A good, comprehensive, all-round guide for anyone who aspires to the good life.
Kate Humble, TV presenter and smallholding owner
The book is rich with content and full of wonderful inspiration. I can’t wait to get out into my small garden, to help my family move towards self-reliance.
Kate Blincoe, nature journalist and author of The No-Nonsense Guide to Green Parenting
An accessible and comprehensive guide, filled with everything you need to set up your own mini-farm and live more self-sufficiently.
With the help of this handy book, you can grow all the fruit and vegetables your family needs, raise animals for meat and eggs, keep fish and bees, and even produce firewood on a plot of land of just one acre or less – all alongside your work and family life.
Whether you have a garden, a paddock or perhaps the corner of a field, Sally Morgan guides you through various useful topics, including growing fruit and vegetables throughout the year, producing fish with aquaponics, and keeping livestock – poultry, pigs, sheep and goats. There is also helpful information on how to layout your plot, including fencing, poly tunnels or greenhouses, and tips on managing soil fertility. This updated edition also includes a chapter on coping with extreme weather conditions.
Filled with practical advice, Living on One Acre or Less is essential reading for anyone who aspires to take control of their food supply or who wants to do more with the land they've got.
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This book will give you everything you need to set-up your own mini-farm, allowing you to live more self-sufficiently.
Introduction
Part One: Design & groundwork
1. Planning your plot
2. Soil matters
3. Soil fertility & crop rotations
Part Two: Growing produce
4. The vegetable & flower garden
5. An abundance of fruit
6. Tree crops & forest gardens
Part Three: Keeping livestock
7. Poultry for eggs & meat
8. Pigs for meat
9. Including sheep or goats
10. Aquaponics
11. Beekeeping
12. Coping with extreme weather
Appendix: Livestock regulations & good practice
Resources
Index
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An accessible and comprehensive guide to starting and running your own smallholding.
An accessible and comprehensive guide to starting and running your own smallholding, perfect for anyone who is interested in self-sufficiency or starting their own micro-farm.
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780857843302
Publisert
2016-03-17
Utgiver
Vendor
Green Books
Høyde
255 mm
Bredde
205 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224
Forfatter