The Self Sufficient Backyard: Transform Your Home Into an Off Grid, Profitable Homestead

Do you dream of escaping utility bills, grocery chains, and the constraints of the modern grid? ‘The Self Sufficient Backyard’ is your hands on roadmap to creating a prolific, low maintenance homestead all from your own property. Drawing on 40 years of real world experience living off the grid, authors Ron and Johanna lay out the complete, step by step system that takes you from homeowner (or apartment dweller) to independent homesteader, with actionable projects, illustrated plans and money saving techniques.

What’s Inside

• Optimized Space Planning: Discover how 1,020 sq ft per person, nested in a ¼ acre framework, can support your food needs, generate surplus for profit, and be scaled down for smaller lots.

• Water Sovereignty: Learn how to build your own water collection systems, store runoff, filter and drink what you harvest all without relying on external sources.

• Medicinal Garden Essentials: Cultivate 7 powerful herbs known to have stood the test of time. Includes instructions for harvest, tinctures, remedies used and trusted over 4 decades.

• Hybrid Power Systems & Off Grid Electricity: Full details from batteries and controllers to inverters and wiring. Plus tips for selling back excess power, should you stay connected. 

• Pest & insect bio-control: Build eco friendly systems using bat shelters, birdhouses, and biological design say goodbye to chemical pesticides. 

• Preservation & Food Storage: Root cellars, fermenting, traditional curing learn how to preserve practically everything your homestead produces, even without electricity.

• Profit Generating Micro Enterprises: Beehives, micro greens, high yield orchard setups, and small space greenhouse designs to boost income while staying low effort.

• 100 + Money Saving Tips: On everything from electricity and heating, to tools, water and even house taxes. Strategies you can begin implementing immediately.

Additional Features & Bonuses

• Three FREE digital bonuses (normally priced extra) including an Aquaponic Gardener guide, historical DIY homestead skill sets, and information on finding free or low cost land in the U.S.

• Designed for all ages and abilities little land required, minimal money, no special expertise necessary. Perfect for seniors, apartment dwellers, urban/suburban gardens alike.

• Backed by a 60 day money back guarantee try the program, follow the instructions, and if it’s not what you expected, you can get a full refund. 

Why This Book is Different

This is not a theoretical guide. These are proven systems that Ron and Johanna have built, refined, and lived with for decades. Every plan, every blueprint, every tip comes from trial, success, failure, adaptation and survival. If you want tools, methods, and inspiration grounded in experience, The Self Sufficient Backyard delivers.

Who It’s For

• Aspiring homesteaders or off grid enthusiasts

• Urban/suburban homeowners with limited land

• People seeking greater self-reliance & sustainability

• Those interested in earning income from their yard, garden, bees or micro enterprises

• Anyone looking to reduce bills, live healthier and grow their own food & medicine
  
  

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Disclaimer: 

The information in The Self Sufficient Backyard is provided for educational and informational purposes only and is based on the authors’ personal experiences. Outcomes may vary depending on individual conditions, geographic region, local laws and regulations. Always check local building codes and health/safety standards before implementing any systems, especially those involving electricity, water collection or food preservation. The purchase is subject to the 60 day refund policy; no guarantees are made beyond what is expressly stated by the seller.