Reading Ten Acres Enough

[savingdogs]

I'm currently about 75 percent through reading Ten Acres Enough by Edmund Morris

What an interesting book! I had heard it mentioned here on this forum and bought a 3.00 Kindle version yesterday, and can't put it down!

I was wondering how many of you read this book and were influenced by it. I find it really quaint and love the old fashioned language, but don't really find too much is obsolete despite the age. And actually, I think we are all about returning to some of the methods described, such as "manuring" the fields with natural animal waste and building the soil as opposed to using chemical fertilizers.

If anyone has a Kindle out there, I highly recommend they pick up the 3.00 dollar version Amazon is currently offering.

 

[Lady Henevere]

You can also get it free (online, pdf, kindle, epub, etc.) here.

I have it but I have only read a few pages of it so far.

 

[savingdogs]

Gosh, and I paid three dollars for it!

But either way, it is an excellent book.

 

[JRmom]

I read this book a couple of years ago... excellent! I downloaded the ePub version so I can read it again. It's amazing how many books written over a 100 years ago are so timely today.

Savingdogs, here is another excellent book: The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, a free download, http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/140

I bought the paper version of this book at Goodwill a while back. What an eye opener about the beef and hog industry!!!

 

[BarredBuff]

Thanks for the link I have one saved on my puter now so I m going to start reading it here.

 

[savingdogs]

I just finished it! I really enjoyed it.

 

[Dawn419]

Adding this to my reading list!

I also enjoy anything written by the Nearings and John Seymour.