Author: Maurice G. Kains
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486316882
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
This classic of the back-to-the-land movement is packed with solid, timeless information. Written by a renowned horticulturist, it has taught generations how to make their land self-sufficient. 95 figures.
We Wanted a Farm
Author: Maurice G. Kains
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486316378
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In this engaging and informative memoir, the author of the classic Five Acres and Independence relates his family's experiences in realizing a dream of establishing and maintaining their own small farm.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486316378
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
In this engaging and informative memoir, the author of the classic Five Acres and Independence relates his family's experiences in realizing a dream of establishing and maintaining their own small farm.
Five Acres and Independence
Author: M. G. Kains
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365165612
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This classic bestseller became that way because of it's very practical and honest appraisal of how a person can get from crowded, noisy, dangerous city life to a peaceful, calm, satisfaction-filled lifestyle in a rural or even suburban setting. This is the streamlined edition, which is designed to be more affordable and take up less space in your pocket or backpack. Everyone who has ever dreamed of getting back to the soil will enjoy Maurice G. Kains' practical and easy-to-understand descriptions of what small-scale farming means. A perpetual classic, readers of Five Acres and Independence have moved closer to the fulfillment of their dreams of independence on a small farm. Whether it all starts with some flowerboxes outside your apartment window, a small back yard in a subdivision, or your few acres (even a vacant lot next door or down the street) you can start today with getting healthier food for you and your family, plus the satisfaction of being self-sufficient.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365165612
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This classic bestseller became that way because of it's very practical and honest appraisal of how a person can get from crowded, noisy, dangerous city life to a peaceful, calm, satisfaction-filled lifestyle in a rural or even suburban setting. This is the streamlined edition, which is designed to be more affordable and take up less space in your pocket or backpack. Everyone who has ever dreamed of getting back to the soil will enjoy Maurice G. Kains' practical and easy-to-understand descriptions of what small-scale farming means. A perpetual classic, readers of Five Acres and Independence have moved closer to the fulfillment of their dreams of independence on a small farm. Whether it all starts with some flowerboxes outside your apartment window, a small back yard in a subdivision, or your few acres (even a vacant lot next door or down the street) you can start today with getting healthier food for you and your family, plus the satisfaction of being self-sufficient.
Portrait of a Farm Family
Author: Raymond Bial
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0395699363
Category : Dairy farming
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Presents a fourth-generation farm family in Illinois, describing their work and other activities, and explaining why it's becoming increasingly hard for a family farm to survive.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0395699363
Category : Dairy farming
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Presents a fourth-generation farm family in Illinois, describing their work and other activities, and explaining why it's becoming increasingly hard for a family farm to survive.
Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule
Author: Harriette Gillem Robinet
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439136238
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Winner of the 1999 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A CBC Notable Children’s Book in the Field of Social Studies Two recently freed, formerly enslaved brothers work to protect the new life they’ve built during the Reconstruction after the Civil War in this vibrant, illustrated middle grade novel. Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself. Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the found family they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth, their own farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty to eat. But the notorious night riders have plans to take it away, threatening to tear the beautiful freedom that the two boys are enjoying for the first time in their young lives.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439136238
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Winner of the 1999 Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction A CBC Notable Children’s Book in the Field of Social Studies Two recently freed, formerly enslaved brothers work to protect the new life they’ve built during the Reconstruction after the Civil War in this vibrant, illustrated middle grade novel. Maybe nobody gave freedom, and nobody could take it away like they could take away a family farm. Maybe freedom was something you claimed for yourself. Like other ex-slaves, Pascal and his older brother Gideon have been promised forty acres and maybe a mule. With the found family they have built along the way, they claim a place of their own. Green Gloryland is the most wonderful place on earth, their own farm with a healthy cotton crop and plenty to eat. But the notorious night riders have plans to take it away, threatening to tear the beautiful freedom that the two boys are enjoying for the first time in their young lives.
Farming for Self-sufficiency
Author: J. Seymour
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Land. Horse. Cow. Dairy. Pig. Bacon. Poultry, Sheep, Goat, Rabbit, Pigeon. Meat. Grass. Wheat and Bread. Barley, Beer. Other field crops. Garden crops. Fruit and nuts. Storage of vegetables. Fish. Bees, Wild Food, Wine, Wood, Smoke-house, Seaweed.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Land. Horse. Cow. Dairy. Pig. Bacon. Poultry, Sheep, Goat, Rabbit, Pigeon. Meat. Grass. Wheat and Bread. Barley, Beer. Other field crops. Garden crops. Fruit and nuts. Storage of vegetables. Fish. Bees, Wild Food, Wine, Wood, Smoke-house, Seaweed.