The Half-Acre Homestead : 46 Years of Building and Gardening - Lloyd Kahn

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The Half-Acre Homestead

46 Years of Building and Gardening

By: Lloyd Kahn, Lesley Creed

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Paperback | 12 May 2020

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168 Pages

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21.6 x 21.9 x 1.5

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Lloyd, the former shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog, has published seven books on owner building, showcasing hundreds of builders, and this is his first book on his own work.

Starting with a vacant half-acre piece of land, they built their own home, created a garden with vegetables and fruit, and describe raising chickens, bees, and goats. The book also covers cooking, foraging, fishing, crafts, birds, butterflies, and tools.

Their main theme is that this was all done by hand.

They have never paid rent nor have they ever had a mortgage.

There are over 500 photos illustrating all the above facets of their lives and clear explanations of building skylights, maintaining a septic system, building greenhouses and raised vegetable beds. There is a section on unique kitchen tools, as well as advice on useful tools used in construction.

About the Author

Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands.

He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include Shelter, Shelter II (1978), Home Work (2004), Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008), Tiny Homes (2012), and Tiny Homes on the Move (2014).

Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers.

Industry Reviews

"I just inhaled your book, reading it cover to cover in one sitting. It's all that I hoped it would be. Now my favorite book of yours...."
-Kevin Kelly, Wired

"Warning: Reading the book may lead to pulling up stakes and heading into the hills to claim your own half-acre homestead."
-Patrick Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle

"The King of D.I.Y. Dwellings-Before cabin porn and van life were hashtags on Instagram, before tiny houses were a movement, Mr. Kahn, now 84, was the indefatigable champion of their funky, D.I.Y. antecedents.... A memoir of sorts of this hard-won idyll, [The Half-Acre Homestead] is also a love letter to Ms. Creed, a skilled artisan and gardener whose glorious handiwork is vividly portrayed."
-Penelope Green, The New York Times

"The book is absolutely wonderful... [a] magnificent one-of-a-kind gift to us all."
-Peter Nabokov, professor at UCLA

"The whole thing is about a harmony in life that few achieve but most desire...."
-Jack Fulton, photographer

"I love the new book. It is beautiful and useful.... You've so well captured not only how your homestead looks but also its soul and spirit."
-Charlotte Mayerson, former senior editor, Random House

"It's great!"
-Bill Steen, co-author of The Strawbale House

"What a treasure!"
-Charlie Winton, musician/publisher

"Excellent photos."
-Drew Langsner, author of Country Woodcraft

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