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    The Mini Farming Handbook
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    The Mini Farming Handbook

    By Brett L. Markham

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    About this ebook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSkyhorse Publishing
    Release dateMay 6, 2014
    ISBN9781629142876
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