A practical handbook offering step-by-step guidance for intensive small-scale farming and backyard market gardening. It explains choosing and preparing land, improving soil fertility and tilth, seed selection and basic plant breeding, and meeting plant needs for light, water, and nutrients. Chapters cover rotation, weed, pest and disease control, re-soiling and humus management, drainage, and cellar or sheltered growing, plus layout, buildings, and time-saving work methods. Emphasizes learning by doing, prudent management, local marketing, and cooperation while warning against speculative promises and encouraging realistic, profitable cultivation on limited plots.