Farm DIY

Loaded with complete plans and easy-to-follow construction tips, Farm DIY offers 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.

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Samantha Johnson has collaborated on a number of rural-living guidebooks, including How to Raise Rabbits and Beginner's Guide to Beekeeping. A 4-H alumna who lives on a family farm in northern Wisconsin, Samantha is a certified horse show judge and raises purebred Welsh Mountain ponies and Dutch, Holland Lop, and Netherland Dwarf rabbits.

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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.

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Project List:

1. Build a stone boat

2. Build a log jack

3. Build wooden sawhorses

4. Build a beehive

5. Graft a fruit tree

6. Build a goat milking stand

7. Build wooden fencing

8. Build a "no-sag" gate

9. Build a stone crib fencepost

10. Make a weathervane

11. Build a bee house

12. Transplant a tree

13. Build a farmer's market display stand

14. Design a barn quilt

15. Build a small stone wall

16. Paint a barn

17. Extract and bottle honey

18. Build a goat see-saw

19. Build a rabbit hutch

20. Build a rabbit nesting box