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GROW HERBS by JEKKA McVICAR For more Organic Gardening and Permaculture books click here Hardcover book with dustjacket 256 pages. Published 2010 by DK Books. Superb full-colour photography throughout. An inspiring guide to growing and using herbs. Breathe new life into your herb garden with expert Jekka McVicar. Jekka takes you through every stage of organic herb-growing from sowing to harvesting the healthiest most fragrant crops. She also shares her brilliant ideas for using herbs in recipes in the home and for beauty and healty. Grow Herbs puts Jekka's expertise into a fresh up-to-date format for keen organic gardeners and herb enthusiasts. Packed with gorgeous photographs Grow Herbs cov here
NATURAL CONTROL of GARDEN PESTS Completely revised 2nd Edition by JACKIE FRENCH For more Organic Gardening and Permaculture books click here New softcover book 190 pages. Published 2007 measures 15 x 24cm. If your impossible great-aunt Gladys planned to visit you you wouldn't get out the arsenic. You'd find some way of discouraging her before she came. Jackie French uses the same approach to garden pests countering those who think carpet bombing with toxic chemicals is the only solution. Jackie is a life-giver not a death-dealer and her approach to the plants and creatures that inhabit gardens is wise balanced and practical. Concentrate on growing crops well and you'll find that you have ver full details
The BACKYARD HOMSTEAD edited by CARLEEN MADIGAN See other books on Permaculture Sustainability and Self-Sufficiency click here New softcover book 368 pages. Published 2009 Produce all the food you need on just a quarter of an acre! With just a quarter of an acre of land you can feed a family of four with fresh organic food year-round. This comprehensive guide to self-sufficiency gives you all the information you need to grow and preserve a variety of vegetables fruits herbs nuts and grains; raise chickens for eggs and meat; raise cows sheep and goats for meat or milk; raise pigs and rabbits; and keep honey bees. Simple instructions make it easy to enjoy canned frozen dried and pickled produc more data
ONE MAN'S WILDERNESS An Alaskan Odyssey by Sam Keith from the journals and photographs of Richard Proenneke See other biographies click here New softcover book 224 pages published 2009. Includes 32 pages of superb colour photos To live in a pristine land unchanged by man ... to roam a wilderness through which few other humans had passed ... to choose an idyllic site cut trees and build a log cabin ... to be a self-sufficient craftsman making what is needed from materials available ... to be not at odds with the world but content with one's own thoughts and company ... Thousands have had such dreams but Richard Proenneke lived them. He found a place built a cabin and stayed to become part of information
THE CHRISTMAS BOOK Editor-in-Chief: Sheherazade Goldsmith See other Christmas books click here New hardcover book 352 pages. Published 2008. Beautiful full-colour photos throughout. Discover a simpler greener Christmas with hand-crafted gifts and cards natural decorations and traditional recipes. Escape the modern-day commercial Christmas and enjoy a simpler greener and craftier way of celebrating. Decorate the Christmas tree with homemade gingerbread men craft a simple wreath from fallen leaves make gift labels and cards from vintage fabrics and fill hampers with locally sourced organic food. Sheherazade Goldsmith and a team of crafters give you over 80-90 wonderful ideas and projects for a more here.....
