# Home Acre

An audiobook by Edward P. Roe, read by LibriVox volunteers (5 h 49 min, English).

To tens of thousands of bread-winners in cities a country home is the dream of the future, the crown and reward of their life-toil. Increasing numbers are taking what would seem to be the wiser course, and are combining rural pleasures and advantages with their business…By means of such a suburban nook we can keep up our relations with Nature and all her varied and health-giving life... The area of land purchased will depend largely on the desires and purse of the buyer; but about one acre appears to satisfy the majority of people. This amount is not so great that the business man is burdened with care, nor is its limit so small that he is cramped and thwarted by line fences. If he can give to his bit of Eden but little thought and money, he will find that an acre can be so laid out as to entail comparatively small expense in either the one or the other… In this book I merely hope to make some useful suggestions and give practical advice—the result of experience, my own and others'—which the reader may carry out and modify according to his judgment. We will suppose that an acre has been bought; that it is comparatively level, with nothing of especial value upon it—in brief, that…

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## Chapters

1. CHAPTER I TREE-PLANTING - Part 1 (18:50): https://archive.org/download/homeacre_2408_librivox/homeacre_01_roe_64kb.mp3
2. CHAPTER I TREE-PLANTING - Part 2 (17:08): https://archive.org/download/homeacre_2408_librivox/homeacre_02_roe_64kb.mp3
3. CHAPTER II FRUIT-TREES AND GRASS – Part 1 (17:03): https://archive.org/download/homeacre_2408_librivox/homeacre_03_roe_64kb.mp3
4. CHAPTER II FRUIT-TREES AND GRASS – Part 2 (13:07): https://archive.org/download/homeacre_2408_librivox/homeacre_04_roe_64kb.mp3
5. CHAPTER III THE GARDEN – Part 1 (17:06): https://archive.org/download/homeacre_2408_librivox/homeacre_05_roe_64kb.mp3
6. CHAPTER III THE GARDEN – Part 2 (24:31): https://archive.org/download/homeacre_2408_librivox/homeacre_06_roe_64kb.mp3
7. CHAPTER IV THE VINEYARD AND ORCHARD – Part 1 (19:57): https://archive.org/download/homeacre_2408_librivox/homeacre_07_roe_64kb.mp3
8. CHAPTER IV THE VINEYARD AND ORCHARD – Part 2 (20:34): https://archive.org/download/homeacre_2408_librivox/homeacre_08_roe_64kb.mp3
9. CHAPTER V THE RASPBERRY - Part 1 (18:54): https://archive.org/download/homeacre_2408_librivox/homeacre_09_roe_64kb.mp3
10. CHAPTER V THE RASPBERRY - Part 2 (17:56): https://archive.org/download/homeacre_2408_librivox/homeacre_10_roe_64kb.mp3
11. CHAPTER VI THE CURRANT – Part 1 (18:19): https://archive.org/download/homeacre_2408_librivox/homeacre_11_roe_64kb.mp3
12. CHAPTER VI THE CURRANT – Part 2 (22:15): https://archive.org/download/homeacre_2408_librivox/homeacre_12_roe_64kb.mp3
13. CHAPTER VII STRAWBERRIES - Part 1 (18:00): https://archive.org/download/homeacre_2408_librivox/homeacre_13_roe_64kb.mp3
14. CHAPTER VII STRAWBERRIES - Part 2 (17:39): https://archive.org/download/homeacre_2408_librivox/homeacre_14_roe_64kb.mp3
15. CHAPTER VIII THE KITCHEN-GARDEN – Part 1 (20:38): https://archive.org/download/homeacre_2408_librivox/homeacre_15_roe_64kb.mp3
16. CHAPTER VIII THE KITCHEN-GARDEN – Part 2 (13:07): https://archive.org/download/homeacre_2408_librivox/homeacre_16_roe_64kb.mp3
17. CHAPTER IX THE KITCHEN-GARDEN (Concluded) – Part 1 (29:45): https://archive.org/download/homeacre_2408_librivox/homeacre_17_roe_64kb.mp3
18. CHAPTER IX THE KITCHEN-GARDEN (Concluded) – Part 2 (24:38): https://archive.org/download/homeacre_2408_librivox/homeacre_18_roe_64kb.mp3