Homesteading For Beginners: How To Build A Profitable Homestead Backyard Farm and Make Money From Urban Farming: Volume 1 (Self-sufficiency minimalism guidebook)

Homesteading For Beginners, William Walsworth: How to Build a Profitable Homestead Backyard Farm & Make Money from Urban Farming The Easy Way: A Self-Sufficiency Survival ... Beginners, Sustainable Lifestyle Book 1)  Review from Jeannie Zelos book reviews Genre:  non fiction I was brought up in a home where most of our food was home grown; fruit and veg fresh in summer and preserved for winter, and winter veg dug out or picked as needed, the goats supplied milk ( eurghh – you either love or hate goats milk, and I hate it), chickens supplied eggs and meat, rabbits also for meat and market, and all the manure from those plus all plant based waste made up compost. We had home made clothes too, sewn, knitted, crocheted, I so wanted a shop bought dress that wasn’t some bigger child’s cast off. Don’t you just feel for me ;-)Anyway, its left me with an appreciation for home grown produce and its taste and freshness, and over the last few years we’ve grown a lot for the family. Sadly now due to health issues its out mostly, except for the trees where now they’re grown its mostly just picking and eating!  I still love to read books about self sufficiency though. This one is a bit different from others I’ve read, its not a “how to grow/rear “ read where the practicalities are discussed, plans given for making sheds, instructions and timings for sowing seeds and planting out etc,  but a how to manage growing the right things in the space you have, what to grow for best profit, how to find a market for produce. It deals very much with the business side of such an enterprise rather than the practical, hands-in-the-soil approach we usually get. Its more a theory read, a how to book detailing turning your home grown food into a business, how to make money from excess produce, and of course anyone that’s grown food knows its all feast or famine so why not make money from that feast side! If you want to be more self sufficient you'll need excess of things you can grow or rear to sell or barter for the things you can't. There is a section that mentions making soaps etc to sell and I'd advise a word of caution here – I know from friends that do just that you'll need to go through a hoopla of regulations to get the certificates you need. Its not impossible of course, and all very necessary to avoid selling something that could cause harm, but another thing to factor into your expenses when working them out. The internet opens a huge market for goods and can be run from home between feeding, mucking out and weeding!!The only thing that’s brought it down for me is that at £3.46 for 84 pages or 571 kindle locations I do think its a bit expensive. Still, its currently on Kindle Unlimited so if you have that its well worth a read. Stars: FourARC supplied by author