The Smallholder's Manual

Authors: Katie Thear
Whether 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

Book Contents

• 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