The Smallholder's Handbook

Annotation

The Good Life in Real Life is a detailed manual to start, plan and manage your own smallholding.

Author Biography

Suzie Baldwin grew up on a farm in Devon, where from an early age she cared for a menagerie of animals, including chickens, sheep, ducks, horses and even ferrets. She has kept chickens for more than 20 years and has recently moved to her own smallholding in Surrey.

Review

'You don't need acres of space to keep enough livestock to live the good life [...] Suzie Baldwin's new book The Smallholder's Handbook tells you all you need to know to get started.' --Bunny Guiness, The Sunday Telegraph 'A practical introduction to people interested in setting up a smallholding.[...] Based on her personal experience and interlaced with anecdotes and tips, she has produced a helpful and extremely easy-to-read guide on keeping chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl, ducks, geese, cows, pigs, sheep and goats, and covers aspects such as choosing a breed, housing, feeding, health and specific issues relating to the poultry and livestock.' --NFU Countryside 'Start, plan and manage your own smallholding with the very useful The Smallholder's Handbook, Suzie Baldwin's manual to keeping poultry, pigs, sheep and bees.' --Country Living

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06 Jan, 2019

Very informative.Well written & easy to understan
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