Polyface Designs: A Comprehensive Construction Guide for Scalable Farming Infrastructure

Fantastic book. Well done.

I built the chicken tractor dolly, rabbit cages, and rabbit tractor. The rabbit tractor performed way better than any other design online. It is easy to move, uses cheaper local sawmill lumber, and the slatted floor prevents overgrazing or ripping up grass. I built the rabbit cages without the dividing wall, and my rabbits enjoy the extra running space in the winter. The dolly was easy to weld, and I use it to move my chicken coop and other equipment.

Important book for the development of good agriculture and explanation of basic construction.

I bought this book because I spend too much time in the "planning/overcomplicating things" phase of any project and never get to the build/complete the project phase. This book gave me a detailed materials list along with easy instructions to follow. In one week I completed the chicken tractor and dolley. I had been PLANNING to build a tractor for over a year prior to buying this book. Also the dolley instructions got me to use a welder which I had never really done before. I followed their designs/instructions but have the sense of pride that I built the items myself! I am going to build the chick brooder next. Long story short: I bought the book, bought the project materials listed in the book, and BUILT the items I needed. I recommend this book if you are like I was and in the "stuck in the planning/ overcomplicating things" phase of your farm projects! You can do it!

What I liked:Informative, yet still an engaging readDirections are easy to follow, even for a noviceLots of pictures to compareWhat I wish might change:This is a dense book packed full of information, yet I’d still like to see it in a more out-on-the-farm friendly format. The page size is good, but could future editions have an option of laminated pages with a lay-flat spiral binding? Or maybe an option for purchasing in a .pdf format, so the user could print out only the section of the book to be used at that time? No big changes, just little thingsOverall, a good investment and I am glad I purchased

Excellent guide for building farm and animal infastructure. It contains everything you need, a supply list, cutting measurements, excellent diagrams and easy to follow instructions and and techniques for building. Thank you Joel and Chris for sharing your knowledge.

Love it. Very walk thru builds.

Is awesome if you are actively farming, researching farming, or just interested in Joel Salatin's structures and methods. It's a full color, step by step manual for building almost any farm structure you could want in a scaleable system. The book itself is sturdily designed and is made so that you can make copies of pages on a normal copy machine if you need to or just carry it out to the barn with you.