{"id":16150,"key":"Three_Acres_and_Liberty","title":"Three Acres and Liberty","latest":{"id":1224350,"timestamp":"2026-01-09T00:38:14Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"{{Three Acres and Liberty navigation}}\n\nPlease do not edit the text itself on this page as this is a records of the original, but of course you may reuse and modify the text of this page on other pages on Appropedia, or elsewhere.\n\n<blockquote>\nTHREE ACRES AND LIBERTY\nBY BOLTON HALL\nAUTHOR OF \"THINGS AS THEY ARE,\" \"THRIFT,\" ETC.\nREVISED EDITION\n\n''\"A sower went out to sow and he sowed that which was in his heart —for what can a man sow else!\"'' From \"THE GAME OF LIFE.\" Or, as the Vulgate has it,—''\"Exitt qui seminat seminare semen suum.\"''\n\nNEW YORK\nTHE MACMILLAN COMPANY\n1918\nAll rights reserved.\nCopyright 1907 and 1918\nBy THE MACMILLAN COMPANY\nSet up and electrotyped. Published March, 1907.\nReprinted April, July, 1907; March, 1908; June,\nSeptember, 1910; April, 1912; April 1914.\nNew edition, revised February, 1918.\n</blockquote>\n\n== Credits ==\n\n* Created as a text file by: Steve Solomon {{Email|ssolomon@soilandhealth.org}}\n* Edited by Charles Aldarondo {{Email|aldarondo@yahoo.com}}\n\n== Table of contents ==\n\n* [[/Chapter I|Chapter I]]: Making a Living - Where and How\n* [[/Chapter II|Chapter II]]: Present Conditions\n* [[/Chapter III|Chapter III]]: How To Buy The Farm\n* [[/Chapter IV|Chapter IV]]: Vacant City Lot Cultivation\n* [[/Chapter V|Chapter V]]: Results To Be Expected\n* [[/Chapter VI|Chapter VI]]: What An Acre May Produce\n* [[/Chapter VII|Chapter VII]]: Some Methods\n* [[/Chapter VIII|Chapter VIII]]: The Kitchen Garden\n* [[/Chapter IX|Chapter IX]]: Tools And Equipment\n* [[/Chapter X|Chapter X]]: Advantages From Capital\n* [[/Chapter XI|Chapter XI]]: Hotbeds And Greenhouses\n* [[/Chapter XII|Chapter XII]]: Other Uses Of Land\n* [[/Chapter XIII|Chapter XIII]]: Fruits\n* [[/Chapter XIV|Chapter XIV]]: Flowers\n* [[/Chapter XV|Chapter XV]]: Drug Plants\n* [[/Chapter XVI|Chapter XVI]]: Novel Live Stock\n* [[/Chapter XVII|Chapter XVII]]: Where To Go\n* [[/Chapter XVIII|Chapter XVIII]]: Clearing The Land\n* [[/Chapter XIX|Chapter XIX]]: How To Build\n* [[/Chapter XX|Chapter XX]]: Back To The Land\n* [[/Chapter XXI|Chapter XXI]]: Coming Profession For Boys\n* [[/Chapter XXII|Chapter XXII]]: The Wood Lot\n* [[/Chapter XXIII|Chapter XXIII]]: Some Practical Experiments\n* [[/Chapter XXIV|Chapter XXIV]]: Some Experimental Foods\n* [[/Chapter XXV|Chapter XXV]]: Dried Truck\n* [[/Chapter XXVI|Chapter XXVI]]: Home Cold Pack Canning\n* [[/Chapter XXVII|Chapter XXVII]]: Retail Cooperation\n* [[/Chapter XXVIII|Chapter XXVIII]]: Summer Colonies For City People\n\n{{Page data\n| type = Book\n| part-of = Three Acres and Liberty\n| keywords = agriculture, public domain, farming, food\n| ported-from = http://web.archive.org/web/20090926121103/http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/trcrs10.txt\n| license = Public domain\n| authors = Steve Solomon, Charles Aldarondo\n| description = Appropedia summarizes “Three Acres and Liberty,” highlighting simple farming methods and skills that help families work toward food security and self-sufficiency.\n}}\n\n[[Category:Agriculture]]\n[[Category:Public domain]]\n[[Category:Farming]]\n[[Category:Food]]\n[[Category:Publications]]"}