Your Backyard Farming Experience Begins Here!
Give Back to Your Garden by Composting!
Backyard Farming: Composting is your all-in-one guide for creating
your own homestead composting plan and adding rich, nourishing humus to
your garden. This guide reviews every important topic from what should
and should not be composted, benefits and uses for compost, how to build
a compost bin, and much more.
Whether you're composting the waste from your farm or just the scraps
from your kitchen, Composting is the comprehensive primer for
anyone looking to start composting and bring that "black gold" to their
own garden. Including detailed instructions and informative photographs
that help ensure your compost system is practical and productive,
Composting takes you step by step through everything you need to
nourish your garden--and build healthy, rich soil.
With Composting, you will:
- Choose the composting method that works best for you, your needs, and
your available material
- Discover how to begin a compost system and how to maintain it for
optimal yield
- Construct your own composting system from a variety of easy-to-follow
plans
- Learn how to troubleshoot any problem your compost pile might
develop
- Find out how best to use your compost--including indoor container
gardening
...and much more to help you achieve success.
More than ever, people everywhere are making a return to a
self-sufficient, sustainable lifestyle. Join the growing movement of
homemakers looking to a healthier, happier way of life--and it starts
right in your very own backyard.
Backyard Farming is a series of easy-to-use guides to help urban,
suburban, and rural dwellers turn their homes into homesteads. Whether
planning to grow food for the family or for sale at the local farmers
market, Backyard Farming provides simple instruction and essential
information in a convenient reference.