Description
Achieve your back-to-the-land dreams without breaking the bank
Build your homesteading dreams with all the affordable DIY innovations, tips, and stories you need to successfully launch you on a path to self-sufficiency. Raise and grow your own food, connect with nature, and consume less while producing more!
The Frugal Homesteader is a fun, inspirational, and educational guide filled with a lifetime of learning that comes along with becoming a homesteader. Following dozens of successful families who have been motivated to make do, make new, and make more while saving money and living off the land, this book covers such topics as:
- Outfitting your garden
- Equipping your barn and outbuildings
- Protecting and providing for your animals
- Harvesting rainwater
- Heating with wood
- Foraging
- Producing more of what you need to thrive in harder times.
Whether you're just starting out and looking for new, sustainable, and affordable ideas, approaches, and techniques, or you're a small-scale farmer in regenerative agriculture, The Frugal Homesteader is the DIY manual to help you succeed.
Author: John Moody, Joel Salatin
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Published: 10/02/2018
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.80h x 7.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780865718937
ISBN10: 0865718938
BISAC Categories:
- House & Home | Sustainable Living
- Technology & Engineering | Agriculture | Sustainable Agriculture
- House & Home | Do-It-Yourself | General
About the Author
John Moody is an award-winning homesteader and farmer. He is the founder of Whole Life Services and CEO of Steader, an online video-based learning platform that brings the best practitioners to guide and inspire those who find the joy in raising and growing their own food. John speaks and presents at homesteading conferences and events, and is a contributor to numerous magazines, journals, and websites. John and his wife, along with their five children live, farm, and homestead on 35 acres in Kentucky.