The Mini Farming Handbook

Brett L. Markham (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

432 Seiten

2014
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62914-197-8 (ISBN)

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Contains mini farming basics along with in-depth tips on vegetable gardening, fermenting, composting, and self-sufficiency in a handy new format and design. This book includes: soil management and making your own fertilizer; crop rotation and over cropping; composting; and seed starting and timing/planning.

Bestselling author Brett Markham’s new handbook gives us the mini farming basics along with in-depth tips on vegetable gardening, fermenting, composting, and self-sufficiency in a handy new format and design. Includes:
Soil management and making your own fertilizer
Crop rotation and cover cropping
Composting
Seed starting and timing/planning
Raised beds and pest management
Pvc trellising and planting spacers
Raising chickens, making your own chicken plucker, and butchering
Growing fruit/nut trees and vines
Food preservation (canning and freezing)
Fermenting wine, vinegar and cheese
With the full color photographs that made the original Mini Farming so popular, and step by step drawings, projects, graphs, and tables, you’ll have everything you need for your new or established mini farm at your fingertips. So dive in a learn how to begin and cultivate your own mini farm on less than a quarter acre.

Brett L. Markham is an engineer, third-generation farmer, and polymath. Using the methods explained in his bestselling series Mini Farming, he runs a profitable, Certi?ed Naturally Grown mini farm on less than half an acre. Brett works full time as an engineer for a broadband ISP and farms in his spare time.

Zusatzinfo	Color photos throughout
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	626 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	1-62914-197-6 / 1629141976
ISBN-13	978-1-62914-197-8 / 9781629141978
Zustand	Neuware