Includes index.

Chapter 1 Farm 11 -- Photosynthesis 101 -- Extractive Farming -- Regenerative Farming on the Independent Farmstead -- Chapter 2 Land 23 -- Where Do You Want to Be? -- What Qualities Are Necessary? -- Durable Tenure, Regenerative Agriculture, and the Next Right Thing -- Chapter 3 Water 41 -- Finding Water Pressurized Water-City and Well -- Surface Water-Ponds, Streams, Rivers, and Lakes -- Rainwater and Runoff-Roofs, Foundation, and Pavement -- Nonelectric Pumps-Nose, Sling, and Ram -- Developed Water Sources-Springs and Seeps -- Stock Watering Systems -- Water in the Pasture-Pumps, Hoses, and Tanks -- Record Keeping -- Chapter 4 Grass 71 -- Grass, Pasture, Forage -- Elements of a Good Paddock -- Estimating Forage -- Grazing with the Seasons -- Pasture Management -- Pasture Grasses -- Record Keeping -- Chapter 5 Fence 97 -- Intensive Grazing -- Electrical Fences -- Fencing Equipment-Posts, Reels, Chargers, and More -- Bringing the Charge to the Fence -- Setting Up Fence -- Points of Paddock Design -- Moving Livestock-Making Paddock Shifts -- Chapter 6 Ruminants 123 -- Choosing a Ruminant -- Goats-Caprine Grazers -- Sheep-Ovine Grazers -- Cows-Bovine Grazers -- Buying a Ruminant -- Chapter 7 Dairy 151 -- In the Beginning-halving, Lambing, and Kidding -- Milking a New Mother at the Sow's Ear -- Milking Routines Calves -- Feeding and Weaning Breeding -- Health -- Chapter 8 Poultry 181 -- Chickens -- Shelter and Fence -- Hen Housing -- Feeds and Feeders -- How Many Birds Do I Need? -- Breeds -- Reproduction -- Broilers -- Turkeys, Peacocks, and Guineas -- Ducks and Geese -- Chapter 9 Pig 207 -- Piggy Banks -- Pig Husbandry -- Keeping It All Together-Shelter and Fence -- Planning the Year-Piglet to Pork Chop -- Chapter 10 Milk, Meat, and Manure-The Solar Harvest 235 -- Dairy -- Meat and Butchering -- Manure -- Chapter 11 Independent Farmstead 289 -- Farm Time -- People Failure -- Independence, Interdependence -- Seasonal Order... and Disorder -- Farm Education -- Homestead Assessments -- Dinner -- Tools Belonging.