First thing you’ll find out is that all you need to be self sufficient in terms of food are just 1,020 square feet of land per person, if you follow the methods we developed. That’s less than 10% of our entire ¼ acre parcel you can see in our sketch.

We developed this plan on quarter of an acre for a family of 4 to be totally self-sufficient, and have goods to sell and sustain a healthy profit year round. But we created it in such a way that it is easy to downsize if you have less land or fewer family members. 

Then we go into minute details for each section.  

I’ll also show you how to make the simplest water collection system and how you can easily implement it on your own homestead.  

We don’t pay for irrigation water, as we collect and store every gallon we need in these inexpensive tanks.

We can also filter and drink it.

You will also discover the 7 plants you really need to have in a medicinal garden and not only how to care for them, but how to turn them into tinctures and other remedies. For the last 40 years we’ve been using these herbs, so how would you feel instead of paying for natural remedies or supplements to just pick them up from your backyard?

I’m not talking about folk remedies here, I’m talking about real plants that we found out over the last 4 decades that are very effective, and not something that you read on the internet.

When the plane took off from our homestead in Northern Saskatchewan and became a spec in the sky, the closest pharmacy was 100 miles away with no roads to get there. We would place our lives in the hands of these 7 plants and I think they should be in the backyards of every American concerned about their health.  

You will also discover in minute detail how to set up one of the most reliable cost-effective hybrid electricity system for your house. We’ll show you what batteries to get for storage, what type of controller, cables, inverter… everything you need and how to set them up for maximum efficiency.

For the last 40 years, a wire from the power grid has never been connected to a home in which we’ve lived. 

Using this inexpensive hybrid system we developed and perfected over the years, you’ll have an ultra-reliable source of power with no worries of any future price increases, outages from downed wires or deliberate attacks to the grid. Or, you can opt to sell the excess power back to the utility company if you choose to remain connected to the grid, making money off them instead of the other way around.  

You will also find out how to make an automated 24-hour bio insect control system. Instead of using pesticides, you can grow all your produce organically by making a small swallow or bluebird house and a bat shelter.  

They’ll take turns getting rid of the pests for you.

A bat can eat an astonishing 4,000 insects a night and a bluebird around 1000 bugs a day including cabbage worms, whiteflies, aphids, earwigs, grasshoppers, cucumber, various beetles and grubs! 

Also their appetite for mosquitoes certainly makes a backyard more comfortable.

We will show you how we made different root cellars and how you can easily add whichever you want to your homestead. 

From full sized, and under the house root cellars to small barrel or trash can root cellars, there’s surely something here for you. 

In the Self-Sufficient Backyard, we cover homestead water supply in depth because the life blood of any homestead is a reliable water source.

We’ve tried a lot of things over the years: we dug wells, had a well drilled, pumped water from a lake and set up shallow and deep well hand pumps for water.

We even installed a simple hand pump next to our kitchen sink for convenience if the electric pump failed us. 

Whatever water source you choose for your property, you will find it here with pictures and guidance to set it up. If your only source of water is the tap water from the public utility company, you are not independent. And you are paying for it.  

We’ll also show you a simple and ingenious solution that you can apply in your house to have pressurized hot water. 

This system heats the water whenever we cook or heat the house, so we don't pay extra to get hot water and neither should you.

You’ll also discover how to set up beehives that will produce both delicious honey and help pollinate your trees and plants. A modification to the traditional hive is to make easy and handy beehives in jars. 

You will also discover our secrets to winter gardening. For example, we’re growing these highly nutritious microgreens inside the house during winter. 

You can use this method to grow them in the basement creating your microclimate there if you are low on space. Just hang an artificial light overhead.  

What makes them even more valuable is the fact that they only need 2 weeks to grow to the first cut. There will be many more to follow. This is one of the highest yields per square foot in a year. 

Besides having four times higher concentration of nutrients than mature plants they are in high demand and usually sell very well. This is one of the easiest crops to grow and turn into money in our opinion.  

You will also find out how to power up a backyard perpetual compost garden using only the daily kitchen scraps you throw away. 

When you water the plants or when it rains, both the water and the compost nutrients you place in the tower will flow outwards creating living soil thus feeding the plants. That’s exactly the kind of soil you need for record breaking harvests.

You will find out everything you need to know about raising chickens, from egg to your dinner table. Chickens “done right” really are the most cost-effective protein source for any homesteader. We’ll show you simple tricks we discovered to make your each hen lay more than 300 eggs per year.

For example, one of the tricks we’ve learned before butchering is the night before to withhold all food from our chickens. There’s no need to waste the feed and we want to clean out their digestive systems. Allow them plenty of water though. This will make the whole process a lot easier.  

You will also discover how to set up a successful orchard that needs almost no maintenance and under the shade of which you can expect to sit sooner than you think. 

The orchard will provide you with most of the fruits you need and will probably do so for your kids and family long after you move to a better place.

You will also learn all the techniques and methods we discovered in the last 40 years about harvesting the best seeds and about the most efficient way to preserve them for the next year. You’ll also discover simple tricks like why fermenting the seeds could be a really good idea.

You’ll also discover the ingenious “curing” trick that can preserve your vegetables texture and flavor before placing them in the freezer.

We will also show you everything we do to preserve our food: from eggs to vegetables, roots, fruits, meats… everything we produce, we preserve. 

We had no other option. In the long winters of Saskatchewan, we had nowhere to go to buy groceries and supplies. If we didn’t preserve the things we produced, we wouldn’t have thrived there.

“The Self-Sufficient Backyard” is our life and everything we’ve personally gone through, so we're happy to stand behind it 100%. You have 60 full days to go through our program and if there’s anything you don’t like about it, Johanna and I will be more than happy to refund your purchase in full.