Sally Morgan

Living on One Acre or Less (eBook, ePUB)

How to produce all the fruit, veg, meat, fish and eggs your family needs

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

You don't need a huge parcel of land to start your own mini-farm and live more self-sufficiently. With an acre, or even a half-acre, you can juggle a job, family, and still grow fruit and veg and even have some chickens, pigs or sheep. Sally Morgan takes the reader through the basics of a starting your own smallholding, including planning and setting up, growing your own fruit and vegetables, keeping chickens, pigs and sheep - all while making use of sustainable and organic principles. This inspirational book is perfect for anyone who aspires to take control of their food supply, or who wants to do more with the land they've got.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857843319
• Artikelnr.: 44724028

Autorenporträt

Sally Morgan is an avid gardener, smallholder and writer. She taught biology for a few years before turning to photography and writing - writing over 200 non-fiction titles for children. Currently, she is editor of Organic Farming Magazine and blogs on her website. A smallholder for more than 20 years, she now owns a small organic farm in Somerset, where she has set up a demonstration homestead and farm school which runs courses.

Inhaltsangabe

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