Description
The essential beginner's manual on living a greener, healthier, and more self-sufficient lifestyle.
Absolutely all you need to know to provide you and your family with homegrown food throughout the year. Alison Candlin offers easy-to-follow advice on planning, establishing, and maintaining a small-acre farm, an allotment, or a backyard garden. She also includes essential tips for selecting, housing, and looking after chickens, goats, pigs, bees, and other animals. Learn how to collect and recycle water, compost your leftover scraps, and generate renewable energy for your own home in order to save money and minimize your impact on the environment. With step-by-step instructions and more than 350 photographs and charming illustrations, this book is a practical and comprehensive guide to living off the land.
Author: Alison Candlin
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Published: 03/02/2021
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.25lbs
Size: 9.30h x 7.80w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9781423656784
ISBN10: 1423656784
BISAC Categories:
- House & Home | Sustainable Living
- Gardening | Reference
- Gardening | Techniques
About the Author
Alison Candlin lives with her family in rural Wiltshire, England, where she tends her own kitchen garden. She is an experienced writer and editor, with credits in numerous cookery and gardening books, including Food from your Garden and Plant it, Grow it, Eat it!