Synopses & Reviews
A companion volume to
Backyard Homesteading, 40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead provides details on how to build more than 40 projects to enhance readers' sustainable living. Even if they are only moderately handy, theyll discover the tools and techniques for building their own feeders, fences, and structures. In the process, theyll save money and have the satisfaction of doing it themselves.
Synopsis
Provides details on how to build more than 40 projects--sheds, feeders, fences, and other structures--to enhance readers' sustainable living.
About the Author
Dave Toht, once the proud owner of eight brown-egg biddies, has more than 60 how-to books to this credit, including the best-selling Backyard Homesteading. He considers harvesting a sun-warmed tomato from his own garden one of life's sweetest pleasures. He and his wife, Rebecca, live in Olympia, Washington.
Table of Contents
Garden structures
- raised bed
- terraced bed
- trellises, cages, and poles
- arbors
- composters
- hot boxes and variations
- vertical gardening
- tool maintenance, organizing
- rooftop installation
Fences and pens
- gates
- wire fences
- wooden fences (wind break, privacy)
- stone fences
- masonry walls
- electric fences
- deer-proof fences
- overhead protection for pens
Basic coop building
-step-by-step small coop
-step-by-step big coop
-assembling a coop kit
-build-your-own feeders and waterers
-roosting
-nesting boxes
-assembling a coop kit
-step-by-step small chicken tractor
-step-by-step small big tractor
Step-by-step shed building
-foundation
-framing
-cladding
-roofing
-step-by-step goat shelter
-step-by-step assembling a shed kit
- feed storage
- animal play structures
Wind power
- options
- water pumping
- electrical generation
Solar power
- vent fan
- pump for cistern
- lighting
Aquaponics
- pond and tank options
- fish
- feed
- filtering
- irrigation
Hydroponics
- do-it-yourself systems
- off-the-shelf options
Building a chicken tractor
-framing
-netting
-hutch
-wheels
Stock feeding, watering
-troughs
-waterers
-mangers
-milking stands
-ponds
Building hives
- Langstroth
- top bar
- Warre
Setting up a farm shop
- basic tools
- bench
- bench tools
- table and radial arm saws
- lighting
Farmyard plumbing
- underground pipes
- wells
- artesian wells
- pumps
- freeze protection
- drip and other irrigation
Farmyard wiring
- underground lines
- GFCI protection
- lighting
- heat
Quick repairs and other improvisations
- leaks
- broken gates
- quick plumbing repairs
- prepping for rough weather
- banishing varmints and predators
- quick fences
- working with PVC pipe (nonplumbing uses)