You can grow all the fruit and vegetables your family needs, raise animals for meat and eggs, keep fish and bees, and even produce firewood on a plot of land of just one acre or less – alongside your work and family life.

Whether you have a garden, a paddock or perhaps the corner of a field, Sally Morgan guides you through:

• How to lay out your plot – including fencing and polytunnels or greenhouses
• Managing soil fertility
• Growing fruit and vegetables throughout the year
• Keeping livestock: poultry, pigs, sheep and goats
• Producing fish with aquaponics

Filled with practical advice, this book is essential reading for anyone who wants to be more self-sufficient and live a more sustainable life.

Introduction

Part One: Design & groundwork

1. Planning your plot

2. Soil matters

3. Soil fertility & crop rotations

Part Two: Growing produce

4. The vegetable & flower garden

5. An abundance of fruit

6. Tree crops & forest gardens

Part Three: Keeping livestock

7.  Poultry for eggs & meat

8.  Pigs for meat

9.  Including sheep or goats

10. Aquaponics

11. Beekeeping

Appendix: Livestock regulations & good practice

Resources

Index