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Living on One Acre or Less
How to produce all the fruit, veg, meat, fish and eggs your family needs
Living on One Acre or Less
How to produce all the fruit, veg, meat, fish and eggs your family needs
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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Product details
| Published | 17 Mar 2016 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 224 |
| ISBN | 9780857843302 |
| Imprint | Green Books |
| Illustrations | Fully illustrated with colour photographs throughout |
| Dimensions | 255 x 205 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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