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Michael Kelly


Biography/Memoir
Food and Drink
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Book Details:
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Price: €14.99
Binding: pb
Pages: 400
Size: 234x156mm
ISBN-10 1-84717-168-0
ISBN-13 978-1-84717-168-9

Rights held: World, all languages.

Tales From the Home Farm


Live More. Spend Less. Grow your own food!
by Michael Kelly

Turn the doom and gloom into a better, more enjoyable way of living.
Want to eat better, save money, work those muscles without the treadmill, know where your food comes from? This could be the new, recession-proof you! Five years ago Michael Kelly chucked in the corporate life to try his hand at ‘the good life’. It’s been the most rewarding thing he has ever done – and you could do it too. Make your back (or front) garden work for you; or maybe an allotment?
Based on his own, sometimes hilarious experiences, Michael shares what he’s learned, taking us through the year on his small home farm.

  • Included:
  • What to grow and when. What’s worth it? What’s not?
  • Hens and pigs – the ups and downs
  • Cooking and storing your bounty
  • The health benefits – physical and mental
  • Linking up with others - food swapping and markets, and the return of the meitheal

Extracts available: read some of this book now ...
Contents
Chapter 3: Spring Forward

Links
Michael's personal website

Also by this author
Trading Paces (pb)

Praise for Tales From the Home Farm

'for sheer, vital grabbing inspiration, pick up a copy of Michael Kelly’s passionate and often hilarious Tales from the Home Farm' Irish Examiner

'Calling all fans of ‘The Good Life, this book should be your bible' Food & Wine Magazine

'a great read – even if you never break out the wellies' Food & Wine Magazine

'delivers advice and insight into every aspect of home-farm living' Food & Wine Magazine

'an excellent book for people who are afraid to go in the garden for fear of making a fool of themselves' Clare People

'full of simple, useful information, straightforwardly presented' Clare People

'Tales from the Home Farm by Michael Kelly is like a gentle hand guiding you into your garden' Clodagh McKenna, Irish Examiner

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