Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Sufficiency

About this book

Country Skills is the complete practical guide to living off the land. Author Alison Candlin offers easy-to-follow advice about planning establishing and maintaining a small-acre farm an allotment or a backyard garden. She also includes essential tips on selecting housing and looking after chickens goats pigs bees and other animals as well as expert advice on collecting and recycling water composting your left-over scraps and generating energy for your own homesaving you lots of money and reducing your carbon footprint. Throughout are step-by-step instructions and over 350 photographs and illustrations to guide readers on planting growing harvesting preserving and storing vegetables and fruit of all kinds in all seasons in all parts of the country. Candlin also discusses building and using greenhouses rotating crops to replenish soil nutrients and installing proper drainage around your garden. Complete with a directory of common pests and diseases that could plague your homegrown produce as well as useful information on how to harvest wild food this book is the essential manual on living a self-sufficient greener and healthier lifestyle.