Everyone who has ever dreamed of getting back to the soil will derive from Maurice Grenville Kains practical and easytounderstand discussions a more complete view of what smallscale farming means Countless readers of Five Acres and Independence have come away with specific projects to begin and moved closer to the fulfillment of their dreams of independence on a small farmWhether you already own a suitable place or are still looking Five Acres and Independence will help you learn to evaluate land for both its total economic and its specific agricultural possibilities There are methods of calculating costs of permanent improvementsdraining the land improving soil planting wind breaks putting in septic tanks cellars irrigation systems greenhouses etcand methods of carrying out those improvements There are suggestions for specific cropsstrawberries grapes vegetables orchards spring summer and fall crops transplanting timing repairing what already existswith methods of deciding what is