Setting Up a Homestead
(Page 4 of 4)
March/April 1970
By the Mother Earth News editors
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1.) Every bit of land should be used advantageously.
2.) Garden rows should be of good length for easy cultivation; and run North and South for equal sunlight.
3.) Pasture should be fenced into plots for rotation. Pasture gates should be wide enough for entry for haying and plowing equipment.
4.) Vegetable garden should be han dy to kitchen.
5.) Lawn and shrubbery arranged attractively, yet easily cared for.
6.) Child's play area screened from street and located so it can be watched from the house.
7.) Compost heap should be placed between barn and garden.
8.) Trees should be spaced so as not to be crowded at maturity.
9.) Shower, bath, dressing room should be accessible from outside.
10.) Barn should be to lee of house; close enough to make supervision of livestock easy.
11.) Adequate closet and storage space in house.
12.) Space for good home workshop.
13.) Housing for garden tools, wheelbarrow, lawnmower, small tractor.
14.) A cold storage room for vege tables and canned goods.
15.) Fencing so arranged that livestock may be turned loose from the barn.
17.) Space for home freezer, laundry,fireplace wood.
18.) Orchard should not shade garden.
This will give you an idea of some of the things that you ought to think about when planning a homestead.
Suggested Reading:
Layout for a Productive Homestead by Milton Wend, John H.
Whitney, R. A., & Ed Robinson; $1.50.
How to Have a Good Lawn, 35¢
48 Rapid Growing Shade Trees, 35¢ How to Build a Stone Wall, 35 ¢
Nut Trees for Northern Homesteads, 35¢
If you're thinking of having a place of your own - or you want to
lay your present place out more efficiently send for "Layout for a
Productive Homestead" from which this small reproduction was
made.
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