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Three Acres and Liberty

Bolton Hall (1854 - 1938)

It (this book) shows what is needed for a city man or woman to support a family on the proceeds of a little bit of land; it shows how in truth, as the old Book prophesied, the earth brings forth abundantly after its kind to satisfy the desire of every living thing. It is not necessary to bury oneself in the country, nor, with the new facilities of transportation, need we, unless we wish to, pay the extravagant rents and enormous cost of living in the city. A little bit of land near the town or the city can be rented or bought on easy terms; and merchandising will bring one to the city often enough. Neither is hard labor needed; but it is to work alone that the earth yields her increase, and if, although unskilled, we would succeed in gardening, we must attend constantly and intelligently to the home acres. - Summary by Bolton Hall

Genre(s): Gardening

Language: English

Keyword(s): self-sufficiency (5), homesteading (5), greenhouse (3), living off the land (1), hobby farn (1), growing vegetables (1), ktichen garden (1), growing your own food (1), hotbed (1), woodlot (1)

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 00 Forward BettyB
00:23:25
Play 01 Chapter I: Making a Living—Where and How jenno
00:20:01
Play 02 Chapter II: Present Conditions jenno
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Play 03 Chapter III: How To Buy The Farm skgardner
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Play 04 Chapter IV: Vacant City Lot Cultivation Brize C
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Play 05 Chapter V: Results To Be Expected Brize C
00:34:17
Play 06 Chapter VI: What An Acre May Produce Christine Rottger
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Play 07 Chapter VII: Some Methods Brize C
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Play 08 Chapter VIII: The Kitchen Garden Leah Ruth
00:11:53
Play 09 Chapter IX: Tools And Equipment Brize C
00:14:55
Play 10 Chapter X: Advantages From Capital Brize C
00:31:37
Play 11 Chapter XI: Hotbeds And Greenhouses Leah Ruth
00:18:36
Play 12 Chapter XII: Other Uses Of Land Brize C
00:24:44
Play 13 Chapter XIII: Fruits yamaahmad493
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Play 14 Chapter XIV: Flowers BettyB
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Play 15 Chapter XV: Drug Plants skgardner
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Play 16 Chapter XVI: Novel Live Stock skgardner
00:20:51
Play 17 Chapter XVII: Where To Go jenno
00:38:53
Play 18 Chapter XVIII: Clearing The Land Brize C
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Play 19 Chapter XIX: How To Build Brize C
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Play 20 Chapter XX: Back To The Land Brize C
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Play 21 Chapter XXI: Coming Profession For Boys yamaahmad493
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Play 22 Chapter XXII: The Wood Lot yamaahmad493
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Play 23 Chapter XXIII: Some Practical Experiments Brize C
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Play 24 Chapter XXIV: Some Experimental Foods BettyB
00:18:05
Play 25 Chapter XXV: Dried Truck Brize C
00:11:46
Play 26 Chapter XXVI: Home Cold Pack Canning Christine Rottger
00:09:58
Play 27 Chapter XXVII: Retail Cooperation jkilly
00:24:58
Play 28 Chapter XXVIII: Summer Colonies For City People BettyB
00:15:57