Twelve months to self-sufficiency!This fully updated second edition of the popular Weekend Homesteader series includes exciting, short projects that you can use to dip your toes into the vast ocean of homesteading without getting overwhelmed.  If you need to fit homesteading into a few hours each weekend and would like to have fun while doing it, these projects will be right up your alley, whether you live on a forty-acre farm, a postage-stamp lawn in suburbia, or a high rise.The Fall volume includes the following projects:* Save your own seeds* Preserve garden produce by drying* Build a chicken coop or tractor* Make a rain barrel* Eat seasonally* Can tomatoes* Bring your chickens home* Experience voluntary simplicity* Extend the fall gardening season with quick hoops* Store vegetables on the shelf* Scavenge biomass for the garden* Become an apprenticeThe second edition has been revised and expanded to match the paperback, with extra photos and feedback from weekend homesteaders just like you, plus permaculture-related avenues for the more advanced homesteader to explore.

Twelve months to self-sufficiency!This fully updated second edition of the popular Weekend Homesteader series includes exciting, short projects that you can use to dip your toes into the vast ocean of homesteading without getting overwhelmed.  If you need to fit homesteading into a few hours each weekend and would like to have fun while doing it, these projects will be right up your alley, whether you live on a forty-acre farm, a postage-stamp lawn in suburbia, or a high rise.The Fall volume includes the following projects:* Save your own seeds* Preserve garden produce by drying* Build a chicken coop or tractor* Make a rain barrel* Eat seasonally* Can tomatoes* Bring your chickens home* Experience voluntary simplicity* Extend the fall gardening season with quick hoops* Store vegetables on the shelf* Scavenge biomass for the garden* Become an apprenticeThe second edition has been revised and expanded to match the paperback, with extra photos and feedback from weekend homesteaders just like you, plus permaculture-related avenues for the more advanced homesteader to explore.

Twelve months to self-sufficiency!This fully updated second edition of the popular Weekend Homesteader series includes exciting, short projects that you can use to dip your toes into the vast ocean of homesteading without getting overwhelmed.  If you need to fit homesteading into a few hours each weekend and would like to have fun while doing it, these projects will be right up your alley, whether you live on a forty-acre farm, a postage-stamp lawn in suburbia, or a high rise.The Fall volume includes the following projects:* Save your own seeds* Preserve garden produce by drying* Build a chicken coop or tractor* Make a rain barrel* Eat seasonally* Can tomatoes* Bring your chickens home* Experience voluntary simplicity* Extend the fall gardening season with quick hoops* Store vegetables on the shelf* Scavenge biomass for the garden* Become an apprenticeThe second edition has been revised and expanded to match the paperback, with extra photos and feedback from weekend homesteaders just like you, plus permaculture-related avenues for the more advanced homesteader to explore.