Living on One Acre or Less: How to produce all the fruit, veg, meat, fish and eggs your family needs

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Sally Morgan

Living on One Acre or Less

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

Sally Morgan

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Green Books
17 March 2016

Sustainable agriculture; Animal husbandry; Smallholdings; Self-sufficiency; Gardening: growing fruit & vegetables

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.

By: Sally Morgan
Imprint: Green Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 255mm, Width: 205mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 816g
ISBN: 9780857843302
ISBN 10: 0857843303
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 17 March 2016
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.

Reviews for Living on One Acre or Less: How to produce all the fruit, veg, meat, fish and eggs your family needs

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 *