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- The bookâs mission is to tell you how you can produce the following on just a quarter acre of land:
- 1,400 eggs
- 50 pounds of wheat
- 60 pounds of fruit
- 2,000 pounds of vegetables
- 280 pounds of pork
- 75 pounds of nuts
- Home-Grown Grains
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