is not only possible but easy to grow astonishing crops of healthful organic vegetables and fruits, while conserving resources and actually helping the soil. A revolutionary approach to feeding ourselves and nurturing the land, this book includes:‚A Step-by-step illustrations and instructions that make these techniques simple for even the novice gardener.‚A Everything you need to know about planning crops, composting, harvesting, and more.‚A Complete resources for seeds, tools, and other garden supplies.Feed a family of four on the bounty of your backyard, or just get more out of your garden with less effort with this wonderful resource.
Treats For Chickens Chicken Crack
Treats For Chickens Chicken Crack will drive your flock wild with joy at the combination of organic grains, seeds, dried mealworms, and dried river shrimp. But unlike the crack humans intake, this chicken treat is extra healthy and great for the whole flock. Chicks and pullets scurry for the smaller bits while the older, wiser and mature feathered fowl go for it all.
Treats For Chickens Cluck'n Sea Kelp
Chickens need vitamins, minerals, amino acids and carbohydrates, and they'll get plenty of all those in the Treats For Chickens Cluck'n Sea Kelp. This treat is organic and solar-dried, and provides those essential vitamins to improve the overall health of chickens. Kelp granules can be fed to baby chicks right after hatch and throughout the lifetime of the flock. Not only can your chickens benefit from Treats for Chickens Cluck'n Sea Kelp but gardens, house plants, and compost piles/bins thrive with the addition.
Treats For Chickens Mealworm Delight
Ideal for molting hens, the Treats For Chickens Mealworm Delight increases protein and re-growth of feathers. It's made of 100% dried mealworms, which to chickens is quite tasty and all wormy. This chicken treat is also very high in protein (53%) and good fats (28%). Chickens of all ages go gaga for these formerly wiggly creatures.
Treats For Chickens Pumpkin Seed Snacks
There something for both big and small chickens in the Treats For Chickens Pumpkin Seed Snacks. Packed with organic pumpkin seeds, buckwheat groats, quinoa, cracked corn, flax, and sunflower seeds, alfalfa leaf, coconut, and marigold petals, this chicken treat has smaller grains for chicks and pullets, while your more mature feathered friends go for it all. It's a healthy alternative to scratch, and a great mixture for the whole flock.
