LIVING THE COUNTRY DREAM

All the knowledge required for anyone thinking of embracing the good life in the city, the country or the suburbs. Covers: designing and planning your kitchen garden and choosing and planting crops; planting fruit trees; livestock from bees and poultry to lambs and pigs; planting a wildflower meadow, a woodland and even a nuttery; how to best use the barn, the woodyard, the workshop and the store; and how to create and preserve produce, bake bread and make dairy products. Other sections address green housekeeping with natural products.