Reply #11: 10 Acres Enough. A great read with an anecdote about a German family who prospered doing just that

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Using their collected body waste, diluted to fertilize their fields before they had enough livestock to do the deed (as it were). They were an immigrant family who were basically starting from nothing as tenement farmers.

I read this book decades ago, lent it out (where it promptly was NEVER returned).

Here's an Amazon link but it's got a lot of terrific info even if it was published in 1864!!

http://www.amazon.com/Ten-Acres-Enough-Classic-Independent/dp/048643737X