Tumbledown Farm .9 Acres (give or take an acre or two)

Editor's Note: With the average value of farmland in the Midwest up 25% in the past year (Wisconsin Ag Connection, "Midwest Farmland Values Jump...," 11/17/2011) and with credit tight (cheaper, but also tighter), this final chapter of Smith's French Gardening makes more sense than ever. As Carol Deppe says, what is critical is not the ownership of land to garden, but "the knowledge and skills to use it" ("How Much Land Do You Need?" in The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times).

A Calendar of Reminders for the intensive French market garden, based on the climate at Mayland in England.

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CHAPTER II

CHAPTER I

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

General View ... ... ... ... Frontispiece

Facing Page

A Sample of Cauliflowers ... ... ...

The Cantaloupe or "Rock" Melon ... ... xxxi

Carrying Manure to the Hot-beds ... ... 16

CONTENTS

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Forewords by Prince Kropotkin . . . v

Extract from Prince Kropotkin's Fields, Factories, and Workshops... xi

Author's Preface ... ... ... ... xiii

EXTRACT FROM KROPOTKIN'S "FIELDS, FACTORIES, AND WORKSHOPS"

"While science devotes its chief attention to industrial pursuits, a limited number of lovers of nature and a legion of workers whose very names will remain unknown to posterity have created of late a quite new agriculture, as superior to modern farming, as modern farming is superior to the old three fields system of our ancestors . . . .