Whether you are an established smallholder, or just starting to take the first tentative steps towards farming at your home, The Smallholder's Manual contains a wealth of valuable information on all the key aspects of small-scale agriculture. Topics covered include: · The rural property: buying a small farm, preparing outbuilding and equipping it with machinery and tools. · The land: the kitchen garden, protected cultivation, orchards and pasture. · Livestock: from bees, rabbits and chickens to goats, cattle and exotic species. · Commercial considerations, regulations and organic farming. Illustrated with 200 diagrams and colour photographs, this practical handbook will be welcomed by the small-scale farmer in the twenty-first century. AUTHOR: For thirteen years Katie Thear and her husband David lived on a smallholding in Essex, where they combined small-scale farming with publishing Country Smallholding magazine. Katie has advised on organic and welfare standards for poultry and livestock, and currently lectures in the UK and USA. 200 colour photos