Ten Acres Enough / A practical experience, showing how a very small farm may be made to keep a very large family

A practical manual combines first-person farm memoir and hands-on instruction for creating a productive smallholding capable of supporting a sizable family. It follows the author's transition from urban life to managing a small plot, describing site selection and purchase, orchard and small-fruit planting and care, vegetable gardening, livestock and poultry management, manure and soil-building techniques, seasonal operations and year-by-year results. Chapters offer specific methods for propagating peaches, raspberries, strawberries, and blackberries, advice on market gardening, cost and profit estimates, and reflections on economic and lifestyle tradeoffs between city and country living, together with recommendations on where and how to locate and run a modest, profitable farm.