Our Farm of Four Acres

This special re-print edition of "Our Farm Of Four Acres" is an old fashioned guide to homesteading and farming. Written in 1871, this classic text was written to document an English family's transition from the hustle and bustle of London to a small four acre farm in the British countryside. This family's experience will be of interest to those interested in homesteading, small scale farming or simply returning to a slower rural lifestyle. Chapters include Where Shall We Live?, Our First Difficulty, Our Second Cow, Milking and How To Make Butter, Butter Curing and Keeping, Our Pigs, Bacon Making and Ham Curing, Our Poultry, Rabbit Keeping, Our Pigeons, Our Bread, Settling Down, We Take More Land, More Cows, Cheese Making, Poultry On A More Ambitious Scale, Our Sheep, Our Kitchen Garden, Our Orchard and much more. A delightful and enlightening read. 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.