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
An accessible and comprehensive guide to starting and running your own smallholding.
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.
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*
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