My tiny home farm
Subtitle: simple ideas for small spaces
By: Francine Raymond ; photography by Bill Mason
Contributors: Mason, Bill, photographer
Publisher: Pavilion
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781910904725
Subjects: Animal culture; Small Farms; Vegetable gardening; Self-reliant living
Description: Think you don't have enough room to green up your act? My Tiny Garden Farm is bursting with innovative ideas and savvy solutions to help you transform any small space into a slice of the good life. With forest plots, urban orchards and amazing allotments, we've unearthed over 25 exciting spaces. Meet the Kent College showing local schools how to deal with ducks, the Brooklyn inner city community gardeners who are growing nuts, and Devonshire couple who have filled their front yard with edible flowers. You'll pick up all the best tips and tricks as each gardener shares their small-scale expertise, from super seed swaps to mastering seasonal gluts. Plus, practical projects including building a plant ladder, constructing a hedge fence and improving your chicken coop will help you make the most of every inch. Whether you're looking to grow backgarden veg in a bucket, build a bee nest, or go the whole hog with your plot, get inspired, let your imagination grow and enjoy your tiny garden farm. Word count: 25,000.
Table of contents: title: Growing all over the world : Veg United Nations ; How to: Plant a potato bucket ; From banker to smallholder ; Up on the roof ; Mobile in the city ; Swedish koloni gardens ; How to: build a plant ladder; title: Out of the ordinary : Digging down under ; Petal power ; How to : Make a garlic spray ; Herbs for health ; Orchards for all ; How to : Make fruit leathers ; First steps to keeping animals; title: Harvest time : Scandi smallholding ; Family entertaining ; How to: Make a fire pit ; Growing together ; A toast to organic wine ; A time of plenty ; How to: Make plum gin; title: Garden farming ; The really good life ; Learning to grow ; How to: Make a dust bath ; Luxury allotment ; Blue hen flowers ; Bees in Bohuslan ; How to: Build a bee hotel; title: Muck into magic : Starting from scratch ; Waste to wonder ; How to: Make nettle fertilizer ; Forest gardening ; Befriending the pollinators ; Three go smallholding ; How to: build a dead hedge.