Flowerpot Farming by Jayne Neville demonstrates that you don´t need acres of land or even a big garden to enjoy your own fresh veg. This resourceful book details all you need to know to turn slabs of concrete into your very own grocery store. With plenty of advice on soil preparation, the best seeds, the best planting times and propagation this book encourages anyone to get started in flowerpot farming.

In Not just for Christmas Janice Houghton Wallace argues the case for keeping heritage turkeys as they are ideal for small-scale farming due to their higher level of immunity to disease and stress. This highly acclaimed book covers the breeds, housing, equipment, breeding, feeding, development, ailments, leglislation, sales, marketing, processing and despatching for the table, exhibition birds and turkeys as pets making it the key reference book on this subject.

The Cheese Making Book by Paul Peacock inspires the novice cheese maker by informing them how to make cheeses, soft and hard, in his usually witty and conversational style. The Cheese Making Book is an enjoyable read which will have you producing your own cheese in no time, either for your own consumption or to increase the profitability of your livestock, smallholding or home farm.

Whether making sausages on the kitchen table for the family meal or wanting to develop a small-scale business The Sausage Book by Paul Peacock explores the origins and development of the sausage before giving important guidance on the dos and don´ts of sausage making with tips and plenty of recipes including regional variations, traditional and contemporary fillings.

The Smoking and Curing Book by Paul Peacock provides east to follow step-by-step guides to the smoking and curing of meat, poultry, game, fish and cheese. Whether you plan to build a smoker to process your own produce or simply wish to smoke a few kippers and a little bacon in the family kitchen The Smoking and Curing Book will by your ideal companion. With the inclusion of many recipes for both cures and brines it will have you producing your own prize hams and rollmop herrings in no time.