How long does it take to read The Backyard Homestead?
Carleen Madigan
The Backyard Homestead by Carleen Madigan takes about 6 hours 44 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 44 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2009. 367 pages, about 100,925 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 13 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 44 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 12 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From a Quarter of An Acre, You Can Harvest: 1400 Eggs 50 Pounds of Wheat 60 Pounds of Fruit 2000 Pounds of Vegetables 280 Pounds of Pork 75 Pounds of Nuts The Indispensable Guide to Food Self-Sufficiency Learn How To: -milk a goat -prime a fruit tree -dry herbs -make dandelion wine -bake whole-grain bread -tap a maple tree -make fresh mozzarella -brew beer -mill grains for flour -save seeds for next season, and a whole lot more Put Your Backyard To Work Enjoy fresher, organic, better-tasting food all the time. The solution is as close as your own backyard. Grow the vegetables and fruits your family loves, keep bees, raise chickens, goats, or even a cow. The Backyard Homestead shows you how it's done. And when the harvest is in, you'll learn how to cook, preserve, cure, brew, or pickle the fruits of your labor.
Subjects: Food, Preservation, Kitchen gardens, Meat animals, Vegetable gardening, Long Now Manual for Civilization
