A New Urban Habitat Giveaway! « New Urban Habitat

A New Urban Habitat Giveaway!

June 8, 2009 by newurbanhabitat

Backyard Homestead

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!-

Posted in New Urban Habitat | Tagged Backyard Chickens, Backyard homesteading, Giveaway, Urban Farming, Urban Homesteading | 41 Comments

41 Responses

on June 8, 2009 at 7:14 pm | Reply Marianne

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!
on June 8, 2009 at 8:35 pm | Reply mrs boo radley

What a fabulous book! Pick me!
on June 8, 2009 at 9:31 pm | Reply pomegranates

oh me me me!!
on June 8, 2009 at 9:32 pm | Reply Kith

“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!
on June 8, 2009 at 9:34 pm | Reply pomegranates

and the twitter is up too!
on June 9, 2009 at 6:12 am | Reply Stephanie

I would love to read this book! Thanks for the chance.
on June 9, 2009 at 7:51 am | Reply Tina

Oh I would love to win this! Great givaway, Thanks!
on June 9, 2009 at 7:53 am | Reply Tina

Posted to twitter also! http://twitter.com/honkytonk80girl
on June 9, 2009 at 8:48 am | Reply Suzy

This book has been on my Amazon wishlist for a bit now and it would be just too wonderful to WIN it!
on June 9, 2009 at 8:49 am | Reply Suzy

Just twittered the announcement too!
on June 9, 2009 at 9:05 am | Reply Kelly G.

I want one! I also tweeted (circlephoto)!
on June 9, 2009 at 9:28 am | Reply steadymom

I’ve been intrigued by this title before, so I would love to be entered. Thanks!

Jamie
on June 9, 2009 at 9:44 am | Reply Lisa h

Wow, this sounds like a great book. I’d love to learn all those things.
on June 9, 2009 at 12:27 pm | Reply A Giveaway from New Urban Habitat « believing nature

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on June 9, 2009 at 12:27 pm | Reply pomegranates

third time is a charm! i’ve posted it here: http://believingnature.wordpress.com/2009/06/09/a-giveaway-from-new-urban-habitat/
on June 9, 2009 at 6:05 pm | Reply Kim

Would love to have this book. Am already gardening & making jams, but want to do more – especially the chickens!!!
on June 9, 2009 at 6:32 pm | Reply Kim

Post up on my blog. Keeping my fingers crossed that I’m the winner.
on June 9, 2009 at 6:41 pm | Reply Carol S

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
on June 9, 2009 at 8:39 pm | Reply Deborah R

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.
on June 9, 2009 at 8:41 pm | Reply Deborah R

Tweet! http://twitter.com/AsTheNight/status/2098934764
on June 10, 2009 at 6:38 am | Reply kim v

Sounds great!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Kimspam66(at)yahoo(dot)com
on June 10, 2009 at 6:41 am | Reply kim v

Listed the giveaway under current giveaways on blog.
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on June 10, 2009 at 8:51 am | Reply Jason

This looks like a great book. Thanks for the chance

jason(at)allworldautomotive(dot)com
on June 10, 2009 at 8:57 am | Reply Lisa Zahn

I’d love this book!
on June 10, 2009 at 9:14 am | Reply Eilish

What a great giveaway. Count me in!
on June 10, 2009 at 9:15 am | Reply Nancy M.

Cool giveaway! Thanks!
on June 10, 2009 at 11:58 am | Reply Heather

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!~
on June 10, 2009 at 1:29 pm | Reply Sharon A

I so want to do more in my yard. I would love to win this book.
on June 10, 2009 at 3:04 pm | Reply lorene

Looks interesting with lots of information
on June 10, 2009 at 6:47 pm | Reply Nicole Dzuba

I’m a new homeowner and would love to read this book. Please enter me!
on June 10, 2009 at 10:21 pm | Reply MRS.MOMMYY

looks great please include me mrs.mommyyatgmaildotcom
on June 11, 2009 at 9:30 am | Reply Kay

Wow! Looks like a great book! I’d love to read it.
on June 11, 2009 at 9:43 am | Reply Jeremy

Enter me in! @jmbollman: Just tweeted about the contest.
on June 11, 2009 at 9:50 am | Reply Mary D

Please enter me My daughter and I would really love to get some great ideas from this book!
on June 12, 2009 at 2:59 am | Reply Belinda

I have a garden and fruit trees but would love to learn how to maximize my space and my time.
Thanks!
on June 12, 2009 at 8:22 am | Reply wendy wallach

I love these types of books please enter me.

madamerkf at aol dot com
on June 12, 2009 at 9:22 am | Reply Anastasia Robbins

I would love a copy of this!
on June 12, 2009 at 9:41 am | Reply Amanda S.

Sounds like a great book! I’d love to win! Thanks.
on June 12, 2009 at 12:23 pm | Reply Michelle

I’m in! bellydancersnightcap@gmail.com Thanks!!!
on June 12, 2009 at 12:26 pm | Reply Nature Deva

Sounds like a good book. Your chickens are around the same age as mine. Can’t wait til they start laying eggs in August!
on June 12, 2009 at 11:11 pm | Reply Sharon Fairclough

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