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 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.  

Not everybody is blessed with the perfect garden soil. The good news is, you can improve it, but you need to know what kind of soil you have in the first place.

• Take a clean mason jar and fill it halfway with soil from your backyard.
• Add water and shake it for a bit.
• Set the jar aside, and let the contents settle.
• When it does, you should see three layers: sand, silt, and clay.

The best type of soil you could have is called loam, which is 40% sand, 40% silt, and 20% clay. If your soil looks like any of the other jars, don’t worry, because I’ll show you exactly what to do to fix it to grow more food on the same plot from now on.

We will also show how you can live without refrigeration and everything you need to do to preserve your food, from eggs to vegetables, roots, fruits, and meats. Everything you can produce, you can also preserve, just like our forefathers did when there were no refrigerators. We learned how to do this because we had no other option. In the wilderness 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 survived there.

A reliable water source is the life blood of any homestead. We’ve tried a lot of things over the years: we dug wells, had a well drilled for us, pumped water from a nearby lake and set up shallow and deep well hand pumps for water. We even installed a simple hand pump next to our kitchen sink in case the electric pump failed us.

Whatever water source you have on your property, we’ll show you how to make the most out of it and become water independent.

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 can grow these dwarf trees in a tiny space, such as a porch, a sunny windowsill, or even the border of your garden. These trees are very easy to tend, and they also bear fruit faster than regular-sized trees.  

Plants have their own social distancing rules, which most people ignore at their own expense.

You’ll find out why you should never plant cabbage next to cauliflower, what you don’t want near your potatoes or tomatoes, and at least a dozen more garden pairs you’ll want to avoid from now on.  

I will also show you the very best places in America to start a homestead.

This will probably shock you as much as it will help you thrive for decades to come.

If you don’t have an automatic irrigation system, then you might either lose some plants if you forget to water them or spend time needlessly watering them. For this system, you do the work only once, and then it does the job for you every single day for many years to come. I’ll show you the exact system we’ve perfected after years of trial and error to keep our plants optimally well hydrated without using much water at all.

You will also see what survival foods you can grow not only outside but also INSIDE your home, hanging in shopping bags or hidden in plain sight on your kitchen counter. There is no need to panic, but history has taught us time and again that we are just a few meals away from anarchy.

Straw bale gardening is a great way to grow plants in a tiny space and to have a fully compostable garden and a cheap and easy-to-build raised bed alternative.

This is easy on the back as you don’t have to bend over to take care of your plants.

You’ll find a lot of backyard projects that may find their way into your future homestead such as: chicken coop, hoop tunnels, walipini, trellises, raised beds, hay and strawbale gardens, container gardening, windowsill gardening, and a lot more.  

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.  

“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.