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40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead: A Hands-on, Step-by-Step Sustainable-Living Guide (Creative Homeowner) Fences, Chicken Coops, Sheds, Gardening, and More for Becoming Self-Sufficient - Softcover
Synopsis
Learn all about how to build sheds, feeders, fences, and other backyard structures to enhance your sustainable living!
- Garden structures: Raised beds, planters and arbors, self-watering beds, grow-light stand, soil blocks
- Fences and pens: Fence post basics, picket fence, solar electric fence, installing and stretching fences, hen pen and hurdle, gates, PVC hen pen
- Housing chickens: Basics for housing chickens, building a coop and run, complete material and cutting lists, exploded views, building an A-frame chicken tractor
- Building sheds: Basics for building, goat shed, saltbox garden shed, backyard-homestead shop, roofing alternatives
- Solar and wind power: Compressor and gearbox windmills, how solar works, erecting a windmill, installing a solar power system
- Aquaponics and hydroponics: Understanding aquaponics, understanding hydroponics, basics of a DIY aquaponic system, how to install a hydroponic system
- Building beehives: Langstroth beehive, Warré beehive, top-bar beehive (aka the Kenyan or Tanzanian beehive), step-by-step building instructions and exploded views
- Plumbing and wiring: Plumbing basics, ground-fault circuit interrupters, freeze-proof watering options, outdoor wiring, supplemental lighting
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 your sustainable living.
The projects in this book are designed with simplicity, convenience, and budget in mind. You will also find help on how to expand or contract the projects to suit your needs.
With step-by-step instructions, tools and materials lists, exploded views, and easy-to-understand techniques, even if you are only moderately handy, you'll discover how to build your own feeders, fences, and structures. In the process, you'll save money and have the satisfaction of doing it yourself!
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From the Author
Writing this book was a fascinating journey in coming up with projects that were innovative enough to be something you'd want to add to your homestead as well as straightforward for you to build. I also wanted to be sure they'd be good-looking--an asset to your property and easy on the eye for the neighbors.
These also had to be functional projects that were easy to use and maintain. That meant looking at a lot of projects on existing homesteads to see what worked and what didn't. An example: Too many chicken coops require you to get down on your knees to gather eggs and top up the feeder and waterer. I learned with my several flocks of poultry that if my coop is easy to access, I'll do a better job of caring for my birds. I also tried hard to keep things simple--no exotic materials and nothing that is crazy hard to build. You should be able to find all your building supplies at your local home center. It is my hope that the steps and plans provided will be enough guide anyone who is moderately handy.
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Contents
8 Introduction
12 Garden Structures
14 Buildinga Wood Raised Bed
21 Constructing a Concrete Block Raised Bed
29Irrigating a Raised Bed
32 Making aBottom-Watered Container Garden
36 Buildingan Inclined Planter
39 Buildingan Arbor
50 Adding aTrellised Arbor
57 Installinga Tool Storage Rack
60 Making aGrow-Light Stand
64 MakingSoil Blocks
68 Fences and Pens
70 Post Foundations
71 InstallingPosts
74 Notching Posts
76 Installing a Picket Fence
78 Choosing a Horizontal-Board Fence
79 Installing aHorizontal-Board Fence
80 Installing a Vertical-BoardFence
81 Installing Wood and WireFences
83 Choosing Gate Latches
84 Making a Picket Gate
86 StretchingFence
90 Adding aGate
96 Installinga Solar-Powered Electric Fence
101 Making aPVC Hen Pen
109 Making aPVC Hurdle
112 Housing Chickens
114Building a Chicken Coop and Run
132Building an A-frame Chicken Tractor
142 Building Sheds
144 Building Basics
152 Saltbox Shed
178 Goat shed
190 Roofing Alternatives
192 Setting Up a Farm Shop
196 Solar & Wind Power
198 Installing a Water-PumpingWindmill
202 Adding Solar Power
206 Aquaponics & Hydroponics
208 Understanding Aquaponics
210 Assembling a Hydroponic System
216 Building Bee Hives
217 Building a Langstroth Hive
224 Making a Warre Hive
225 Building a Top Bar Hive
226Farmyard Plumbing & Wiring
228 No-Sewat Sweating
229 Water Where You Want It
230 Installing an Anti-Freeze Spigot
232 Repairing a Freeze-proof Sillcock
233 Adding a Freeze-Proof Yard Hydrant
235 Your Friend, the GFCI Receptacle
237 Installing a GFCI Receptacle
238 Running Outdoor Conduit and Cable
239 Adding Outdoor Electrical Boxes
240 Installing Outdoor Receptacles and Switches
241 Conduit andFittings
242 Installing UF Cable
244 Installing a Stand-Alone Receptacle
245 Adding Supplemental Light forPoultry
247 Resources
249 Index
248 Photo credits
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- PublisherCreative Homeowner
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1580117104
- ISBN 13 9781580117104
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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