National Columnist Kenny Coogan Launches New Homesteading Book

TAMPA, Fla. - July 10, 2018 - PRLog -- A celebration of the homesteading lifestyle, 99½ Homesteading Poems: A Backyard Guide to Raising Creatures, Growing Opportunity, and Cultivating Community speaks the universal truths home gardeners and animal caregivers share.  Homesteading is a growing movement, especially for millennials who want to go "back to the basics" through backyard poultry, urban gardens, preservation, and home cooking.

99½ Homesteading Poems offers inspiration and advice through themed poems covering gardening, DIY projects, building community, raising livestock and over 20 farm-to-fork recipes. Poems are functional yet funny. "If you're sick of the rat race and sick of the grime and want to live intentionally and be on your own time, this book will teach you how to take ownership of your life," Coogan says.

The foreword is by Amy K. Fewell, Founder of Homesteaders of America, author of The Homesteader's Herbal Companion and The Homesteader's Natural Chicken Keeping Handbook. According to Fewell, "Through poetic imagery and whimsical humor, I was taken back to simpler days flipping through each and every page of 99½ Homesteading Poems. Homesteading in real life is beautiful, but Kenny's words made homesteading jump off the page of a book. Kenny has done such an incredible job of capturing all the things we love in just 99 ½ poems!"

Inspired by cowboy poetry, 99 ½ Homesteading Poems, engages, inspires, and empowers homesteaders, urban-farmers and city slickers to start living a sustainable, self-reliant life.

Visit www.kennycoogan.com to preorder 99½ Homesteading Poems: A Backyard Guide to Raising Creatures, Growing Opportunity, and Cultivating Community. The book trailer can be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qra3v9I8z-s



About Kenny Coogan

Kenny Coogan is a freelance columnist and author in Tampa, Florida. He writes about food, flowers, and farms for national and state magazines. He earned his Bachelor of Science in animal behavior from University at Buffalo and is a certified middle and high school agriculture teacher. He shares his one-acre homestead with chickens, ducks, cats, guinea pigs and honey bees. Coogan leads workshops about homesteading, owning chickens, home gardening, animal training, and corporate team building.

To learn more or to request an interview, call 716-425-6915 or visit kennycoogan.com (http://kennycoogan.com/contact/) and Facebook.com/CritterCompanions (https://www.facebook.com/CritterCompanions/).