Agriculture - General & Miscellaneous, Agricultural Management & Techniques, Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Applied - General & Miscellaneous

Ten Acres Enough

Name: Ten Acres Enough
Author: Edmund Morris
ISBN: 9781429013925

by Edmund Morris

Available on Bookshop Write a review

Books.org participates in affiliate programs including Bookshop.org and the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. We may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through links on this page, at no additional cost to you.

Overview

Ten years after Henry David Thoreau learned how to be a poor farmer, Edmund Morris learned how to be a good one. Ten Acres Enough is the personal story of how Morris quit the publishing business and achieved happiness and prosperity by farming ten acres of fruits and berries.
Rather than glorifying poverty and isolation, Ten Acres Enough shows farming as the path to financial security, while still providing all the benefits of country life-provided that the farmer understands that the key lies in producing crops of the highest possible quality, while living within striking distance of a major market.
Five Acres Enough has left its mark on generations of back-to-the-land farmers. Its influence on both the title and the contents of M. G. Kains' classic Five Acres and Independence (1935) is obvious. And it is benefiting readers today, whether as a piece of Americana or as a source of small-farm ideas and inspiration.
Through nearly 150 years old, Ten Acres Enough remains a fascinating book. However, the passage of time is making the original edition increasingly inaccessible due to its archaic vocabulary and style. This "Revived Edition" has been copy-edited to restore its clarity.

Synopsis

Edmund Morris' 1864 work describes his experiences as a new farmer who aimed to maintain his large family on a small farm.

About the Author, Edmund Morris

From his prizewinning biographies of his favorite president -- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and, more recently, Theodore Rex -- to his controversial coverage of Ronald Reagan in Dutch, Edmund Morris has established a reputation as a presidential profiler to watch.