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

by David Toht

Overview

Provides details on how to build more than 40 projects--sheds, feeders, fences, and other  structures--to enhance readers' sustainable living.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607654407
Publisher:	Creative Homeowner Press
Publication date:	04/01/2017
Series:	Gardening
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	250
Sales rank:	235,439
File size:	39 MB
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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