The Seven-Step Homestead

Name: The Seven-Step Homestead
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781635864113
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A Guide for Creating the Backyard Microfarm of Your Dreams

By Leah M. Webb

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The Seven-Step Homestead by Leah M. Webb offers a practical guide for gardeners aiming to create a versatile and sustainable homestead. The book outlines a clear, seven-stage plan to gradually build a diverse garden that includes vegetables, fruit, medicinal herbs, pollinator-friendly flowers, and chickens for eggs. Starting with simple raised beds, readers are guided through expanding their homestead each year to incorporate fruit trees, berry bushes, a chicken coop, and methods for storing crops through winter.
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This book is ideal for aspiring homesteaders and home gardeners seeking a manageable, step-by-step approach to developing a multifunctional garden. Beginners looking to start small and expand gradually will find Leah M. Webb's personal insights especially helpful.

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.

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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 hugelkultur 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781635864113

Publisher: Workman Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 May 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Storey Publishing LLC

Illustration: Full-color; photographs and illustrations througho

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 214.0mm

Height: 274.0mm

Weight: 760g

Pages: 232

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Home & Garden Leah M. Webb Non-Fiction

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.