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The everything backyard farming book : a guide to self-sufficient living through growing, harvesting, raising, and preserving your own food

2013

Format:	Book
Author:	Shelton, Neil.
Title:	The everything backyard farming book : a guide to self-sufficient living through growing, harvesting, raising, and preserving your own food / Neil Shelton.
Publisher, Date:	Avon, Massachusetts : Adams Media, 2013.
Description:	304 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:	Whether you're worried about the quality or the cost of the food you buy, you'll find that building a backyard farm can provide you with an abundance of food that is fresh, sustainable, and inexpensive. This common-sense guide give you all you need to take control of the food you eat.
Series:	An Everything series book Everything series.
Subjects:	Urban agriculture -- United States. Farms, Small -- United States. Backyard gardens -- United States. Gardening -- United States.
Other Title:	Guide to self-sufficient living through growing, harvesting, raising, and preserving your own food
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:	Backyard-farming basics -- How to become a backyard farmer -- Things you'll need and things you won't need -- Backyard farming obstacles -- Farming when you don't have a backyard -- Backyard farming on a small lot -- Backyard farming on a larger lot -- Compost -- Intensive planting -- Growing vegetables -- Berries and grapes -- The backyard orchard -- Poultry -- Small livestock -- Pests and pestilence -- Fencing -- Equipment -- Hand tools -- Expanding the growing season -- Food storage -- Truck farming: cash from your crops.
LCCN:	2013030963
ISBN:	9781440566011 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1440566011 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Other Number:	857356552
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
# Local items:	1
Control Number:	429019
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Call Number:	635.091 Shelton

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