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

by Morgan, Sally

• ISBN13: 9780857843302
• ISBN10: 0857843303
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-03-17
• Publisher: Green Books

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Sally Morgan is an avid gardener, smallholder and writer. Fascinated by the natural world from an early age, she went to Cambridge University to read Natural Sciences. She then 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 homesteader for more than 20 years, she now owns a small organic farm in Somerset, UK, where she has set up a demonstration homestead and farm school which runs courses.

Table of Contents

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

Appendix: Livestock regulations & good practice

Resources

Index