You Can Have Your PERMACULTURE and Eat It Too by ROBIN CLAYFIELD For more Permaculture books by Bill Mollison and others please click here Used comb-bound self-published softcover in very good condition 158 pages. Signed and inscribed 'To Sarah and Steve' by the author on the first page. You Can Have Your Permaculture and Eat It Too is a Permaculture book for gardeners and cooks. A cookbook for gardeners. A gardening book for cooks. A reference book on many topics including Edible Flowers Healthy Food Weeds and abundant plants Garden cosmetics Conpanion planting Bush Tucker - to see more Bush tucker books click here Kitchen crafts Garden gifts and income earners Self-sufficiency Plus Garden link here
LAWNS INTO LUNCH by JILL FINNANE photographs by Huni Bolliger For more Permaculture books by Bill Mollison and others click here Used softcover book in very good condition 144 pages published 2005 Lawns into Lunch is about 22 people who discovered how to grow food in the city. Although they come from all walks of life they were all looking for the same thing: a way to produce nutritious organic food from every centimetre of soil they could lay their hands on. reading about how these people created their gardens is like sitting down and chatting with a friend. Some of thses gardeners live in units some in terraces with tiny narrow backyards and their accommodation is often rented. Refusing to extra
GROW FRUIT by ALAN BUCKINGHAM For more Organic Gardening and Permaculture books click here Hardcover book with dustjacket 352 pages. Published 2010 by DK Books. Superb full-colour photography throughout. How to grow delicious fruit in your very own garden patio or balcony. Fantastic fruit you can grow yourself. From ripe berries bursting with juice to apples plums or cherries it's easy to grow your own fruit no matter how little room you have. Follow foolproof step-by-step advice and all the practical know-how you need to fill your fruit bowl with home-grown produce. Choose from more than 50 different crops - from apples to strawberries and walnuts to whitecurrants. Use the quick-reference y considerably more details
THE SMALL EDIBLE GARDEN Growing organic fruit and vegetables at home by DIANA ANTHONY For more Organic Gardening and Permaculture books click here New small softcover book 64 pages. Published 2008. A guide for Australia and New Zealand. Fresh food straight from your own garden is unbeatable. Whatever the size of your garden this book provides 'what' 'where' 'when' and 'how' advice on the most efficient way to use a limited space to grow healthy organic produce. With colour photographs throughout The Small Edible Garden gives details and tips on planting growing and caring for a wide variety of vegetables herbs and fruit with the best available varieties for each listed by name. Includes info extra info
JACKIE FRENCH'S GUIDE to COMPANION PLANTING in Australia and New Zealand by JACKIE FRENCH For more Organic Gardening and Permaculture books click here New softcover book 125 pages. Published 2007 measures 18 x 11cm. In this handy little pocket-sized book Jackie shows how to apply companion planting principles to your vegetables fruits flowers and weeds so they’ll work to make your garden greener more productive full of birds and free of pests. Chapters include: Companion planting that works Developing your own companion planting Companion planting for vegetables Companion planting for fruit Companion planting for flowers Weeds and some problem plants Diagnostic chart of common pests Ab come here
GROW YOUR OWN DRUGS A Year with JAMES WONG See other Self Sufficiency books click here New large hardcover book 224 pages. First published in 2010. James Wong is back putting his ethnobotanical expertise to use once again with over 100 new natural cheap and easy remedies showing you and those around you how to have a fantastically healthy year. Whether you're fed up with your hormones worried about your baby's nappy rash your partner is prone to a sore-throat or leg-waxing is proving just too expensive to maintain Grow Your Own Drugs: A Year With James Wong offers over 100 great new remedies to soothe all manner of common conditions and beauty problems - whenever they might flare up. James s additional info.....
THE TIGHTWAD GAZETTE Promoting Thrift as a Viable Lifestyle Alternative by AMY DACYCZYN See other books on frugal living money-saving recipes and budgeting click here New softcover book first published in 1999. 960 pages. At last - the long-awaited complete compendium of tightwad tips for fabulous frugal living! In a newsletter published from May 1990 to December 1996 as well as in three enormously successful books Amy Dacyczyn established herself as the expert of economy. Now The Complete Tightwad Gazette brings together all of her best ideas and thriftiest thinking into one volume along with new articles never published before in book format. Dacyczyn describes this collection as "the book full details
THE EDIBLE BALCONY How to grow fresh food in a small space plus 60 inspiring recipes by LIZ WRIGHT See other books on Permaculture Sustainability and Self-Sufficiency click here New softcover book 220 pages. Published 2011. Beautiful full-colour photography by Alan Benson Join popular media personality and foodie Indira Naidoo as she embarks on a mission to transform her tiny thirteen-floor balcony into a bountiful kitchen garden. She soon establishes a productive urban oasis that takes just ten minutes a day to maintain yet provides her with an ever-changing selection of fresh fruit herbs and vegetables. Featuring 60 delicious recipes showcasing her home-grown produce plus plenty of practic more.....
