The Smallholder's Manual
A The Smallholder's Manual
Author(s): Katie ThearWhether you are an established smallholder, or just starting to take the first tentative steps towards farming at your home, The Smallholder’s Manual contains a wealth of valuable information on all the key aspects of small-scale agriculture.
Illustrated with 200 diagrams and colour photographs, this practical handbook will be welcomed by the small-scale farmer in the twenty-first century.
Availability: In Print
Publication date: 2002
Binding: Hardback
Dimensions: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
Extent:240 pp
ISBN: 978 1 86126 555 5
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- Preface
- Introduction
- The Rural Property
- Buying a Smallholding
- The House
- Outbuildings, Machinery and Tools
- The Land
- Boundaries
- The Kitchen Garden
- Protected Cultivation
- The Orchard
- Pasture and Fodder Crops
- The Livestock
- Bees
- Chickens
- Rabbits
- Waterfowl
- Turkey,Guinea Fowl, Quail, Peacocks and Pheasants
- Pigs
- Sheep
- Goats
- Cattle
- Fleeces
- Exotic species
- Appendix 1. Working in the Countryside
- Appendix 2. Regulations
- Appendix 3. Coping with Pests the Organic Way
- Glossary
- Sources
- Index
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