Roll up your sleeves and build a better farm!
- 20 DIY projects for the farm or homestead, from practical sawhorses to a beautiful decorative barn quilt
- Step-by-step instructions, tools and materials lists, complete plans, and a time required and skill level key
- Over 400 photos in full color to guide you through every step
- Build a beehive and bee house, learn how to make cottage cheese, graft a fruit tree, extract honey, build a log jack, and more
If you're looking to fix up your farm, and save money doing it yourself, then 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. Packed with complete plans and easy-to-follow construction tips, this book includes utilitarian and decorative items that all feature inexpensive materials and basic techniques. From log jacks, rabbit tractors, and bee houses to a goat seesaw and a barn quilt, clear step-by-step color photographs and instructions will guide you through each hands-on project.
Authors, veteran family farmers, and 4-H alumni Samantha and Daniel Johnson present these 20 essential projects for aspiring homesteaders. 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 you'll need to complete each task. Each project starts with a short background discussion of farming today and how the project might be used on your farm or homestead. Also included are instructions for building an effective farmers' market display stand for arranging and selling your products.
Try your hand at 20 useful and fun projects you can make for less, including:
- Extracting and bottling honey
- Building a goat seesaw and stand
- Building a rabbit nest box
- Making cottage cheese
- Building a stone crib
- Building a barn or stable medicine cabinet
- Planting, protecting, and grafting a fruit tree
- ...and many more!
The projects inside Farm DIY 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 that's easy to complete in an afternoon or one that's more complex, this book presents a wide range of exciting DIY tasks with something for everyone!
Get to work creating the farm of your dreams, with the do-it-yourself projects inside Farm DIY!
"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
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.
