40 Projects For Building Your Backyard Homestead 1st David Toht by David Toht 9781580117104, 1580117104 instant download after payment.

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, Warré 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

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!