The Backyard Homestead Seasonal Planner: What to Do & When to Do It in the Garden, Orchard, Barn, Pasture & Equipment Shed

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This hardworking addition to the best-selling Backyard Homestead series offers expert advice on what tasks to do around your farm and when to do them—no matter where on the planet you call home. 
Author Ann Larkin Hansen sets the priorities for each area of the farm, including the barn, garden, orchard, field, pasture, and woodlot. For every critical turn of the year (12 in all), Hansen provides an at-a-glance to-do list along with tips and a more in-depth discussion of key topics for the season. Easy-reference charts, checklists, and record-keeping sections help you keep track of it all.
Also available in this series: The Backyard Homestead, The Backyard Homestead Book of Building Projects, The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals, and The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How.

From the Publisher

The essential planning companion from the Backyard Homestead series

Part of the classic series of books that has taught homesteaders everything they need to know, The Backyard Homestead Seasonal Planner provides a framework for what to do around the farm and when to do it.

A seasonal approach applicable for today’s small diversified farms

Combining the most common tasks for small farm enterprises in a single season-by-season planner allows homesteaders to create a custom calendar around their own farm’s needs, from the garden and orchard to the barn and beeyard.

Provides tools and tips to help spread work evenly throughout the year

Along with ample guidance and information, this planner has dedicated space to track your progress, as well checklists and prompts for planning ahead, making tasks manageable and helping you find the path to top productivity.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 3, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 208 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1612126979
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1612126975
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.95 x 9 inches
Part of series ‏ : ‎ Backyard Homestead
Best Sellers Rank: #23,733 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #3 in Outdoor & Recreational Area Gardening #9 in Sustainable Agriculture (Books) #26 in Do-It-Yourself Home Improvement (Books)
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Customers find the seasonal planner informative and well-organized, particularly appreciating its well-structured todo lists by season and room for notes. They consider it a fantastic book for outdoor garden and landscape planning, with one customer noting it provides a simple structure to build farm tasks around. Customers find it interesting to read, and while some consider it worth the investment, others feel it’s not worth the money.