The Seven-Step Homestead: A Guide for Creating the Backyard Microfarm of Your Dreams
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.
 
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The Seven-Step Homestead: A Guide for Creating the Backyard Microfarm of Your Dreams
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.
 
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The Seven-Step Homestead: A Guide for Creating the Backyard Microfarm of Your Dreams

The Seven-Step Homestead: A Guide for Creating the Backyard Microfarm of Your Dreams

by Leah M. Webb
The Seven-Step Homestead: A Guide for Creating the Backyard Microfarm of Your Dreams

The Seven-Step Homestead: A Guide for Creating the Backyard Microfarm of Your Dreams

by Leah M. Webb

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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.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781635864113
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date: 04/04/2023
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 8.40(w) x 10.60(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Leah M. Webb, MPH, CHC, is a garden consultant who holds a Master of Public Health in Environmental Health Sciences and Bachelor of Science in Environmental Ecology. She was the children’s garden manager at the Georgia Southern Botanic Garden and spent two years studying nutrient cycling in a soil lab. Motivated by the desire to supply her family (including two children who have serious health challenges) with as much fresh, healthy food as possible, she developed the seven-stage implementation plan for her own homestead and gardens in western North Carolina. Find her online at leahmwebb.com. 

Table of Contents

Homesteading: It's about More Than Just Food

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


Appendix A: Seeding Recommendations
Appendix B: Hardiness and Spacing for Select Flowering and Edible Perennials
Appendix C: When to Sow for Fall and Winter Harvest
Acknowledgments
Suggested Reading
Metric Conversion Table
Index
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