Three Acres and Liberty: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Three Acres and Liberty, credited to Bolton Hall, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. It (this book) shows what is needed for a city man or woman to support a family on the proceeds of a little bit of land; it shows how in truth, as the old Book prophesied, the earth brings forth abundantly after its kind to satisfy the desire of every living thing. It is not necessary to bury oneself in the country, nor, with the new facilities of transportation, need we, unless we wish to, pay the extravagant rents and enormous cost of living in the city. A little bit of land near the town or the city can be rented or bought on easy terms; and merchandising will bring one to the city often enough. Neither is hard labor needed; but it is to work alone that the earth yields her increase, and if, although unskilled, we would succeed in gardening, we must attend constantly and intelligently to the home acres. - Summary by Bolton Hall

Recording facts

• Recording title: Three Acres and Liberty
• Author credits: Bolton Hall
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 9:15:20

Catalogue topics

• self-sufficiency
• greenhouse
• homesteading
• living off the land
• hobby farn
• growing vegetables
• ktichen garden
• growing your own food

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 00 - Forward — 23:25
2. 01 - Chapter I: Making a Living—Where and How — 20:01
3. 02 - Chapter II: Present Conditions — 12:09
4. 03 - Chapter III: How To Buy The Farm — 10:17
5. 04 - Chapter IV: Vacant City Lot Cultivation — 23:45
6. 05 - Chapter V: Results To Be Expected — 34:17
7. 06 - Chapter VI: What An Acre May Produce — 26:29
8. 07 - Chapter VII: Some Methods — 15:22
9. 08 - Chapter VIII: The Kitchen Garden — 11:53
10. 09 - Chapter IX: Tools And Equipment — 14:55
11. 10 - Chapter X: Advantages From Capital — 31:37
12. 11 - Chapter XI: Hotbeds And Greenhouses — 18:36
13. 12 - Chapter XII: Other Uses Of Land — 24:44
14. 13 - Chapter XIII: Fruits — 21:24
15. 14 - Chapter XIV: Flowers — 14:09
16. 15 - Chapter XV: Drug Plants — 15:12
17. 16 - Chapter XVI: Novel Live Stock — 20:51
18. 17 - Chapter XVII: Where To Go — 38:53
19. 18 - Chapter XVIII: Clearing The Land — 19:48
20. 19 - Chapter XIX: How To Build — 13:53
21. 20 - Chapter XX: Back To The Land — 15:20
22. 21 - Chapter XXI: Coming Profession For Boys — 23:14
23. 22 - Chapter XXII: The Wood Lot — 9:54
24. 23 - Chapter XXIII: Some Practical Experiments — 14:28

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