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 – 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:
How to lay out your plot – including fencing and polytunnels or greenhouses
Managing soil fertility
Growing fruit and vegetables throughout the year
Keeping livestock: poultry, pigs, sheep and goats
Producing fish with aquaponics
Filled with practical advice, this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to be more self-sufficient and live a more sustainable life.
Language
English
Pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Green Books
Release
March 17, 2016
ISBN
0857843303
ISBN 13
9780857843302
Living on One Acre or Less: How to Produce All the Fruit, Vegetables, Meat, Fish and Eggs Your Family Needs
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 – 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:
How to lay out your plot – including fencing and polytunnels or greenhouses
Managing soil fertility
Growing fruit and vegetables throughout the year
Keeping livestock: poultry, pigs, sheep and goats
Producing fish with aquaponics
Filled with practical advice, this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to be more self-sufficient and live a more sustainable life.