Successful Smallholding - Planning, Starting and Managing Your Enterprise
Successful Smallholding - Planning, Starting and Managing Your Enterprise
Author(s): J.C. Jeremy Hobson & Phil RantDownshifting has become synonymous with selling up, starting a smallholding and escaping the rat race. Some people are lucky enough to purchase a property large enough to ensure that the whole family is self-sufficient, but for most only enough land will be available to make smallholding a hobby. Accordingly, this book caters for those with a small amount of land and for the lucky minority with a much larger acreage. Many of the books currently available mention only the pleasures of owning a smallholding, this volume adopts a pragmatic approach and discusses the many pitfalls.
Topics covered: · Examines the essential characteristics of a smallholding with reference to location, size, water sources, safety and security, tools and machinery· Discusses the all-year-round vegetable patch, and how to create an orchard and grow fruit· Considers practical poultry keeping and beekeeping· Analyses what is involved in keeping cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, horses, donkeys, rabbits and alpacas· Includes a chapter on barns, buildings, walls, fencing and grassland management· Presents ideas and information on recycling, composting, rainwater storage, and the natural harvest of the hedgerow, fields and woods.
106 colour photographs
Availability: In Print
Publication date: January 2009
Binding: Hardback
Dimensions: Unknown
Weight: Unknown
Extent:160 pp
ISBN: 978 1 84797 075 6
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Useful Contacts and Publications
Index
Introduction
- The Perfect Place
- The All-Year-Round Vegetable Patch
- Creating an Orchard and Growing Fruit
- Practical Poultry
- Bee-Keeping
- Alternative Livestock Operations
- Barns, Buildings, Fields and Fencing
- Waste Nothing, Enjoy it All
Useful Contacts and Publications
Index
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