Farm DIY: 20 Useful and Fun Projects for Your Farm or Homestead - Softcover

Johnson, Samantha; Johnson, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1620083329 ISBN 13: 9781620083321

Publisher: CompanionHouse Books, 2019

Synopsis

Roll Up Your Sleeves and Build a Better Farm! Loaded with complete plans and easy-to-follow construction tips, this book offers a creative mix of both practical and decorative projects for working and hobby farms. Veteran family farmers and 4-H alumni Samantha and Daniel Johnson present 20 essential projects for aspiring homesteaders. From log jacks, rabbit hutches, and milking stands to a weather vane and a barn quilt, clear step-by-step color photographs guide the reader through each hands-on project. An introduction to the DIY mindset explains the positive benefits and satisfaction of building things yourself, and provides an overview of the basic tools and skills needed to complete each task. Farm DIY also includes a background discussion of farming today, and instructions for building an effective farmer’s market display stand for selling your products. Inside Farm DIY · 20 step-by-step, do-it-yourself projects for creating the farm of your dreams. · Build practical items like fences, gates, bee houses, log jacks, rabbit hutches and milking stools. · Make fun items like a weather vane, a barn quilt and a goat see-saw. · Create an attractive display stand for selling your products at farmer’s markets. · Easy-to-complete projects all feature inexpensive materials and basic techniques.

About this title

About the Authors

Samantha Johnson has collaborated on a number of rural-living guidebooks, including How to Raise Rabbits and Beginner's Guide to Beekeeping. A 4-H alumna who lives on a family farm in northern Wisconsin, Samantha is a certified horse show judge and raises purebred Welsh Mountain ponies and Dutch, Holland Lop, and Netherland Dwarf rabbits.

Daniel Johnson is a professional photographer who specializes in imagery of farm life. He is the author of the 4-H Guide to Digital Photography and the coauthor of The Field Guide to Horses. He lives on a family-owned horse farm in northern Wisconsin.

From the Back Cover

Roll Up Your Sleeves & Build a Better Farm!

If you're looking to fix up your farm (and do it yourself), look no further! Featuring a creative mix of both practical and decorative projects for working and hobby farms, Farm DIY is the ultimate guide to enhancing your homestead. Try your hand at 20 useful and fun projects, from extracting and bottling honey to building a goat seesaw and stand. Also included is an introduction on the benefits of building things yourself, as well as an overview on the basic tools and skills needed to complete each task. From there, the projects that follow contain estimated time frames, suggested skill levels, step-by-step instructions, coordinating full-color photography, and lists for parts, tools, and lumber cuts. Whether you're looking for a project to complete in an afternoon or one that's more complex, this book presents a wide range of exciting DIY tasks so there's something for everyone! Now get ready to get to work!

Learn how to:

• Build a Beehouse
• Plant a Fruit Tree
• Paint a Barn
• Build a Goat Stand
• Build a Beehive
• Graft a Fruit Tree
• AND SO MUCH MORE!

"Daniel and Samantha Johnson have put together an attractive, interesting, and informative book, illustrating some excellent do-it-yourself projects that would be of interest to acreage owners, hobby farmers, and commercial producers alike. Whether you are a novice or experienced woodworker, or even an up-and-coming preteen or older farmhand looking to learn some skills, Farm DIY guides readers of varying skill levels through 20 different building projects that can be functional or decorative or both. Well worth a look."
—Lee Hart, Field Editor, Grainews

Also by Daniel Johnson and Samantha Johnson:
Chicken DIY

Edition details

• Publisher: CompanionHouse Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1620083329
• ISBN 13: 9781620083321
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192