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The Woodland Homestead

How to Make Your Land More Productive and Live More Self-Sufficiently in the Woods

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By Brett McLeod

Foreword by Philip Ackerman-Leist

Formats and Prices

On Sale
Jun 30, 2015
Page Count
240 pages
Publisher
Storey
ISBN-13
9781612123493

Price

$19.95

Price

$24.95 CAD

Format

  1. ebook

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  1. Trade Paperback $19.95 $24.95 CAD
  2. ebook $11.99 $14.99 CAD

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Put your wooded land to work! This comprehensive manual shows you how to use your woodlands to produce everything from wine and mushrooms to firewood and livestock feed. You’ll learn how to take stock of your woods; use axes, bow saws, chainsaws, and other key tools; create pasture and silvopasture for livestock; prune and coppice trees to make fuel, fodder, and furniture; build living fencing and shelters for animals; grow fruit trees and berries in a woodland orchard; make syrup from birch, walnut, or boxelder trees; and much more. Whether your property is entirely or only partly wooded, this is the guide you need to make the best use of it.

Genre:

  • Nonfiction
  • House & Home
  • Sustainable Living

Brett McLeod is the author of American Axe and The Woodland Homestead and an avid axe collector and restorer. Before becoming a forestry professor and coach of the woodsmen’s team at Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondack Park, he was a professional competitive lumberjack in the Stihl Ironjack Series and competed in the Stihl Timbersports Collegiate Series. He lives in northern New York with his wife and his collection of 200 vintage axes.

  • “When you start reading The Woodland Homestead, you’ll learn how to think about your woodland not only as an ecosystem but also as an ‘ecology of possibilities’.”
    — from the foreword by Philip Ackerman-Leist

    “A friendly and informative book about a subject that intimidates many folks new to homesteading. McLeod makes a walk in the woods a whole new world.”
    — Jenna Woginrich, author of One-Woman Farm, Barnheart, and Chick Days

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Brett McLeod

About the Author

Brett McLeod is the author of American Axe and The Woodland Homestead and an avid axe collector and restorer. Before becoming a forestry professor and coach of the woodsmen’s team at Paul Smith’s College in the Adirondack Park, he was a professional competitive lumberjack in the Stihl Ironjack Series and competed in the Stihl Timbersports Collegiate Series. He lives in northern New York with his wife and his collection of 200 vintage axes.

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