Fencing, Gates, and Homestead Infrastructure

Strong fences. Solid gates. A homestead that works. Fencing, Gates, and Homestead Infrastructure is a practical beginner's guide to planning, building, and maintaining the physical systems that make a small homestead usable. From perimeter fences and paddock divisions to gates, lanes, shelters, drainage, heavy-use areas, and simple concrete work, this book explains what each piece must do before you spend money or set a post. Inside, you'll learn how to read your land, plan fence lines, choose woven wire, high-tensile, electric, barbed, board, rail, portable, and temporary fencing, match fences to cattle, horses, sheep, goats, pigs, poultry, and predator pressure, estimate materials, build corners and braces, stretch wire safely, set posts, hang gates that keep working, troubleshoot electric fence, control mud, handle drainage, and maintain the whole system over time. The focus is practical, honest, and beginner-friendly: build the lines, shelters, and access that hold everything together.