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Probably the finest book ever written on farming your own smallholding or homestead acreage...

by Maurice Grenville Kains

...virtually everything you need to know, drawn from the counsel and experience of one of America's most highly-recognized small farm experts. A great resource for those thinking of moving back to the land, and for independent living!

"Five Acres And Independence," by Maurice Grenville Kains

In the endless debate about the relative merits of food storage versus attempting to live off the land in the event of a major crisis, social breakdown or sudden serious food shortage, this invaluable book is worth recommending as a "third option". We can't recommend it highly enough! It's a simply-written goldmine of information on food production and "independent living" - well worth investing in, even if you don't buy the farm [it may even help you avoid "buying the farm", as the British say, in desperate circumstances!]

"Anyone who has ever dreamed of getting back to the soil will get from Maurice Grenville Kains' practical and easy -to-understand discussions a more complete view of what small-scale farming means. Most likely, you, like thousands of others who have read Five Acres and Independence will come away with specific projects that you can begin, specific plans that you can start to materialize. The farmer in you will begin to appear, bringing you closer to the fulfillment of that dream of on dependence on a small farm of your own.

Whether you already own a suitable place or whether you are still looking, Five Acres and Independence will help you learn to evaluate land for both its total economic and its specific agricultural possibilities. There are methods of calculating costs of permanent improvements - draining the land, improving soil, planting wind breaks, putting in septic tanks, cellars, irrigation systems, greenhouses, etc. - and methods of carrying out those improvements.

There are suggestions for specific crops - strawberries, grapes, vegetables, orchards, spring, summer and fall crops, transplanting, timing, repairing what already exists - with methods of deciding what is best for your land and purposes, and methods of making each of them pay. There are suggestions of animals for the small-scale farmer -goats, chickens, hens - and means of working them into your overall farm design. And finally there are suggestions for keeping your small farm in top production condition, methods of continually increasing the value of your farm, methods of marketing your produce, methods of accurately investing in improvements, virtually everything a small- scale farmer needs to know to make his venture economically sound.

Some things, of course, have changed since 1940 when M. G. Kains revised Five Acres and Independence. But the basic down-to-earth advice of one of the most prominent men in recent American agriculture, and the methods of farming the small-scale, pre-DDT farm, are still pretty much the same. Much of the information in this book was built on USDA and state farm bureau reports; almost all of it was personally tested by M. G. Kains either on his own farms or on the farms of the people who trusted him as an experi- enced consultant. His book went through more than 30 editions in the ten years after it was first printed and helped countless small farmers attain their dream; it continues today as an exceptional source for those who want to make their first farming attempt."

If you're going thinking of getting back to the land, why reinvent the plough? This extraordinarily valuable book will enable you to quickly benefit from the immense reservoirs of experience garnered over a lifetime by one of America's most expert and outstanding small farmers.

Unabridged paperback republication of the second (1940) edition. New introduction by J. E. Oldfield. Appendices. Index. 397 pages.

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"The SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea" - John Wiseman [Note: this is the US edition; the British edition is shown above - the contents are the same in both editions, only the covers and sizes differ]

"The Complete Wilderness Training Book" - Hugh McManners

"Camping And Woodcraft" - Horace Kephart

"Wilderness Living" - Gregory J. Davenport

"Wilderness Survival" - Gregory J. Davenport

"Primitive Wilderness Living and Survival Skills: Naked into the Wilderness" - John McPherson and Geri McPherson

"Primitive Wilderness Skills, Applied And Advanced" - John McPherson and Geri McPherson

"Primitive Technology: A Book of Earth Skills" - David Wescott, Society of Primitive Technology

"Primitive Technology II: Ancestral Skills from the Society of Primitive Technology" - edited by David Wescott, Society of Primitive Technology

"Participating in Nature: Thomas J. Elpel's Field Guide to Primitive Living Skills" - Thomas J. Elpel

"Making Arrows the Old Way" - Doug Wallentine

"Old Tools, New Eyes: A Primal Primer of Flintknapping " - Bob Patten and Richard Jagoda

"Early Hunting Tools: An Introduction to Flintknapping" - Matt Gravelle

"Flintknapping" - Paul Hellweg

"Flintknapping: Making and Understanding Stone Tools" - John C. Whittaker

"Earth Knack: Stone Age Skills for the 21st Century" - John C. Whittaker

"US Army Survival Manual: FM 21-76" - Department of Defense