Living Off the Land: Essential Guide to Organic Living: Packed Witih Information on Keeping Poultry, Waterfowl, Pigs, Goats, Bees and Allotments - Hardcover

Charlotte Jarvis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1861472765 ISBN 13: 9781861472762

Publisher: Hermes House, 2009

Synopsis

Realise your dreams of growing your own food starting with just a windowsill or back yard. Fresh eggs from your own hens is a reality for anyone with a back garden. Why not then take on an allotment or paddock for larger farm animals? Learn how to incubate eggs, raise chicks and ducklings, market your produce locally, work with nature and rear orphan lamb It s possible to produce food from your own backyard whatever the size available. Learn to be a beekeeper, a poultry owner and how to provide vegetables for the table. For those with a little more land, progress to pigs, sheep, goats and even alcapas. Living off the Land will point you in the right direction; from the first steps in your garden to how to get an allotment, from keeping laying hens to turkeys, ducks to donkeys and even how to market your surplus produce. Take control of your food and produce your own using whatever land you have to its best advantage. Whatever size your plot, join the nation s smallholders and live the good life.

About this title

About the Author:

Charlotte Jarvis has always been interested in farming, and after growing up in the city she worked for a grain and feed merchant in the country for a number of years. Currently her smallholding consists of bees (a steep learning curve), hybrid and pure bred hens, ducks and ponies, plus a large garden and a productive but small greenhouse.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hermes House
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1861472765
• ISBN 13: 9781861472762
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 156