The Home Farm: How to Grow Your Own Fruit and Vegetables and Keep Animals and Bees in Your Backyard

Description

Create your own farm in your garden with tips on growing, harvesting and eating your own produce Nicki Trench has created her own garden farm from scratch, and now shares with you everything there is to know about growing vegetables, fruit and herbs, including making your own compost, growing in raised beds and protecting your crops from pests and disease. Nicki also explains how to rear chickens for eggs and bees for honey, and gives advice on keeping goats and pigs. The benefits of creating your garden farm are not just economic - the energy once obsessively expended on the exercise bike can now be channelled more productively by digging the vegetable patch, turning the compost or cleaning out the hen coop. Communities are reappearing over garden fences as neighbours share their harvest of courgette, spinach and eggs. Whatever you choose to grow or rear on your garden farm, this book offers a taste of the good life that is easy, satisfying and inexpensive to achieve.

Nicki Trench is a bestselling author, crafter and vegetable grower. She teaches, lectures, and writes features on knitting, crochet, sewing, cake decorating, and hen keeping. Her books include Cute & Easy Crochet (over 125,000 copies sold), Cute and Easy Crochet with Flowers, Halloween Crochet, and Color Block Knits, all published by CICO Books. When she's not gardening or crocheting, Nicki travels the world to dance the tango. Visit her website at www.nickitrench.com to find out more. Nicki is based in the countryside, in East Sussex.