Five Acres and Independence

Five Acres and Independence: A practical guide to the selection and management of the small farm is a book about self-sustainable small-scale farming, written by Maurice Grenville Kains.

[1] It was first published in 1935[2] during the Great Depression.

It was written to provide practical information[3] for people such as urban factory workers who had never worked on a farm.

[4] The book contains 46 chapters on all types of farming practices.

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