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The Weekend Homesteader: A Twelve-Month Guide to Self-Sufficiency

par Anna Hess

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Home Design & Déco Nonfictio HTML: The Weekend Homesteader is organized by month�??so whether it's January or June you'll find 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. You'll learn about backyard chicken care, how to choose the best mushroom and berry species, and why and how to plant a no-till garden that heals the soil while providing nutritious food. Permaculture techniques will turn your homestead into a vibrant ecosystem and attract native pollinators while converting our society's waste into high-quality compost and mulch. Meanwhile, enjoy the fruits of your labor right away as you learn the basics of cooking and eating seasonally, then preserve homegrown produce for later by drying, canning, freezing, or simply filling your kitchen cabinets with storage vegetables. As you become more self-sufficient, you'll save seeds, prepare for power outages, and tear yourself away from a full-time job, while building a supportive and like-minded community. You won't be completely eliminating your reliance on the grocery store, but you will be plucking low-hanging (and delicious!) fruits out of your own garden by the time all forty-eight projects are complete.… (plus d'informations)

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I love this book! It has lots of good, practical ideas that I have never heard of before, and some I have heard of before. Chapters are separated by month and things that should be done in those months. I have more fruit trees to plant this year and will be using her guidelines on using a "hugelkultur" (p. 28). Looking forward to trying other homesteading ideas in this book.

UPDATE: Did not plant fruit trees using the "hugelkultur" system. I'm too lazy! (

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MissysBookshelf | Aug 27, 2023 |

I found this to be an excellent and thought provoking book even though I'm deeply unlikely to make practical use of any of the interesting advice. I am an urban dweller with a small amount of space to work with and an HOA that bans everything from garden sheds and dog houses to clothes lines. My gardening is mostly of the container variety and even if I could sneak a chicken coop or bee hive past my HOA my houseful of rescued PET rabbits is evidence enough that yes, I would be that person running a retirement home for old hens. Still, this book pleasantly combines the author's personal journey into homesteading with practical projects that I can appreciate and enjoy learning about, such as seeding mushroom logs, even when those projects exceed my bandwidth. And hey, I'm inspired to finally put in those rain barrels I've wanted for the last decade! More than anything else I appreciated the thoughtful exercises on being present in your world, knowing yourself (don't grow lettuce if what you really love are beets, even if beets are "harder") and making decisions from that place. That's good advice no matter how small or urban your homestead! (

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Nikchick | Mar 21, 2020 |

The author's aim in this book is to gradually, over the course of a year, ease newbies into "homesteading", which she defines humorously: "To folks over the age of fifty, I [describe it] this way: 'Remember the back-to-the-land movement of the sixties and seventies? Homesteading is the same thing ... without the drugs and the free love.'"

The title sounds dilettantish, but this book is anything but. Within the framework of four "weekend" projects per month, Hess is actually quite in-depth and knowledgeable. Some of the projects are, of course, extremely basic. "Hanging your clothes out to dry" is probably the most obvious example. But within the others, there's something to learn in many chapters. Hugelkultur is already a rather specialized topic, but her two-page sidebar actually has new-to-me information on a modified form she uses in her orchard, providing each tree with a hugelkultur ring. "Compost" includes a brief introduction to permaculture; "Drying Food" has the recipe I've been searching the web for since summer before last -- how to take our home-dried tomatoes, hard as seabiscuits, and marinate them in garlic, oil and basil to get a sun-dried tomato garnish. The grow-your-own-mulch sidebar in the "Mulch" chapter has the most succinct and informative explanation of why to use cover crops and which ones are best for which purpose (compost, mulch, or both).

I'm glad our local library had this very useful book, which I hope to add to our home reference bookshelf soon. (

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muumi | Mar 31, 2017 |

The book is nominally set up to cover seasonal tasks, with 12 chapters named for the months of the year. But I found the topics idiosyncratic, reminding me of the old Foxfire books. With four topics per month sometimes only one was seasonally applicable. The rest are any-time subjects, and sometimes philosophical rather than practical. That’s okay. The information presented is fairly thorough. I learned more about raising bramble berries here than I have elsewhere. Worth a read.

2wonderY | Jan 31, 2014 |

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The Weekend Homesteader is organized by month�??so whether it's January or June you'll find 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. You'll learn about backyard chicken care, how to choose the best mushroom and berry species, and why and how to plant a no-till garden that heals the soil while providing nutritious food.

Permaculture techniques will turn your homestead into a vibrant ecosystem and attract native pollinators while converting our society's waste into high-quality compost and mulch. Meanwhile, enjoy the fruits of your labor right away as you learn the basics of cooking and eating seasonally, then preserve homegrown produce for later by drying, canning, freezing, or simply filling your kitchen cabinets with storage vegetables. As you become more self-sufficient, you'll save seeds, prepare for power outages, and tear yourself away from a full-time job, while building a supportive and like-minded community. You won't be completely eliminating your reliance on the grocery store, but you will be plucking low-hanging (and delicious!) fruits out of your own garden by the time all forty-eight projects are complete.

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