Mini Farming: A Beginner’s Guide to Profiting from Crops, Vegetables and Livestock
Written by Luke Smith
Narrated by Mark Felton
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
Have you always been interested in getting into gardening for self-sustenance, but don't know where to begin? Do you want to learn how to grow your own healthy and organic crops and rely less on chemically-treated, store-bought groceries?
If your answer is yes to any of the questions above, then this book is for you.
In this guide, Luke Smith completely breaks down the steps you need to take to set up your own mini farm using a small patch of land, like your backyard. With a holistic approach to small-area farming, you'll learn how to use both cutting-edge and time-tested farming practices to grow and maintain healthy crops and livestock.
Take a look at some of the things you're going to discover in Mini Farming:
● Everything you need to know about the highly sustainable and practical practice of mini farming
● 6 compelling reasons to adopt the mini farming approach instead of the time and labor-intensive traditional farming
● The different types of cropping systems and how to choose the best suitable cropping system for your own farm
● How to efficiently raise specialty livestock such as cattle, chickens, goats and even bees for sustenance and profit
● ...and much more!
Designed to be beginner-friendly and brimming with tons of insights and actionable advice that even seasoned gardeners will find useful, Mini Farming will quickly become your reference guide to cultivating healthy and vibrant crops as efficiently as possible, no matter your level of gardening skill!
Luke Smith
Luke and Nell are hikers, travellers and bloggers who detail their slow travel adventures around the world on their blog whatifwewalked.com. Inveterate world backpackers, they started the blog in 2017 when they walked the 2000km Via Francigena from Canterbury in the UK through France, Switzerland and Italy on to Rome. Since then they have walked extensively in Europe photographing, writing and blogging about trails in Germany, Spain, Portugal, the Faroe Islands, Scotland and much beyond. This is their first guidebook for Cicerone.
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Reviews for Mini Farming
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great for the absolute basics/ fresh to the grass beginners looking for an overview.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Very basic
Some ideas outdated.
Good if you have never looked into farming.