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The seven-step homestead : a guide for creating the backyard microfarm of your dreams

2023

Format:	Book
Author:	Webb, Leah M., 1983- author.
Title:	The seven-step homestead : a guide for creating the backyard microfarm of your dreams / Leah M. Webb.
Publisher, Date:	North Adams, MA : Storey Publishing, [2023]
Description:	231 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Summary:	"Homesteader Leah M. Webb shares her strategy for implementing a homestead plan in seven stages by starting small and gradually adding more features each year. 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 grow more of their own food"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:	Organic gardening. Self-reliant living. Kitchen gardens.
Genre:	Handbooks and manuals.
Notes:	Includes index. Booklist, 021523, p. 11
Contents:	Step 1. -- Starting off small: one or two beds -- Step 2. -- Four hundred square feet -- Step 3. -- Fruit trees and shrubs -- Step 4. -- Edible and flowering perennials -- Step 5. -- Four-season growing -- Step 6. -- Larger-scale storage crops -- Step 7. -- Farm-fresh eggs.
LCCN:	2022049891
ISBN:	9781635864113 * 9781635864120
Other Number:	1351211342
System Availability:	2
# Local items:	1
Call Number:	635.048 Webb, L Seven-st
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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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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.

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 M. Webb shares her strategy for implementing a homestead plan in seven stages by starting small and gradually adding 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 grow more of their own food.

Table of Contents

	Homesteading: It's about More Than Just Food	10
Step 1	Starting Off Small: One or Two Beds	15
Step 2	Four Hundred Square Feet	51
Step 3	Fruit Trees and Shrubs	81
Step 4	Edible and Flowering Perennials	109
Step 5	Four-Season Growing	137
Step 6	Larger-Scale Storage Crops	165
Step 7	Farm-Fresh Eggs	193
Appendix A	Seeding Recommendations	222
Appendix B	Hardiness and Spacing for Select Flowering and Edible Perennials	224
Appendix C	When to Sow for Fall and Winter Harvest	225
	Acknowledgments	226
	Suggested Reading	226
	Metric Conversion Table	227
	Index	227

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