About this ebook
This fully updated second edition of the popular Weekend Homesteader series includes exciting, short projects that you can use to dip your toes into the vast ocean of homesteading without getting overwhelmed. If you need to fit homesteading into a few hours each weekend and would like to have fun while doing it, these projects will be right up your alley, whether you live on a forty-acre farm, a postage-stamp lawn in suburbia, or a high rise.
The Fall volume includes the following projects:
* Save your own seeds
* Dry garden produce
* Build a chicken coop or tractor
* Make a rain barrel
* Eat seasonally
* Can tomatoes
* Bring your chickens home
* Experience voluntary simplicity
* Extend the fall gardening season with quick hoops
* Store vegetables on the shelf
* Scavenge biomass for the garden
* Become an apprentice
The second edition has been revised and expanded to match the paperback, with extra photos and feedback from weekend homesteaders just like you, plus permaculture-related avenues for the more advanced homesteader to explore.
About the author
Anna Hess enjoys writing about her adventures, both on her blog at www.WaldenEffect.org and in her books. Her first paperback, The Weekend Homesteader, helped tens of thousands of homesteaders-to-be find ways to fit their dreams into the hours left over from a full-time job. Hess is also the author of Bug-free Organic Gardening, Trailersteading, The Ultimate Guide to Soil, Homegrown Humus and several ebook-only titles. She lives with her husband in the foothills of southeastern Ohio.
