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Author: Maurice G. Kains
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 0486316882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis classic of the back-to-the-land movement is packed with solid, timeless information. Written by a renowned horticulturist, it has taught generations how to make their land self-sufficient. 95 figures.
Author: Maurice G. Kains
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-06-03
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0486316378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this engaging and informative memoir, the author of the classic Five Acres and Independence relates his family's experiences in realizing a dream of establishing and maintaining their own small farm.
Author: Ferdinand Mount
Publisher: London : Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sarah Beth Aubrey
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Published: 2008-01-16
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 1603429190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRunning your own small farm is demanding enough, but making it profitable presents a host of further challenges. In this business-savvy guide to farming on a small scale, Sarah Aubrey covers everything from financial plans and advertising budgets to web design and food service wholesalers. Learn how to isolate your target audience and craft artisanal products that will delight and amaze customers. With a solid business strategy in place, you can confidently turn your passion into a productive and profitable venture.
Author: L. R. Miller
Publisher: Small Farmer's Journal
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSmall Farmer's Journal is after a new view of involvement, ownership, craftsmanship, and the understandable/mysterious seeds of magic. They also seek the craft of good farming and the faith that comes of thankful farming. Small Farmer's Journal wants to be defenders and agents of and for good farming and they realize that they are a small endeavor with small consequences.This large, illustrated book offers some uniquely modern and helpful information geared toward assisting people to land a new small farm operation of their own. Beginning with the what fors and where fors, and walking carefully through the pitfalls and challenges of the looking and buying process, this book could save the prospective farm buyer time, money, and headache.
Author: Harriette Gillem Robinet
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-02-22
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 1439136238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the 1999 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A CBC Notable Children’s Book in the Field of Social Studies Two recently freed, formerly enslaved brothers work to protect the new life they’ve built during the Reconstruction after the Civil War in this vibrant, illustrated middle grade novel. Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself. Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the found family they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth, their own farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty to eat. But the notorious night riders have plans to take it away, threatening to tear the beautiful freedom that the two boys are enjoying for the first time in their young lives.
Author: Booker T. Whatley
Publisher: Rodale Books
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 196
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edmund Morris
Publisher: University of Michigan Library
Published: 1866
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: U. S. Department of Agriculture
Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)
Published: 2001-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781589633353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, Living on a Few Acres, is intended as a practical guide for those who make the journey back to the countryside and for some of your who are already there. It is mainly for those who intend not to gain their principal income from the land, but rather to have a job in town or live on a pension or some other source of income.Living on a Few Acres describes both the pitfalls and the satisfactions of country life. There are plenty of both. And there is nothing quite like country living.
Author: Josh Volk
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Published: 2017-02-07
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1612125948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSmall is beautiful, and these 15 real farm plans show that small-scale farmers can have big-time success. Compact Farms is an illustrated guide for anyone dreaming of starting, expanding, or perfecting a profitable farming enterprise on five acres or less. The farm plans explain how to harness an area’s water supply, orientation, and geography in order to maximize efficiency and productivity while minimizing effort. Profiles of well-known farmers such as Eliot Coleman and Jean-Martin Fortier show that farming on a small scale in any region, in both urban and rural settings, can provide enough income to turn the endeavor from hobby to career. These real-life plans and down-and-dirty advice will equip you with everything you need to actually realize your farm dreams.
