Your Self-Sufficient Backyard Homestead Garden

Grow More Food with Your Pollinator Garden

By: Karen Shepley

Narrated by: Dr. Michelle Carabache

Are you fed up with poor-quality, pesticide-laced, and overpriced fruits and vegetables at your supermarket? It’s time to start growing your own sustainable food garden!

The catastrophes of climate change are upon us. We see floods, droughts, and wildfires on the news regularly.

But have you ever stopped to think about the impact of these events on our food supply?

Due to climate change, the number of bees and butterflies in Europe is declining rapidly. The US alone has lost 45.5 percent of its honeybee colonies from April 2020 to April 2021, according to a survey conducted by the nonprofit Bee Informed Partnership (BIP).

Here’s why these numbers are so alarming: 75 percent of global crops rely on animal pollination.

The UN World Food Program reports 957 million people don’t have enough food. Unfortunately, without pollinators, this is only going to get worse.

To compensate for the lack of pollinators, companies are using more and more chemicals to grow food, a practice that can result in serious health consequences.

What if there was a way to grow nutritious fruits and vegetables right from your own backyard garden, attract native pollinators, and encourage them to thrive, resulting in more food in your kitchen?

And what if we told you that it was far easier than you thought? Think of it as your own organic edible plants in your backyard garden landscape.

©2022 Karen Shepley (P)2022 Karen Shepley

I need to eat healthy food – thank you very much!

Our, food (and us), is at risk! It needs to be nutritious, so we don’t fall prey to ill health. In some cases, food contains needed antioxidants. Everything has its use, including vital insects and bugs. Let’s stop a disaster before it happens and adopt a sustainable system. Karen Shepley’s Homestead garden is an exhaustive book about everything to get you started on this journey. It is highly recommended.

An Excellent Book! Don’t Hesitate!!!

I love a book about pollinators! I’ve raised bees in the past and so they are close to my heart. This book teaches you how to maximize your yield by natural means, pollinators, and appropriate companion gardening. It’s a great resource that I will go back to over and over!

The narration was also excellent. Very engaging and captivating. Well done! Thank you Karen for this excellent book. Looking forward to your next book!

Excellent audiobook!

I have a feeling this is going to be a very popular audiobook! With prices at the grocery store going through the roof, My fiance and I wanted to learn how to grow our own veggies. This is a great audiobook to learn from. Lots of good info and very detailed oriented. Highly recommend!

Easy to Understand and Straightforward!

I really enjoyed this book. I am new to gardening, having grown my first garden in 2021. I learned a lot from that experience, but wanted to up my game and get some additional pointers on what I could do differently this time around to have an even more successful garden.

Lots of information is given in an easy to understand format with great examples included. Fertilizer usage was a favorite topic of mine, as there are so many kinds that it gets confusing and overwhelming. I am already planning my compost pile to be started soon.

I Learned So Much and was Captivated

This was a great read../ or rather a great listen. The narrators tone was easy to listen to and kept you engaged. But also, the content was so thoughtful and thought out! I learned facts about pollinators I never knew and more about companion planting! I just realized I should not have planted my tomato plant so close to my potatoes!

You will really enjoy this audiobook. It’s wonderful. You will learn and be entertained at the same time.

Incredible Amount of Detail

This book educated me so much about pollinators. I never would’ve guessed some of the mammals that were listed as pollinators! And this information is great no matter where you are in the world! Karen goes into detail chapter by chapter by region of what kind of plants and vegetation would survive in your environment. If we want to keep the planet and environment healthy we need books like this and people like Karen to spread the word. Also I love how she gave information about which vegetables to plant with others for a healthy garden. PHENOMENAL JOB!!

Incredible Book

There is so much to learn here that you won't be able to have all this precious information once. I must listen to it repeatedly and highly recommend this book to anyone. I humble say perfect in every way.

Creating hearty food

This book for sure will help any person creat a wonderful garden. The book talks about the whole process from start to finish. the extra website are very helpful when looking for supplies. The narrator made it a little hard to keep focus of the content.

Great listen!!

I followed along in my garden when listening to the book. I did not think I could do it but I was able to understand while I was planting and watching the pollinators. Listening to the book and watching insects made more sense to me. Definitely worth the purchase

Made Me Abundant!

Before starting I was a complete mess until I listened to this. My garden was inconsistent and had no structure, but I'm glad to say now that my home garden is flowing healthy with everything it needs. I avoided some mistakes and got some tips and tricks that people don't really talk about when it comes to home gardening