I’ll be away for most of this week, so what better time for a giveaway?
Do you dream about putting your backyard to work for you? Are you aching to get your hands dirty and plant a garden? Do you eye the Mason jars at the grocery store and dream about preserving? Are you itching to adopt a flock of backyard chickens to lay fresh, nutritious eggs just steps from your backdoor? The Backyard Homestead, edited by Carleen Madigan, tells you everything you need to know to get started.
In easy, user-friendly format, The Backyard Homestead explains how to:
- Grow vegetables, fruits, nuts, and grains
- Grow herbs and brew herbal teas
- Preserve your harvests by root cellaring, freezing, drying, and canning
- Save seeds
- Raise chickens, cows, sheep, goats, pigs, and rabbits
- Keep bees
- Mill grains
- Make bread
- Brew beer
- Make yogurt, butter, and cheese
- Make wine, vinegar, and cider
- Tap a maple tree
- and much more….
Madigan writes that in one year on a quarter acre of land, you can harvest 1,400 eggs, 50 pounds of wheat, 60 pounds of fruit, 2,000 pounds of vegetables, 280 pounds of pork, and 75 pounds of nuts.
I’m giving away one copy of The Backyard Homestead. To enter:
- Leave me a comment.
Double your chance of winning by:
- Mentioning the giveaway in your blog. (Leave a comment telling me about it.)
Triple your chance of winning by:
- Tweeting about the giveaway on Twitter. (Leave a comment telling me about it.)
Make sure you leave me your correct email address. The giveaway will close on Friday, June 12 at 6 p.m. (Pacific time). I’ll randomly choose and notify a winner by email on Saturday, June 13. The winner should reply to my email and provide me with a mailing address by Tuesday, June 16. (If I don’t hear from the winner by then, I’ll choose a new winner from the entries next Wednesday.)
Good luck!
-Comments closed. I’ll announce the winner tomorrow!-
#1 by Marianne on June 8, 2009 - 7:14 pm
What a great give-a-way! I would love to add “The Backyard Homestead” to my library.
I have (or rather am about to) mention your give-a-way on both of my blogs!
#2 by mrs boo radley on June 8, 2009 - 8:35 pm
What a fabulous book! Pick me!
#3 by pomegranates on June 8, 2009 - 9:31 pm
oh me me me!!
#4 by Kith on June 8, 2009 - 9:32 pm
“Madigan writes that in one year on a quarter acre of land, you can harvest 1,400 eggs, 50 pounds of wheat, 60 pounds of fruit, 2,000 pounds of vegetables, 280 pounds of pork, and 75 pounds of nuts.”
AMAZING!
I spoke with a ‘Mom’s club’ here in Portland last week about gardening and a lot of them were interested in growing some of their own food, but were’t sure how to get started. I think this is the general consensus. The question is how do we get radical information like Madigan talks about into the mainstream mindframe?!? (answer: giveaways)
I believe that human potential is unlimited! and that it will take an extraordinary effort, but we can shift thought process on a community level.
We talk about plants and soil everyday at the nursery and we have put in various ornamental and vegetable gardens for people to experience, but I feel like there is so much more to do….
Together we can!
Keep up the great work with this blog!
#5 by pomegranates on June 8, 2009 - 9:34 pm
and the twitter is up too!
#6 by Stephanie on June 9, 2009 - 6:12 am
I would love to read this book! Thanks for the chance.
#7 by Tina on June 9, 2009 - 7:51 am
Oh I would love to win this! Great givaway, Thanks!
#8 by Tina on June 9, 2009 - 7:53 am
Posted to twitter also! http://twitter.com/honkytonk80girl
#9 by Suzy on June 9, 2009 - 8:48 am
This book has been on my Amazon wishlist for a bit now and it would be just too wonderful to WIN it!
#10 by Suzy on June 9, 2009 - 8:49 am
Just twittered the announcement too!
#11 by Kelly G. on June 9, 2009 - 9:05 am
I want one! I also tweeted (circlephoto)!
#12 by steadymom on June 9, 2009 - 9:28 am
I’ve been intrigued by this title before, so I would love to be entered. Thanks!