Self Sufficiency: HEN KEEPING by MIKE HATCHER See other books on keeping chickens and other poultry click here New softcover book 128 pages published 2009. Measures 21 x 15cm. Self-sufficiency and organic living have never been more prominent than in recent years. Keeping hens is becoming increasingly popular and is one way of ensuring you have fresh produce at your fingertips. This authoritative book provides an introduction to some of the key aspects of keeping your own chickens and benefiting from the produce. You don't need a large garden to keep poultry and an average family only needs a couple of hens to keep them well stocked in fresh eggs all year round. The set-up costs are minimal more info
HONEY BEE HOBBYIST The Care and Keeping of Bees by NORMAN GARY PhD For more Organic Gardening and Permaculture books click here New softcover book 176 pages measures 21 x 28cm published 2010 lots of full-colour photos. Bee keeping isn't just for the professional farmer - bees can be kept in any situation from the simple backyard patio and garden to large expanses of farm land. This comprehensive and attractive beekeeping guide from Hobby Farm Press the same people who bring you Hobby Farms and Hobby Farm Home magazine Beekeeping takes readers from finding their bees housing them collecting honey and using their produce for pleasure and possible profit. This colorful book including entertaini more information.....
GROW VEGETABLES by ALAN BUCKINGHAM For more Organic Gardening and Permaculture books click here Hardcover book with dustjacket 352 pages. Published 2008 by DK Books. Superb full-colour photography throughout. How to grow fruit and veg all year round in your very own vegie patch. Crunchy young carrots crisp lettuce and the sweetest tomatoes could be there for the picking in your own garden. Growing your own food means savings and deliciously healthy meals. This book shows just how easy it is to manage your garden month-by-month to harvest fresh produce all year round. Learn what to sow when to sow it and how to care for your drops. It couldn't be easier. Alan Buckingham shows now with a littl more info
GROW YOUR OWN DRUGS Easy recipes for natural remedies and beauty fixes by JAMES WONG See other Self Sufficiency books click here New large hardcover book 224 pages. First published in 2009. Whether you're struggling with insomnia the kids have eczema or your partner is feeling under the weather this book could have the answer. With easy recipes ethnobotanist James Wong shows how to make simple creams salves teas and much much more from the stuff growing in your window box the local garden centre or in the hedgerows. Using the flowers fruit roots trees vegetables and herbs that are all around us James provides preparations to help relieve a whole range of common conditions including acne anxi details
FABULOUS FOOD from EVERY SMALL GARDEN by MARY HORSFALL For more Organic Gardening and Permaculture books click here New softcover book 222 pages. Published 2009 by CSIRO Publishing. Fabulous Food from Every Small Garden shows how to grow food at home in even the smallest of spaces. It explores the reasons for growing your own food including the many potential benefits such as improved taste freshness and nutrition. Many types of food are covered including vegetables fruits herbs bush tucker plants and edible flowers. The book provides detailed instructions for successfully growing plants from seeds and explains the use of organic pest and weed control and efficient watering methods. In addit considerably more details
THE HARD TIMES HANDBOOK A practical guide to help you do more with less by Keith and Irene Smith See other books on frugal living money-saving recipes and budgeting click here Used softcover book in good condition. No writing marks tears loose or missing pages. Published 1990. 236 pages. The Hard Times Handbook will change your life. Here is a wealth of practical information and advice to help you become more self-reliant and less dependent on traditional sources of food clothing and energy. It includes 180 practical household hints including recycling cleaners repairs and medicines 150 recipes for cheap healthy meals including vegetarian dishes and cheap meat cuts How to manage your supplie here
