40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead: A Hands-on, Step-by-Step Sustainable-Living Guide

by David Toht

Overview

Learn all about how to build 40 backyard homestead projects including sheds, feeders, fences, and other backyard structures to enhance your sustainable living! Each project is designed with simplicity, convenience, and budget in mind. You will also find help on how to expand or contract the projects to suit your needs. Each project includes step-by-step instructions, tools and materials lists, exploded views, and easy-to-understand techniques. Even if you are a novice craftsman, you'll discover how to build your own feeders, fences, and structures. In the process, you'll save money and have the satisfaction of doing it yourself! Author David Toht is well-known in the homesteading community with a background in home repair, remodeling, and gardening.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781580117104
Publisher:	Fox Chapel Publishing
Publication date:	08/06/2013
Series:	Gardening
Edition description:	First
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	87,040
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	9 Years

About the Author

Dave Toht, a former contractor with decades of hands-on experience, fondly remembers his first house located in the sometimes frigid, sometimes frying Midwest.  Built in 1854, it was loaded with opportunities for caulking, glazing, weatherstripping and insulating.  He has written or edited more than 60 books on home repair and remodeling.

Table of Contents

Garden structures

- raised beds

- arbors

- bottom-watered boxes and variations

- vertical gardening

- rooftop gardening

- tool maintenance, organizing

Fences and pens

- gates

- wire fences

- wooden fences (wind break, privacy)

- electric fences

- deer-proof fences

- pens for chickens

Basic coop building

-step-by-step small coop

-step-by-step big coop

-roosting

-nesting boxes

-step-by-step chicken tractor

Step-by-step shed building

- foundation

- framing

- cladding

- roofing

- step-by-step large shed

- step-by-step goat shed

- goat manger

- setting up a homesteading shop

Wind power

- options

- water pumping

- electrical generation

Solar power

- inatalling solar panels

Aquaponics

- pond and tank options

- fish

- feed

- filtering

- irrigation

Hydroponics

- do-it-yourself systems

- off-the-shelf options

Building beehives

- Langstroth

- top bar

- Warre

Farmyard plumbing

- soldering basics

- workjing with PVC pipe

- quick plumbing repairs

- underground pipes

- freeze protection for spigots

- drip and other irrigation

Farmyard wiring

- underground lines

- GFCI protection

- lighting