Five Acres and Independence

{{short description|Book about self-sustainable small-scale farming}}

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Five Acres and Independence: A practical guide to the selection and management of the small farm is a book about self-sustainable small-scale farming, written by Maurice Grenville Kains.{{Cite book|last=Kains|first=M. G.|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/version/45419723|title=Five acres and independence : a practical guide to the selection and management of the small farm|date=1973|publisher=New York : Dover Publications|isbn=978-0-486-20974-6|edition=Revised and enlarged|language=English}} It was first published in 1935{{Cite book|last=Kains|first=M. G.|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009392020|title=Five acres and independence; a practical guide to the selection and management of the small farm|date=1935|publisher=Greenberg|location=New York}} during the Great Depression. It was written to provide practical information{{Cite web|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/a/m-g-kains-3/food-gardens-for-defense/|title=Book Reviews, Sites, Romance, Fantasy, Fiction|website=Kirkus Reviews|language=en|access-date=2020-03-10}} for people such as urban factory workers who had never worked on a farm.{{Cite book|last=Maher|first=Neil M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GAMSDAAAQBAJ&q=great+depression+Five+Acres+and+Independence&pg=PA30|title=Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement|date=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-530601-9|language=en}} The book contains 46 chapters on all types of farming practices.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BqnNAAAAMAAJ&q=%27Five+Acres+and+Independence%27+book+review&pg=RA1-PA88|title=Soil Conservation|date=1942|publisher=U. S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service, Division of Information.|language=en}}