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Your first year: from keys to first harvest

What to do on the first day, in the first week and the first hundred days, how to get the first food from your own land and what not to do in year one

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Your first year: from keys to first harvest

In short

  • Safety first: electrics, chimney, drinking water, asbestos, open pits and wells.
  • The first year is a year of watching, but not an empty one: a small garden by the house and compost straight away.
  • Don't fell, demolish or build anything big until you have seen all four seasons.
  • Secure the first winter with dry firewood and water before anything else.
  • Meet the neighbours in the first month. They know things that are in no document.

What's inside

Chapters

  1. Day one: the safety check
  2. The first week and the first 30 days
  3. A year of watching, but not an empty one
  4. The first garden: food in the first season
  5. When you get the keys: by season
  6. The first winter: firewood, water and roof
  7. The first livestock
  8. Clearing without hurry
  9. End of the first year: the review
  10. Common mistakes
  11. Printable checklist

Worksheets

  • Day-one safety check
  • Plan for the first 100 days
  • First garden calculator
  • First-year journal
  • People and help
  • A year from keys to harvest
  • Review of the first year

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