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One Acre and Security: How to Live Off the Earth Without Ruining It
One Acre and Security: How to Live Off the Earth Without Ruining It

 enlarge 		Author: Bradford Angier
Publisher: Willow Creek Press
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars 4 reviews
Sales Rank: 377032

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 1

ISBN: 157223394X
Dewey Decimal Number: 630
UPC: 709786003389
EAN: 9781572233942
ASIN: 157223394X

Publication Date: December 2000
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4 out of 5 stars Good general info for average folks   May 23, 2008
While this book has some outdated statistics and methods -- which the publisher freely admits in the intro (original was published in the 70's after all) -- it does still give you some good general information and a pretty good idea what life on the farm is going to be like. Even gives some tips on side-income (like raising worms under your rabbit hutches).

However, the exploitative/utlitarian perspective from the 70's may offend some of today's modern homesteaders who are more concerned with eco-responsibility and full-cycle sustainability. Also, some of the methods advocated in this book are just the sort of methods that new homesteaders are trying to correct to improve their eco-footprints. If you're able to step back from the details and look at the rhythm of farm life he illustrates, the information he provides is still relevant today.

I was somewhat disappointed that there was no mention of distilling your homemade wines into vinegars, or how to make mead (considering he spent oodles of time discussing the wonders of bees!). Very little was mentioned about preserving summer's bounty from your garden... although he did spend a great deal of time explaining everything you might ever want to know about herb gardens. Very little about trees and other fruits in here at all (except a smattering of wild berries). Not much info on "free-ranging" anything either... but then again, that concept wasn't really around when he wrote the book.


1 out of 5 stars From raping the land to raping its creatures   December 6, 2007
 7 out of 30 found this review helpful

"Back to earth" homesteaders won't find this suitable if they have any empathy whatsoever with innocent creatures. Who in their right mind would abandon technology, chemicalization & mechanization of society, and then raise rabbits for horrific experimental usage in laboratories? This book is guide for societal outcasts, perhaps those who once raised pitbulls for dogfights, were caught & now must find yet another source of income beyond moonshining.


4 out of 5 stars good resource, but not for everyone   February 15, 2007
 18 out of 20 found this review helpful

While this book was very thorough and had a lot of good info, there was a lot of emphasis on keeping animals for food or slaughter. This is fine for some folks, it just wasn't something that I was interested in. There was also mention of keeping rabbits and guinea pigs to sell to laboratories, which probably isn't something a lot of today's earth loving folk would be interested in. The book does have some good information about getting started gardening, as well as how to get started keeping a variety of animals along with bees, fish, frogs, and earthworms. All in all though, I think it is sort of more of a book to give you general ideas than anything else. If you wanted to really get into gardening or bee keeping, etc., I would opt to get a book specifically about such a topic. If you just want some ideas about what you might do and/or how to get started, then this book would be a good match for you.


5 out of 5 stars A classic on how to live in the country and off the land   February 27, 2001
 27 out of 52 found this review helpful

Bradford Angier's One Acre & Security provides a classic on how to live in the country and off the land without ruining it.It first appeared in 1972 and was one of the forerunners of the back-to-earth movement: here it returns to offer new audiences discussions on organic gardening, how to build a house and keep animals, and how to live in the country.


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