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THE RURAL RESETTLEMENT GROUP

THE PEOPLE WHO DID IT
Successful Community of 50
Ashilford Farm
Lowsonford Farm
From Town To Countryside
Words and Action Community
Preparations for Small Holding
Ten Years On
Getting a Small Holding
Successful Organic Growing
Retraining at 45
Pottery making in a Country Cottage
Getting the most from your Goat
Development of Craft Villages

WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO MOVE TO?
Estate Agents
Historic Buildings Bureau
Empty Houses
Smaller Towns and Villages
Local Authority Small holdings
Registering as a Small-Holding
Land Settlement Association Holdings
Rural Allotments
Land in Urban Areas
British Rail Land
Ex-Army Land
Choosing a House
Looking for Land
What type of land?
What about Soil Fertility
Is Climate Important?
Is Topography Important?
Marketing
How Much Does Land Cost?
Using the Land

WORKING THE LAND
Subsistence Gardening and Farming: A Survey
How much land for subsistence?
How much Land for 'agricultural viability'?
What kind of crops, what sort of animals?
Animals
Poultry and Ducks
Geese
Rabbits
Pigs
Sheep
Housecows
Goats
Bees
Ferrets
Tools Education and Training
Agricultural Education and Training
Universities and National Colleges
Bibliography

Positive Future 2000
PF8
PF7
PF6
PF5
PF4
PF3
PF2
PF1

Other Resources I like

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The "classics" are:

John & Sally Seymour: Self Sufficiency (Faber) and many other books by John Seymour

Lawrence Hills: Organic Gardening (Penguin)

Other useful books:

Patrick Rivers: Living on a Little Land (Turnstone)

Derek Gardiner: Production and Management of Sheep (Hutchinson)

Gene Longsdon: Small-Scale Grain Raising (Rodale)

Whitehead: Honeybees and their Management (Faber)

Tampion: Gardeners' Practical (David & Botany Charles)

Joanna Smith: Farm Your Garden (Penguin)

Salter & Bleasdale: Know & Grow Vegetables (OUP)

Herbert Girardet (Editor): Land for the People (Crescent Books)

Prism Press publish a number of books on small-scale farming, etc. including:
The Backyard Poultry Book
The Backyard Dairybook
Backyard Farming, etc.
Catalogue from Prism Press.

Thorsons: publish a series on self-sufficiency which includes many interesting titles, including:
Papermaking at Home
Cultivating Rough Ground
Composting
Weather
Book of Formulas

Catalogue from Thorsons Publishers Ltd.; Wellingborough, Northants.