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Living on One Acre or Less

How to Produce All the Fruit, Vegetables, Meat, Fish and Eggs Your Family Needs

Sally Morgan
This practical guide explains how to lay out a field, paddock, smallholding or garden to produce enough food to feed a family all year. It offers advice on preparing the soil, growing fruit and vegetables, planting a small orchard, raising poultry and fish (using aquaponics) in a confined space and, on larger plots, keeping goats, sheep and pigs.
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Product information:
  • Publisher: Green
  • Year: 2021
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240pp
  • Illustrated: Yes
  • Dimensions: 253x205mm
  • ISBN: 9780857843302
  • Condition: New
  • Weight: 0.9kg
Product code:
545273
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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.
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