Creating Your Backyard Farm: How to grow fruit and vegetables and raise chickens and bees - Softcover

Trench, Nicki

 
9781908862938: Creating Your Backyard Farm: How to grow fruit and vegetables and raise chickens and bees

Synopsis

If you dream of growing, harvesting, and eating your own produce, here’s how to begin.

Author Nicki Trench, who has created her own backyard farm from scratch, shares with you everything there is to know about growing vegetables, fruit, and herbs, including making your own compost, growing in raised beds, and protecting your crops from pests and disease. Nicki also explains how to rear chickens for eggs and bees for honey, and gives advice on keeping goats and pigs. The benefits of creating your backyard farm are not just economic—the energy once obsessively expended on the exercise bike can now be channelled more productively by digging the vegetable patch, turning the compost or cleaning out the hen coop. Communities are reappearing over backyard fences as neighbors share their harvest of zucchini, spinach, and eggs. Whatever you choose to grow or rear on your backyard farm, this book offers a taste of the good life that is easy, satisfying, and inexpensive to achieve.

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About the Author

Nicki Trench is one of the leading figures in the revival and promotion of home crafts. Her books include Cute and Easy Crocheted CoziesCrochet Basics, Cute & Easy Crochet (over 125,000 copies sold), Cute and Easy Crochet with FlowersGeek Chic Crochet, Cute & Easy Crocheted Baby Clothes, A Passion for Quilting, Super-scary Crochet, and Super-cute Crochet, all published by CICO Books. Visit her website at www.nickitrench.com and her blog at nickitrench.blogspot.com. The author is based in East Sussex, UK.

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Other Popular Editions of the Same Title

9781907030116: Creating Your Backyard Farm: How to Grow Fruit and Vegetables, and Raise Chickens and Bees (The Green Home)

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ISBN 10:  1907030115 ISBN 13:  9781907030116
Publisher: Cico Books, 2010
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