Jamie
#13 by Lisa h on June 9, 2009 - 9:44 am
Wow, this sounds like a great book. I’d love to learn all those things.
#14 by pomegranates on June 9, 2009 - 12:27 pm
third time is a charm! i’ve posted it here: http://believingnature.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/a-giveaway-from-new-urban-habitat/
#15 by Kim on June 9, 2009 - 6:05 pm
Would love to have this book. Am already gardening & making jams, but want to do more – especially the chickens!!!
#16 by Kim on June 9, 2009 - 6:32 pm
Post up on my blog. Keeping my fingers crossed that I’m the winner.
#17 by Carol S on June 9, 2009 - 6:41 pm
This book sounds wonderful. I am trying to be more self-sufficient and this has a lot of things I would like to know how to do. Thanks
#18 by Deborah R on June 9, 2009 - 8:39 pm
I’ve been working on learning skills like bread making (I’m not half bad!), cheesemaking and yogurtmaking – and growing some veggies and preserving. It’s kind of hard to do on my own and I think this book would be a huge help. Thanks for the chance to win it.
#19 by Deborah R on June 9, 2009 - 8:41 pm
Tweet! http://twitter.com/AsTheNight/status/2098934764
#20 by kim v on June 10, 2009 - 6:38 am
Sounds great!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Kimspam66(at)yahoo(dot)com
#21 by kim v on June 10, 2009 - 6:41 am
Listed the giveaway under current giveaways on blog.
http://metroreader.blogspot.com/
#22 by Jason on June 10, 2009 - 8:51 am
This looks like a great book. Thanks for the chance
jason(at)allworldautomotive(dot)com
#23 by Lisa Zahn on June 10, 2009 - 8:57 am
I’d love this book!
#24 by Eilish on June 10, 2009 - 9:14 am
What a great giveaway. Count me in!
#25 by Nancy M. on June 10, 2009 - 9:15 am
Cool giveaway! Thanks!
#26 by Heather on June 10, 2009 - 11:58 am
This book is amazing! I must have this!~
We just planted our first veggie patch this spring… a modest 6×6 square in our little postage-stamp sized yard. I would really love to learn about how to grow and preserve my own food on my little patch of earth. Thanks for the awesome giveaway chance!~
#27 by Sharon A on June 10, 2009 - 1:29 pm
I so want to do more in my yard. I would love to win this book.
#28 by lorene on June 10, 2009 - 3:04 pm
Looks interesting with lots of information
#29 by Nicole Dzuba on June 10, 2009 - 6:47 pm
I’m a new homeowner and would love to read this book. Please enter me!
#30 by MRS.MOMMYY on June 10, 2009 - 10:21 pm
looks great please include me mrs.mommyyatgmaildotcom
#31 by Kay on June 11, 2009 - 9:30 am
Wow! Looks like a great book! I’d love to read it.
#32 by Jeremy on June 11, 2009 - 9:43 am
Enter me in! @jmbollman: Just tweeted about the contest.
#33 by Mary D on June 11, 2009 - 9:50 am
Please enter me
My daughter and I would really love to get some great ideas from this book!
#34 by Belinda on June 12, 2009 - 2:59 am
I have a garden and fruit trees but would love to learn how to maximize my space and my time.
Thanks!
#35 by wendy wallach on June 12, 2009 - 8:22 am
I love these types of books please enter me.
madamerkf at aol dot com
#36 by Anastasia Robbins on June 12, 2009 - 9:22 am
I would love a copy of this!
#37 by Amanda S. on June 12, 2009 - 9:41 am
Sounds like a great book! I’d love to win! Thanks.
#38 by Michelle on June 12, 2009 - 12:23 pm
I’m in!
bellydancersnightcap@gmail.com Thanks!!!
#39 by Nature Deva on June 12, 2009 - 12:26 pm
Sounds like a good book. Your chickens are around the same age as mine. Can’t wait til they start laying eggs in August!
#40 by Sharon Fairclough on June 12, 2009 - 11:11 pm
What a great giveaway, sounds like a great book It is my goal to start making my own bread. Thanks for the giveaway
sharr1226 at yahoo dot com