BEST OF JACKIE FRENCH A practical guide to everything from Aphids to Zucchini Chocolate Cake For more Organic Gardening and Permaculture books click here New large softcover book 378 pages. First published in 2000. Over the course of 30+ years' inventive gardening Jackie French has discovered the secret to combining fun and usefulness in your garden. In The Best of Jackie French: A Practical Guide to Everything from Aphids to Zucchini Chocolate Cake Jackie shows you how to: Enjoy a thriving garden with minimal time - and money Grow and consume a stunning array of vegetables herbs and fruit plus your own tea coffee and edible flowers Find natural solutions for all your house and garden proble click here
FOOD NOT LAWNS How to Turn Your Yard into a Garden and Your Neighbourhood into a Community by H.C. FLORES foreword by Toby Hemenway For more Permaculture books by Bill Mollison and others click here New softcover book 340 pages published 2006 Creativity fulfillment connection revolution - it all begins when we get our hands in the dirt. Food Not Lawns combines practical wisdom on ecological design and community-building with a fresh green perspective on an age-old subject. Activist and urban gardener Heather Flores shares her nine-step permaculture design to help farmsteaders and city dwellers alike build fertile soil promote biodiversity and increase natural habitat in their own "paradise g come here
THE MULCH BOOK A handy A-Z guide to using mulch in your garden by MARY HORSFALL For more Organic Gardening and Permaculture books click here New small softcover book 108 pages. Published 2011. Mulch is truly miraculous stuff! It saves water protects and enriches the soil suppresses weeds promotes healthy plants and to top it off much of it is free. The range of materials is enormous and many of them are just lying around begging to be used. Updated and revised The Mulch Book tells you all about mulch: what it is where to get it how to use it and how it works. The main part of the book is the A-Z of Mulch which describes many different mulch materials and their uses together with mulching tec considerably more details
ORGANIC VEGETABLE GARDENING Fully revised edition of the bestselling kitchen garden classic by ANNETTE McFARLANE For more Organic Gardening and Permaculture books click here New softcover book 256 pages. First published 2001 this revised edition published 2010. A completely revised and updated edition of this bestselling classic with new material on heirloom and exotic vegetables mushrooms edible flowers and weeds container gardening and seed saving. In a world where mass-produced food often lacks taste and freshness more and more people are growing their own vegetables. This new greatly expanded edition of Annette McFarlane’s gardening classic offers gardeners an authoritative and com details
EARTH USER'S GUIDE TO PERMACULTURE by ROSEMARY MORROW illustrated by ROB ALLSOP For more Permaculture books by Bill Mollison and others click here New large softcover book 152 pages. First edition published 1997 Permaculture is both a philosophy and a practical approach to land use based on three tenets: care for people care for the Earth and redistributing everything surplus to one's needs. As such this straightforward and simple approach to achieving self-sufficiency while nurturing and restoring the Earth can be practised by everyone. Permaculture is a way to repair and restore the Earth by analysis and design. It takes natural systems as a model draws on many disciplines and involves con considerably more details
THE EDIBLE FRONT YARD The Mow-Less Grow-More Plan for a Beautiful Bountiful Garden by IVETTE SOLER For more Permaculture books by Bill Mollison and others click here New large softcover book 214 pages published 2011 Put the fruits of your labours front and center! With plentiful sun open space and an audience of appreciative passersby the front yard has all the ingredients for a beautiful and bountiful garden. Let famed blogger and garden designer Ivette Soler show you how to make over all or part of that space - too often simply unused or purely decorative - into a gorgeously designed oasis of fruits and vegetables that will be the envy of the neighborhood. The Edible Front Yard combines th information
LIVING THE GOOD LIFE How one family changed their world from their own backyard by LINDA COCKBURN See other books on Permaculture Sustainability and Self-Sufficiency click here New softcover book 276 pages. Published 2008. Simple strategies for sustainable living Imagine not needing money. Not for bills - there are none. Not for food - you grow or make it all yourself. Not for transport - you have a bike. Fed up with consumerism and determined to make a difference Linda Trevor and son Caleb set themselves the challenge of becoming completely self-sufficient. They endured six months without spending a dollar not on bills transport or groceries. Through drought plagues of fruit flies and the r considerably more details
