Publisher's Synopsis
This special re-print edition of Bolton Hall's book "Three Acres and Liberty" is a guide to homesteading and personal self reliance. Written in 1922, this classic text by one of the founders of the Back-To-The-Land movement, provides insight into how an individual and their family may become self reliant on a parcel of land as small as three acres. Chapters include Making a Living - Where and How, How To Buy The Farm, Vacant City Lot Cultivation, Results To Be Expected, What An Acre May Produce, The Kitchen Garden, Tools and Equipment, Advantages From Capital, Hotbeds and Greenhouses, Other Uses For Land, Fruits, Flowers, Medicinal Plants, Novel Livestock, Where To Go, Clearing the Land, How To Build, Back To The Land, The Wood Lot, Some Practical Experiments, Experimental Foods, Drying Vegetables, Canning Food, Retail Cooperation, Summer Colonies For City People and much more. One of the great classic texts on homesteading and self suficiency. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.