The Tiny Farm Planner is an illustrated planner and record keepers that’s ideal for small farmers, veg box schemes, community gardeners and community gardeners. Manage your tasks by season using the checklists, tracking planting dates to chore lists and yield/harvest times. It includes record pages for soil test results and handy growing tips.
Use no-dig gardening and fruit protection bags (over netting, which can trap birds and wildlife). Learn how to create gardens safe for pets (use humane slug/snail deterrents). Avoid facing indoor foliage to outdoor gardens, to help stop birds flying into windows.
Also read this book on how to build your own farm tools. Set up a workshop and make 15 tools including simple seedling benches, a mini barrel washer, a DIY germination chamber and a rolling pack table. Plus learn how to design an effective drip irritation system.
Donkey Gardening Gloves are vegan-friendly and good quality and profits help a local animal sanctuary. Due to synthetic materials, use a microplastic catcher if laundering.
No-Till farming protects earthworms and results in better yields and less weeds and back-breaking word. By working with nature, rather than forks and spades. The author runs a no-till (3 acres) farm in Maine (USA) that produces food for hundreds of families, turning over a good profit (all reinvested) within four years.
Sustainable Market Farming is a guide to growing food organically, by someone who feeds a community of 100 people on just a few acres of land in Virginia, using disease-resistant varieties of crops and organised business skills.
Compact Farms is a book of 15 illustrated vegetable farm plans, on 5 acres or less of land. Learn how to save water and grow food with maximum efficiency and minimal effort. The book profiles small-scale farmers in urban and rural settings, who earned enough income to turn hobbies into careers.
The Farm Carbon Calculator is a free toolkit that takes up to 2 hours, to help save carbon and therefore money. Developed by a Scilly organic farber, it can be used for any scale or soil type.
MudControl slabs turns muddy dangerous land into safe places eto pass through, or eat hay. They are used with sand for easy installation.
The Farmer’s Office is a book to help farms get more profits (which means better welfare for animals as it costs money to buy feed and good housing).
Agritourism is money made from renting farm buildings to holidaymakers (don’t let dogs near livestock). WWOOF offers free board and food in return for volunteers who get knowledge and experience (this is active learning, not cheap labour).
