Weekend Homesteader ready for prime time!
The
May edition of Weekend
Homesteader is now available for 99 cents in
Amazon's Kindle store! The series presents a simple and cheap
project for every weekend of the year to provide stepping stones on
your path to true self-sufficiency. As the introduction says:
This
ebook, and others in the series, are full of short projects that
you can use to dip your toes into the vast ocean of homesteading
without getting overwhelmed. They're geared toward folks who need
to fit homesteading into a few hours each weekend and would like to
have fun while doing it. The projects cover growing your own
food, eating the bounty, preparing for emergency power outages, and
achieving financial independence. You won't be completely
deleting your reliance on the grocery store after reading this
series, but you will be plucking low-hanging (and delicious!) fruits
out
of your own garden by the time the exercises are complete.
Since May has four and a half weekends, the first volume of the series has four and a half projects:
- Planning your summer garden (with tips on the easiest vegetables to grow)
- Making a kill mulch (and why no-till gardens are healthier)
- Planting your summer garden (with information on when and how to plant)
- Making a rain barrel (to collect free water for your garden)
- Turning off your TV (and finding time for what really matters)
Click the "like" button near the top of the
Amazon page even if you don't buy the book.- Scroll down near the bottom of the page to where it says "Tag this product." Click on anything you want, but I'm aiming for "homesteading" and "self-sufficiency", and your vote there would really help. (Again, no purchase necessary.)
- Buy the ebook if you're interested.
- Leave a review, if at all possible.
- Leave a comment on the Weekend Homesteader May resource page letting me know what you loved or hated about this first installment. My advance reader says I'm preaching in the TV chapter, and I'd be curious to hear if that turned you off. (I actually thought I was up on my soapbox more during the no-till chapter.) Were the exercises too easy, too hard, or just right? Did you have trouble with any part of the ebook? I'll take what you say into consideration as I write the June volume.
- Tell your friends!
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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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It might be worth your while to produce a second product from this for the southern hemisphere, titled November. Or perhaps you could run with the non-hemisphere-ist "Late Spring", "Early Summer", "Mid Summer", "Late Summer", etc.
Dunno, just a thought. I'll be checking it out anyway.
Was thinking about it some more last night, and thought maybe you could create a logo/graphic that showed a globe or map of the world, with May in the northern half and November in the southern half.
Or perhaps write "November" upside-down underneath the May :-).
I think pretty much all of your advice works fine in the southern hemisphere, especially for temperate zones. Most of it would still be fine for the sub-tropics even.
The biggest difference for me personally is that we don't get snow or even frost - but that usually just means I can ignore the more difficult parts of your projects! e.g. preventing chicken waterers from freezing, covering plants to stop frost damage, etc