Weekend Homesteader: March

Embark on a spring homesteading adventure with this final volume of Weekend Homesteader. You'll plant a garden of cool season crops to feed you as early as April, and will also inoculate logs with edible mushrooms for years' worth of feasts. Meanwhile, find out how to enhance the long term health of your homestead by building a compost pile and attracting native pollinators.

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For those of you who are new to Weekend Homesteader, this series walks you through the basics of growing your own food, cooking the bounty, preparing for emergency power outages, and achieving financial independence. Technically, the series began in May (or November in the southern hemisphere), but most of the projects are designed to be accessible even to someone starting from square one each month. This ebook, and each other volume in the series, presents one easy and fun project for each weekend so that you'll keep making headway without becoming overwhelmed.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 56 pages

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