Smallholding: A Beginner's Guide to Raising Livestock and Growing Garden Produce - Couverture souple

Starmer, Georgina

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 191045592X ISBN 13 : 9781910455920

Editeur : 5M Books Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

**A clear and sensible guide to the variety of elements that growing and raising your own entails. – Smallholder Magazine**

Anyone can bring parts of smallholding to their everyday lifestyle, whether it's a window box to grow produce, a garden to keep chickens or a field or two for other livestock.

Smallholding: A Beginner's Guide to Raising Livestock and Growing Garden Produce is a practical, comprehensive guide to smallholding for beginners, aimed at people who have access to land, as well as those growing produce in their back garden.

What's covered:

• A comprehensive overview of smallholding for the beginner – making it a practical guide to growing food and farming livestock
• Information about making a profit from the fruits of labour – such as selling surplus home grown produce at the farm gate or farmers' markets
• An A-Z growing guide for fruits and vegetables – with topics such as buying or renting land, soil health, composting, fruit trees, pasture management, stock fencing
• Detailed livestock information – about keeping bees, caring for poultry, goats, llamas and alpacas, pigs, sheep and cattle, and the legal requirements that come with it

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Georgina Starmer is an experienced writer on rural topics, and author of several smallholder articles for 5M websites. She shares her passion for smallholding, sustainability and natural food at her blog, <a href="http://letsgrowwild.uk/"> letsgrowwild.uk</a>

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: 5M Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 191045592X
• ISBN 13: 9781910455920
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: 5m Books Ltd; hello@5mbooks.com; ; Lings; Great Easton; CM6 2HH; Royaume-Uni