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The Smallholder's Manual by: Katie Thear List Price: £25.00 Vegetarian Books Price: £17.50 You Save: £7.50 (30%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 630 EAN: 9781861265555 ISBN: 1861265557 Label: The Crowood Press Ltd Manufacturer: The Crowood Press Ltd Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 240 Publication Date: November 25, 2002 Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd Studio: The Crowood Press Ltd Sales Rank: 18201 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - The Smallholder's ManualThis is a much more practical and detailed book than anything else currently available on the subject. It's up to date and based on real experience which is more than one can say for some of the trendy television-linked books. If you're a smallholder, intending or existing, this is the book you need. Rating: - Essential reading for the wannabe SmallholderThis is an essential book for those of you thinking of running a smallholding or looking to exploit a large garden for home grown produce. It is chock full of useful practical data; there is no fluff or non essential padding. This may make it seem like pretty dry reading. Not a bit of it. The style is engaging and easy to read. I read it in chunks on my daily commmute, and it lends itself well to this approach. The book falls down on the index which is much too brief and is not all that useful. The glossary could do with expanding as well, since there were some words that get an explanation in the body of the text, but when you see it, for example in a seed catalogue, you can't remember what it means (e.g. F1 type) Read More: Rating:  - Not quite a ManualThe book is aimed at established smallholders and those just starting out. For the estabalished smallholder you would bo hard pushed to find any new information. for those just starting out this book will provide good information on finding a smallholding . It gives good advice on the things you might overlook such as the buildings, boundaries, water and electric supply. While good on these subjects, the rest of the book aimed at growing crops and raising livestock, looks like it has taken the useful information from specialized books and thrown it away,and used the rest to fill up the empty pagesof this book. If just starting or an experienced smallholder an essential book to own would be The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency by John Seymour. ... Read More: |
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