Learn how to set up your own smallholding, grow your own fruit and vegetables, rear chickens, pigs, lambs and other livestock to help you create a sustainable, organic lifestyle. This excellent new guide brings the heart of the land to your table, with advice on where to buy, how to maintain and create a long term plan for an organic lifestyle.
Offers all the information you need to help you to start keeping chickens, from how to choose, house, feed and handle them to how many eggs they lay, their affect on the local ecosystem and how to protect from foxes and other predators.
"Stunning portraits of 40 horses from around the world; detailed charts with breed features and information on uses, size, origin, distribution, and related breeds; close-up reportage photography for the view straight from the horses' mouths; a fascinating potted history of horses."--Page 4 of cover.