Название: 40 Projects for Building Your Backyard HomesteadАвтор: David Toht
Издательство: Creative Homeowner
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 37 Мб
Язык: английский / English
A companion volume to Backyard Homesteading, 40 Projects for Building Your Backyard Homestead provides details on how to build more than 40 projects to enhance your sustainable living. The projects in this book are designed with simplicity, convenience, and budget in mind. You will also find help on how to expand or contract the projects to suit your needs. With step-by-step instructions, tools and materials lists, exploded views, and easy-to-understand techniques, even if you are only moderately handy, you'll discover how to build your own feeders, fences, and structures. In the process, you'll save money and have the satisfaction of doing it yourself!
Learn all about how to build sheds, feeders, fences, and other backyard structures to enhance your sustainable living!
Garden structures: Raised beds, planters and arbors, self-watering beds, grow-light stand, soil blocks
Fences and pens: Fence post basics, picket fence, solar electric fence, installing and stretching fences, hen pen and hurdle, gates, PVC hen pen
Housing chickens: Basics for housing chickens, building a coop and run, complete material and cutting lists, exploded views, building an A-frame chicken tractor
Building sheds: Basics for building, goat shed, saltbox garden shed, backyard-homestead shop, roofing alternatives
Solar and wind power: Compressor and gearbox windmills, how solar works, erecting a windmill, installing a solar power system
Aquaponics and hydroponics: Understanding aquaponics, understanding hydroponics, basics of a DIY aquaponic system, how to install a hydroponic system
Building beehives: Langstroth beehive, Warr? beehive, top-bar beehive (aka the Kenyan or Tanzanian beehive), step-by-step building instructions and exploded views
Plumbing and wiring: Plumbing basics, ground-fault circuit interrupters, freeze-proof watering options, outdoor wiring, supplemental lighting