Enter to Win: Gardening Book on Mini Farming
July 2, 2012By Rachel Bertone
This month, we’re helping you shrink your garden while still reaping lots of tasty fruits and vegetables by giving away Brett L. Markham’s Maximizing Your Mini Farm: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre.
This substantial guide dives into the process of mini farming, a holistic approach to small-area farming, with tips, tricks and planning advice on how to make the most of your less-than-large plot. Whether you’re growing an urban rooftop garden or simply lack space in your backyard, Markham’s book includes sections on planting guides and seeders, easy trellising, soil and fertility, and more for small-area gardens. There’s even a section on making cheese at home!
Enter below for your chance to win. We are accepting entries through the end of July, and the winner will be notified by email. Good luck!
Love all the great articels that are in every issue.
Gardening is my husband’s passion. He’s retiring August 1 – he would love this!
Would love to know more about small gardening!
I love t read all the great articles and keep up with the going ons of Tennessee life
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I would like to know more about how to be more productive on a small area.
Great idea!
I love the magazines that I get from Farm Bureau
I love the magazines that I receive from Farm Bureau. We also garden, but not as much as we used to.
Love reading the magazine!
This book would be right up my alley because I have a very small garden,
My family has a small garden and we all love working in it from start to finish. What a great family activity.
Love the mag. we get- always read every word- if there were 100 books free, and names were picked, and 101 entrants entered, being “Murphy,s Law” person, I’d be the only one not to get one (*~*) but that’s o.k.- I do love the idea and the magazine..
Since the loss of my father in dec who was my mentor in gardening i use his little garden to raise some vegtables.I would love to win the book so i could learn stuff that he didnt to teach me.
I love the magazine. We can’t waite each year for our garden to come in. Everything tastes fo good in the winter time. Better than store produce and cheaper too.
This sounds very interesting!!
This is my first year to have a small garden at my home. In past years, I helped my dad in a large garden. I thought I was more than capable of having a small garden of my own. But apparently not, my garden is not doing so well. I hope I win your book – I think I need some pointers on how to maximize my space. Thanks.
sounds like an excellent book, would love to read it and learn more
would love to do a mini garden that I could manage by myself.
Please enter me in the winn the nini gardening contest.
I look forward to each issue. Articles are related to area of the country we live in. Great!
i sure could use this book
Good things come in small packages.
Love to know more about small gardening as I have very limited space for gardening
We certainly could use this book.
I’m growing tomatoes, zucchini and yellow squash. I also have some basil in pots.
Great idea for giveaway! Lve reading about this topic!
I look forward to every email and every issue that arrives in my mailbox.
My kind of book. I would love to win this. Sure would make for good reading on a long winters night.
an exellent incentive ..
GREAT MAGAZINE AND LOTS OF GREAT IDEAS AND RECIPES. THANKS SO MUCH, REALLY ENJOY IT. WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A MINI GARDEN, LIVING IN A CONDO WITH LITTLE SPACE, BUT GROW GREAT TOMATOES AND WOULD LIKE TO TRY MORE.
Would love to win!!!
I would enjoy winning this book – it would help me very much. We have been
putting out a small garden for the last two years. That way we get to enjoy
the produce thru the summer months.
Thank you
Would like to own a good gardening book!
I’d like to learn how to utilize our new property.
Would love to win. I have limited space available.
Working with dirt and growing plants you can consume is very healthy for the soul.
We operate a small CSA in Southern West Virginia. We have had an abundance of swiss chard, kale, beets, onions, carrots, potatoes, lettuce etc. for Spring baskets.
We live on 1/4 acre and our garden has expanded over the years ~ always wanting to learn more!
I love gardening and being able to provide food fresh from the plant to my family. Would love to learn even more!
Not much. Too hot and dry.
I would love to win this to get more out of my small gardening attempts!!!
We are growing the basics but things we are always eating. We have lots of lettuce 3 different tomatoes & a few heirloom tomatoes, snap peas, cilantro, basil, thyme, mint, cucumber, zucchini, bush beans, carrots & jalapenos!
Can’t imagine the effort to maintain a garden that is multiple acres large — something in the 1/4 acre would seem manageable and something I would be very interested in knowing a lot more about. THANKS!!!
Sounds like a great book.
Just retired about a year ago. Built two raised bed gardens this spring and could really use a book like this!
+1 do it and win
Always interesting content. I look forward to seeing each new edition.
I enjoy the information in your emails and on your website. Thanks.
Love gardening and all the benefits of having fun watching and eating all the produce. Plus love sharing with my older neighbors and friends. Always love to learn more about gardening and how it make it better.
Thanks for the great magazine and the giveaways. I would love to share this with my Dad (he loves gardening).
I have a small space and love gardening.
Very much a novice but enjoying learning. My little garden this year has sage, basil, oregano, a couple peppers, fennel and sweet potatoes.
I’ve been looking for a way to grow vegetables in a small space. Mini farming sounds like just the ticket to solve this problem.
Sounds like the book I Need !
Cucmbers!
Tomatoes!
All kinds of things but the heirloom tomatoes watermelons and muskmelons are performing the best in this heat and drought.
Squash!
Watermelon!
Peaches!
Sounds like a very good book. Hope my name is chosen.
I injoy reading about a mimi farm. I thank that would meat my needs mour than a large farm.
Thanks for a change to win Mr. Markham book on a small farm.
I have a very small yard so this would be great!!
I love gardening. Look forward to every issue.
Thanks
Tomatoes…lots and lots of tomatoes!
Oranges!
Radishes!
Love the magazine & would love to learn to make better use of my space.
Nectrines!
More squash!
Star fruit.
Green Onion!
My garden is not doing well in this drought. The weeds seem to be the only things growing!
Aloe Vera
We read it from cover to cover. Wish it was a monthly or bi-monthly publication
Corn!
strawberries
Would love to have a mini garden. Times are getting more necessary to be self-suffucient. I plan to expand my gardening next year. Please enter me in the contest
Honeydew!
blueberries!!
bell peppers!
asparagus
Spinich!!
Lettuce!
Well I would enjoy this book for sure as there’s always something to be learned.
Please, please pick me. I really want to garden and I do not have a clue how or where to start. I want to take better care of the ones I love:)
My husband and I are both seniors and a large garden can suddenly get away from us. The weeds seem to take control and we just are not able to keep up. We love gardening and will always have some kind of summer vegetables planted. Gardening is in our soles and we would not be happy if we didn’t have a garden each summer. This book would be great for us to start a new type of gardening. Thanks for the opportunity to win a free one.
Mini farming would make good use of lands & time. It’s a great place to begin cutting your grocery budget by growing some of your own produce.
Basil!
I love reading this, seeing the pictures…too much fun..!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love reading this and looking at the wonderful pictures. Thanks for sharing