Are you struggling with a thorny garden problem and can't figure out why your cucumbers keep dying or what that pesky weed is in your pasture?  Maybe you're more interested in breaking free of your job and need some tips to turn your microbusiness idea into a reality.  Or perhaps you've just moved to your dream homestead and are trying to decide where to put the chicken coop and which of those sticks in the yard are fruit trees and bushes.

We're here to help!  One lucky reader will win a free consultation to smooth their path to homesteading independence.  Two hours of email answers from me and Mark can save you weeks (maybe even years) of trial and error, and we promise you'll get your money's worth.  Use it up all at once, or have Walden Effect as your on-call mentor all summer.

What do you have to do to enter our giveaway?  The paperback edition of Weekend Homesteader is now available to preorder (yay!), and we need help spreading the word.  This more polished version of the monthly ebooks I've been publishing for the last year contains 368 pages of full color photos and text to guide you on the path to self-sufficiency.  Even if you've read all of the ebooks, I suspect the $11 paperback will be worth a second read since I've added in dozens of sidebars and three all new chapters.  The Weekend Homesteader won't be in print until October, but you can preorder now and be the first on your block to hold a copy of the book in your hands.

To spread the word, choose one or more of the following options, then leave a comment below telling me how many times to enter you in the drawing.  (Each way you spread the word equates to one entry.)

• Preorder the book on Amazon.
  
• Tell your friends via facebook, google plus, your blog, email, twitter, or even plain old face-to-face chatting.
• Leave a review on any of my ebooks on Amazon.  (You can see them all in one place on my author page, or just search for my name.  Please only leave reviews on books you've read.)
• A very easy freebie for all of you --- click the "like" button on the Amazon page of my paperback.
• Some other ingenious way of spreading the word --- you decide!

So, if you preordered two copies of the book, posted on facebook and your blog, and left two reviews, you'd be entered six times!  The more times you enter, of course, the more likely you are to win.  (Just be sure to leave a comment on this post before midnight on April 13 to tell me how many times to put your name in the hat.)  Thanks so much in advance for entering and helping spread the word!

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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