Create and Maintain Your Own Smallholding: A Guide to Sustainable Self-Sufficiency

Learn how to set up your own smallholding, grow your own fruit and vegetables, rear chickens, pigs, lambs and other livestock to help you create a sustainable, organic lifestyle. This excellent new guide brings the heart of the land to your table, with advice on where to buy, how to maintain and how to support other local producers. Packed with tips and hints on how to prepare for the whole year, especially in winter. With case studies and examples throughout. Companion title to Keeping Chickens and Keeping Bees. AUTHOR: Liz Wright edited Smallholder magazine for over twenty years and is the author of a number of books, including Choosing and Keeping Ducks and Geese, Keeping Pet Ducks and Self Sufficiency, A Practical Guide to Modern Living and Keeping Chickens. She also appears on the radio regularly. A keen poultry keeper, Liz’s love of chickens started as a child and she now keeps hybrid chickens for eggs, pure breeds for pleasure and also raises table birds. 120 illustrations