The Essential Guide to Hobby Farming : A How-To Manual for Crops, Livestock, and Your Business
Second Edition
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
162008144X
ISBN-13
9781620081440
Edition
Second Edition
Publisher
Companion House
Imprint
Companion House
Country of Manufacture
CN
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 23rd, 2015
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
822 grams
Product Classification:
Agriculture & farming
Ksh 3,350.00
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Title of first edition: Hobby farm: living your rural dream for pleasure and profit.
Six containers of heirloom tomatoes, miniature squashes, and herbs on your back patio or six acres of beets, cabbages, and strawberries? Five chickens and a honey bee hive or a small farm with three dozen sheep and a couple of quarter horses?
Regardless of the size of your "field of dreams," Essential Guide to Hobby Farming is your best first step to making that hobby-farm aspiration a pleasurable and profitable reality. A hobby farmer for the past thirty years, Carol Ekarius shares the joys, challenges, and rewards of living the rural life. Hobby farming is as much a state of mind as it is an address in the country, and this instructive, beautifully photographed manual addresses every topic beginning hobby farmers need to know, from purchasing the right land and equipment to choosing and maintaining crops and livestock to marketing and selling your hobby farm''s yield.
TOPICS DISCUSSED INSIDE:
-Assessing finances and resources land, water, tools of the trade (trucks, tractors, various implements)
-Choosing the best crops for your land, climate, hardiness, and profitability
-Selecting and caring for the livestock chickens, goats, cows, sheep, etc. that best fits your hobby farm
-Protecting crops and livestock against predators, pests, and disease
-Business and marketing options for selling your "local food" directly to restaurants and farmers'' markets and through CSA programs
-Preserving the harvest, through canning, drying, and freezing, plus over two dozen original recipes for your homegrown produce
NEW FOR THE SECOND EDITION:
Expanded section on chickens, including urban and suburban accommodations; honey bee keeping; adding a barn or annex building to the farm; trends in planting, including miniature vegetables, heirloom varieties, and "hot" new vegetables and hybrids; adding flower beds to the property; getting involved with a CSA
Regardless of the size of your "field of dreams," Essential Guide to Hobby Farming is your best first step to making that hobby-farm aspiration a pleasurable and profitable reality. A hobby farmer for the past thirty years, Carol Ekarius shares the joys, challenges, and rewards of living the rural life. Hobby farming is as much a state of mind as it is an address in the country, and this instructive, beautifully photographed manual addresses every topic beginning hobby farmers need to know, from purchasing the right land and equipment to choosing and maintaining crops and livestock to marketing and selling your hobby farm''s yield.
TOPICS DISCUSSED INSIDE:
-Assessing finances and resources land, water, tools of the trade (trucks, tractors, various implements)
-Choosing the best crops for your land, climate, hardiness, and profitability
-Selecting and caring for the livestock chickens, goats, cows, sheep, etc. that best fits your hobby farm
-Protecting crops and livestock against predators, pests, and disease
-Business and marketing options for selling your "local food" directly to restaurants and farmers'' markets and through CSA programs
-Preserving the harvest, through canning, drying, and freezing, plus over two dozen original recipes for your homegrown produce
NEW FOR THE SECOND EDITION:
Expanded section on chickens, including urban and suburban accommodations; honey bee keeping; adding a barn or annex building to the farm; trends in planting, including miniature vegetables, heirloom varieties, and "hot" new vegetables and hybrids; adding flower beds to the property; getting involved with a CSA
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