SELF SUFFICIENCY A practical guide for modern living by LIZ WRIGHT See other books on Permaculture Sustainability and Self-Sufficiency click here New hardcover book 320 pages. Published 2010. Beautiful full-colour photos throughout This invaluable reference book provides comprehensive guidance on how to live closer to nature and to living by your own means working with nature and reducing your carbon footprint and living costs. Whether you simply want to grow your own vegetables - there are details on how to grow over 100 vegetables fruits and herbs - or intend to go the whole hog and relocate to the county Self-Sufficiency will expertly guide you through every aspect of self-sufficiency for details
Self Sufficiency: BEEKEEPING by JOANNA RYDE See other books on keeping bees click here New softcover book 128 pages published 2009. Measures 21 x 15cm. As sustainability and organic living become increasingly popular so does a desire to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle. This timely book will help you to achieve self-sufficiency and make beekeeping a reality. Beekeeping is about management control and learning to understand the honey bee. It can also become an extremely enjoyable and sociable pastime - visiting others' hives and picking up vital hints and tips is all part of the fun - and farming and eating honey that your own bees have produced is a pure delight. Joanna Ryde brings her more information.....
Self Sufficiency: PRESERVING by CAROL WILSON See other Preserving books click here New softcover book 128 pages published 2009. Measures 21 x 15cm. Preserving fruits and vegetables is a great way to turn seasonal home-grown or local produce into delicious treats that can be enjoyed all year round. Most fruits and vegetables can be used for preserving and what better and more satisfying way to use up home-grown or local produce than to puree pickle bottle or salt it and consume it throughout the year! There are several different preserving methods and all give delicious results. Jams jellies fruit butters and curds bottled fruits chutneys pickles and salted vegetables are all practical and ec more.....
SURVIVING IN THE EIGHTIES Self-sufficiency in the city and in the country by Michael Boddy and Richard Beckett illustrated by Janet Dawson Boddy See books on Permaculture and Sustainability click here Used softcover book in very good condition. Name and inscription on first page no other writing marks tears loose or missing pages published 1980. 196 pages. If you're living in the city and would like your garden however tiny to give you fresh and inexpensive fruit and vegetables or if you're moving to the country and would like to run a small productive farm Surviving in the Eighties is indispensible. Many of us want to achieve some small degree of self-sufficiency if only to provide a pleasa further data
Self-sufficiency refers to the state of not requiring any outside aid, support, or interaction, for survival; it is therefore a type of personal or collective autonomy. On a large scale, a totally self-sufficient economy that does not trade with the outside world is called an autarky.
The term self-sufficiency is usually applied to varieties of sustainable living in which nothing is consumed outside of what is produced by the self-sufficient individuals. Examples of attempts at self-sufficiency in North America include voluntary simplicity, homesteading, survivalism, and the back-to-the-land movement.
According to Michael Allaby and Peter Bunyard, “there is nothing really new in the search of “self-sufficiency”. The pioneers who first colonized the New World, Australia, and parts of Africa were self-sufficient because they had to be and, in this context, the term suggests a kind of rugged independence associated with mastering a new and rather hostile environment.”
Practices that enable or aid self-sufficiency include autonomous building, permaculture, sustainable agriculture, and renewable energy.
The term is also applied to limited forms of self-sufficiency, for example growing one's own food or becoming economically independent of state subsidies.