“Homesteading days are here again,” wrote New Jersey’s Secretary of Agriculture in 1934, as hard times pushed city families toward the country. Duryee takes them through every decision: whether to leave the city at all, finding and financing a place, what a country house needs, water and services, making the soil produce, and the satisfactions of a garden of one’s own.
A sensible, humane handbook from the Depression that speaks to anyone dreaming of a smallholding. Download the free EPUB.