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Ten Acres Enough: A Farm for Free is a story of artful self-sufficiency and homesteading on a very small acreage combining market gardening centered on small fruit cultivation. This book answers the elemental question; how many acres do you need to have a successful farm, and how you might acquire it with little or no money? This book is for those looking to establish and succeed with a small farm, and for those large and mid-sized farmers who feel overwhelmed and under-achieved but nonetheless devoted to a working life in agriculture. This book is also for successful small farmers looking for ideas and for the language to help them make their case in the larger world. Combining the 2023 essay A Farm for Free by Lynn R. Miller and the 1864 classic Ten Acres Enough by Edmund Morris, this book provides perspective and technical information, along with formulas and hopefulness.

"Water in Plain Sight proves that our water woes aren't inevitable, and that the most sustainable path forward lies in partnering with nature rather than attempting to wrestle it into submission."--Ben Goldfarb, author of Eager and Crossings Water scarcity is on everyone's mind. Long taken for granted, water availability has become dependent on economics, politics, and people's food and lifestyle choices. But as anxiety mounts--and even as a swath of California farmland has been left fallow, and extremist groups worldwide exploit the desperation of people losing livelihoods to desertification--many are finding new routes to water security with key implications for food access, economic resilience, and climate change. Water does not perish, nor does it require millions of years to form as do fossil fuels. However water is always on the move and we must learn to work with its natural movement. In this timely, important book, Judith D. Schwartz presents a refreshing perspective on water that transcends zero-sum thinking. By allying with the water cycle, we can revive lush, productive landscapes, like the river in rural Zimbabwe that now flows miles further than it has in living memory thanks to restorative grazing; the fruit-filled food forest in Tucson, Arizona, grown by harvesting urban wastewater; or the mini-oasis in West Texas nourished by dew. Animated by stories from around the globe, Water In Plain Sight is an inspiring reminder that fixing the future of our drying planet involves understanding what makes natural systems thrive.