The Homestead Blueprint

Introductory Self-sufficiency with Homesteading

Audra Haldane

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Honey Shack Media
18 March 2025

Sustainable agriculture; Self-sufficiency; Home & house maintenance; Allotments

Series: The Modern Homesteader's Library

Homesteading isn't just for Instagram influencers with 50 acres. Most beginners quit after wasting $300 on dead seedlings, zoning law headaches, or chickens that stop laying eggs.

No Land? No Experience? No Problem

Turn balconies into urban container gardens with self-watering planters made from old tires. Convert ""dead"" patio corners into herb spirals for small-space permaculture. Fix bad soil in 14 days using free compost hacks.

Your First 30 Days, Done For You

Build a chicken coop from pallets. Preserve 6 months of tomatoes with a DIY solar dehydrator. Slash grocery bills by 40% using foolproof companion planting charts.

Stop Wasting Time (and Money)

Homesteading in strict neighborhoods Set up rainwater harvesting systems using old trash cans ($0 budget). Trade zucchini for fresh milk.

Who Needs This Book?

Apartment dwellers with zero yard space (grow potatoes in a trash can - page 67). Suburban moms tired of wasting $1,500/year on grocery-store herbs that rot in 3 days. DIY flops who've killed fake plants (these blueprints work for all thumbs).

Harvest eggs from your stealthy backyard coop

Stockpile 6 months of food like a squirrel on espresso Bask in smug glory as neighbors beg for your pest-spray recipe

Side effects include kids asking for kale and friends demanding garden tours.

By: Audra Haldane
Imprint: Honey Shack Media
Volume: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9798230963158
Series: The Modern Homesteader's Library
Pages: 234
Publication Date: 18 March 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Audra Haldane is an agricultural engineer and bestselling author revolutionizing modern homesteading. For over a decade, she's transformed barren Appalachian hillsides and Scotland's rain-drenched slopes into thriving, climate-resilient ecosystems-proving self-sufficiency is possible anywhere, whether you're on a 10-acre farm or a studio apartment balcony. Audra's actionable books, The Homestead Blueprint, Homesteading Mastery, and The Food Forest Solution, have empowered thousands to slash grocery bills, build drought-proof gardens, and turn ""dead"" land into income streams. Dubbed the ""Marie Kondo of homesteading"" by readers, she specializes in cutting through the fluff to deliver no-nonsense strategies for raising backyard chickens, designing permaculture food forests, and harnessing off-grid energy. When she's not teaching urban gardeners how to grow mangoes in Minnesota or coaching suburban moms to preserve 6 months of food, Audra travels the globe studying ancient sustainability practices-then translates them into bite-sized steps for modern life. Join 50,000+ readers who've traded takeout for homegrown salsa, HOA battles for stealth chicken coops, and helplessness for true independence. Follow Audra to start your self-sufficiency journey-no acreage, trust fund, or green thumb required.