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Maximizing Your Mini Farm

Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
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Maximizing Your Mini Farm by Brett L. Markham is a guide aimed at helping readers efficiently utilise limited space to cultivate a productive mini farm. The book covers a range of practical strategies, such as intensive vegetable gardening, keeping small animals, and sustainable farming techniques, making it ideal for those looking to embrace a self-sufficient, eco-friendly lifestyle.
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You might enjoy this book if you're interested in sustainable living, gardening, and making the most out of small spaces. It offers practical advice on growing your own food and managing a mini farm efficiently. Ideal for those passionate about self-sufficiency and nature.

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Maximizing Your Mini Farm

Describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family's food on just a quarter acre - and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require. The author gives you tips, tricks, and advice on how to make the most of your mini farm.

The essential guide to producing food for your family and earning money from a small plot of land.

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Mini farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family's food on just a quarter acre—and earn £10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require.

Now expanding exponentially on his bestselling Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre, Brett Markham gives you tips, tricks, and planning advice on how to make the most of your mini farm. New topics include:

  • Soil and Fertility Tools and Techniques
  • Planting Guides and Seeders
  • Easy Trellising
  • Weed Control Techniques
  • Greater Food Self-Sufficiency
  • Making Your Own Country Wines
  • Making Your Own Vinegars
  • Making Cheese at Home
  • Cooking for Self-Sufficiency

Keep your costs down and production high with this complete guide to maximizing your mini farm—whether it's a rooftop urban garden, a suburban backyard, or a more substantial plot of land. Materials, tools, and techniques are detailed with tables, diagrams, and 200 colour illustrations and author photographs.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781616086107

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 May 2012

Country: United States

Imprint: Skyhorse Publishing

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 216.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 1080g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Brett Markham is an engineer, third generation farmer and polymath.Using the methods explained in his book, he runs a profitable, Certified Naturally Grown mini-farm on less that an acre.Brett works full time as an engineer for a broadband ISP and farms in his spare time.The author of Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1 / 4 Acre he lives in New Ipswich, New Hampshire.

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