Farm DIY: 20 Useful and Fun Projects for your Farm and Homestead

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Roll Up Your Sleeves and Build a Better Farm! Loaded with complete plans and easy-to-follow construction tips, this book offers a creative mix of both practical and decorative projects for working and hobby farms. Veteran family farmers and 4-H alumni Samantha and Daniel Johnson present 20 essential projects for aspiring homesteaders. From log jacks, rabbit hutches, and milking stands to a weather vane and a barn quilt, clear step-by-step color photographs guide the reader through each hands-on project. An introduction to the DIY mindset explains the positive benefits and satisfaction of building things yourself, and provides an overview of the basic tools and skills needed to complete each task. Farm DIY also includes a background discussion of farming today, and instructions for building an effective farmer’s market display stand for selling your products. Inside Farm DIY · 20 step-by-step, do-it-yourself projects for creating the farm of your dreams. · Build practical items like fences, gates, bee houses, log jacks, rabbit hutches and milking stools. · Make fun items like a weather vane, a barn quilt and a goat see-saw. · Create an attractive display stand for selling your products at farmer’s markets. · Easy-to-complete projects all feature inexpensive materials and basic techniques. Introduction Tools: What You’ll Need Projects Build a Bee House Make a Candy Board for Honey Bees Extract and Bottle Honey Build a Goat Seesaw Build a Log Jack Paint a Barn Plant a Fruit Tree Protect a Fruit Tree Build a Rabbit Nest Box Build Sawhorses Build a Stone Boat Build a Stone Crib Build a Beehive Build a Goat Stand Build a Farmers’ Market Display Stand Build a Rabbit Tractor Make Cottage Cheese Build a Barn Quilt Graft a Fruit Tree Build a Barn/Stable Medicine Cabinet Index About the Authors