Description
Book SynopsisAn 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
Trade ReviewA 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 *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
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
