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. Topics covered include buying a small farm, preparing outbuilding, and equipping it with machinery and tools; the kitchen garden, protected cultivation, orchards, and pasture; livestock from bees, rabbits, and chickens to goats, cattle, and exotic species; and commercial considerations, regulations, and organic farming.
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For thirteen years Katie Thear and her husband David lived on a smallholding in Essex, where they combined small-scale farming with publishing Country Smallholding magazine. Katie has advised on organic and welfare standards for poultry and livestock, and currently lectures in the UK and USA.
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Our involvement with a smallholding came as a result of various factors. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chinese Painted, Large White, Indian Runner, Light Sussex, South America, Edward Brown, Khaki Campbell, Barred Plymouth Rock, British White, Broad Leys, Cambridge Bronze, Environment Agency, Invasive Sow, New England, White Leghorn New!
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Our involvement with a smallholding came as a result of various factors. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Chinese Painted, Large White, Indian Runner, Light Sussex, South America, Edward Brown, Khaki Campbell, Barred Plymouth Rock, British White, Broad Leys, Cambridge Bronze, Environment Agency, Invasive Sow, New England, White Leghorn New!
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- Department of Agriculture: Forest Service: [Hc]: [1992-93]: House of Commons Papers: [1992-93] by Great Britain on page 162, and Back Matter
- Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by E.F. Schumacher in Front Matter
- Starting With Chickens by Katie Thear in Back Matter
- A Manual of Lambing Techniques by Cicely W. Hill in Back Matter
- Department of the Environment: Town and Country Planning Service: [Hc]: [1995-96]: House of Commons Papers: [1995-96] by J.M. Dowdall in Back Matter
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