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This is a paper written by Clare O'Grady Walshe on how imposing new legislation, in Ireland and overseas, is placing our food sovereignty and security in danger. Reduced to €3 due to slight shop damage (rusty staples).  -
Crop by crop guidelines to help you save seed for yourself. -
An authoritative guide to making your own body, skin and hair care preparations, complete with a glossary of commercial and natural cosmetic ingredients. -
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Designs to nurture our land and ourselves. -
In this unique book Aranya leads you through the design process from beginning to end, using clear explanations, flowcharts and diagrams. -
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This new edition of the best-selling Craft Cider Making is fully revised and updated. Packed with essential advice and information, it gives step-by-step instruction for small scale cider making. It retains the best of traditional practice but also draws on modern understanding of orcharding and fermentation science. Written by an award-winning cider maker, it guides beginners into the rewarding world of cider making and helps those with more experience expand their skills to enjoy the craft more fully. -
A really well-organised, approachable yet through guide to sourcing, planting and caring for fruit trees. It's a must for anyone considering anything from a couple of trees to an orchard. -
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Widely acclaimed as the gold standard for anyone that is interested in growing apple trees wisely and naturally. This is the new and expanded edition covering topics such as growing apples for your local region, orchard maintenance and harvesting. -
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The ideal guide for anyone wanting to start beekeeping and a revered reference book for experienced beekeepers. Information on all you need to know, including how to avoid swarms, plan requeening, or provide the colony with winter stores. Key information on Varroa and illustrated throughout. -
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This updated and revised edition of Wild Fermentation, now with full colour photos throughout, is sure to introduce a whole new generation to the flavours and health benefits of fermented foods. It features many brand-new recipes—including Strawberry Kvass, African Sorghum Beer, and Infinite Buckwheat Bread—and updates and refines original recipes reflecting the author’s ever-deepening knowledge of global food traditions that has influenced four-star chefs and home cooks alike. For Katz, his gateway to fermentation was sauerkraut. So open this book to find yours, and start a little food revolution right in your own kitchen. -
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A handy guide to natural remedies from your garden and store-cupboard for complaints ranging from coughs and colds to aches and pains that allows you to save money and avoid taking mass-produced chemicals on a regular basis. Fiann gives simple step-by-step instructions to make straightforward salves and ointments, teas, rinses and syrups that will fill the first-aid cupboard, as well as identifying plants that can be used straight away with no preparation required. Fiann's singular knowledge of the properties and uses of herbs, fruit and flowers from the garden makes fascinating reading, as well as having extensive practical applications. -
This revised and updated edition of Gaia's Garden features a new chapter on urban permaculture, designed especially for people in cities and suburbs who have very limited growing space. Whatever size garden you have to work with, you can apply basic permaculture principles to make it more diverse, more natural, more productive, and more beautiful. Best of all, once it’s established, an ecological garden will reduce or eliminate most of the backbreaking work that’s needed to maintain the typical lawn and garden. -
Smart gardeners know that soil is anything but an inert substance. Healthy soil is teeming with life — not just earthworms and insects, but a staggering multitude of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. When we use chemical fertilizers, we injure the microbial life that sustains healthy plants, and thus become increasingly dependent on an arsenal of artificial substances, many of them toxic to humans as well as other forms of life. But there is an alternative to this vicious circle: to garden in a way that strengthens, rather than destroys, the soil food web — the complex world of soil-dwelling organisms whose interactions create a nurturing environment for plants. By eschewing jargon and overly technical language, the authors make the benefits of cultivating the soil food web available to a wide audience, from devotees of organic gardening techniques to weekend gardeners who simply want to grow healthy, vigorous plants without resorting to chemicals. -
A comprehensive guide with over 1,250 detailed photographs of mushrooms and other fungi. -
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A practical guide to what to grow in your polytunnel all year round. Contains a handy month by month guide which tells you what to sow each month as well as listing the jobs to attend to. Also has a growing calendar section for fruits and vegetables you might like to grow in your tunnel, as well as a section on common pests and diseases. A great resource for beginner gardeners and experienced gardeners alike. -
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Richard Mabey's 50th Anniversary Edition, A must have book for all foragers, which covers 100 edible plants, berries, mushrooms, seaweed and shellfish, all beautifully illustrated. Advice on when to gather, what to pick and how to cook it. -
This book includes a wealth of information on wild Irish plants that can be gathered and eaten, including recipes, dishes and preparations, the history of their uses and value economically for future food security. -
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This comprehensive guide by Klaus Laitenberger covers many aspects of gardening in Ireland and a month by month guide. It includes many colour pictures and is well set out, detailing how to manage various types of soil, green manures and a comprehensive section on mistakes beginners make. -
For anyone who wants to grow a wide range of vegetables and fruit in a polytunnel or unheated greenhouse. -
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A clear and concise guidebook for growing a wide range of vegetables, both outdoors and with protection. -
An essential guide to growing and maintaining a self-sufficient garden. Incorporating both sustainability and practicality. It demonstrates the possibility to grow in a way that promotes biodiversity whilst producing a sizeable harvest. -
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With the help of this pocket sized guide, you can put a name to the wild flowers you see around you every day. -
Now recognised as one of the most influential books of the 20th century, Silent Spring exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides. -
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The Holistic Beauty Book is packed with safe, luxurious, organic, affordable skincare potions that you can make at home. -
The ultimate portable guide for quick and easy identification of birds. Covers the 230 birds most often found in Britan & Europe. -
The ultimate portable guide for quick and easy identification of garden birds. Features species descriptions of all the birds you are most likely to see in your garden, town, or park. -
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Everything you need to know about the Native Irish Honey Bee - from evolution to genetics and into the future with conservation and 'how to' sections from commercial beekeepers. -
Excellent reference swatches for exploring and identifying Ireland's native bugs and trees. Designed, printed, and published in Ireland. Price is per swatch. -
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A fully illustrated guide to therapeutic herbs and their uses, and how to make safe, effective herbal remedies at home. -
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Discover 100 common medicinal plants and how to use them for healing and self-care with this sumptuously illustrated guide. -
The ultimate portable guide to over 230 mushrooms and toadstools. Features colour photographs and illustrations, with information on size, habitat and when they can be found, and crucially whether they are edible or poisonous. -
On the Beara peninsula in West Cork, a temperate rainforest flourishes. This is the story of a forest, of the man with the vision behind it, and - as the burning issues of our time are considered - of the joys and benefits of wild nature. -
The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them. -
Discover the fascinating world of Ireland's diverse and astonishing collection of wildflowers. -
Fly into a world of birds, where eagles soar and starlings sing. You'll discover there's more to birds than meets the eye... -
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The Permaculture Guide to Reed Beds is a comprehensive overview of reed bed systems and treatment wetlands for household effluent treatment. Going from system selection and design to construction, planting and maintenance; this guide offers the reader a complete how-to manual for getting your own reed bed system up and running. -
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Septic Tank Options & Alternatives is a user-friendly guide through the maze of selecting an eco-friendly sewage treatment option for your home. With so many different treatment systems and technologies available, it can be a challenge to make the choice that really reflects your values and priorities. This book lists conventional and alternative sewage treatment systems and outlines the pros and cons of each in a straightforward and nontechnical way. -
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The ultimate portable guide to 240 of the most common butterfly and moth species in Ireland & Britain. Features species descriptions, colour photographs and illustrations throughout for quick and easy identification. -
The Ultimate portable guide to the most common species of tree in Ireland and Northern Europe. Includes species descriptions and information on bark, leaves, nuts and fruit. Features Colour illustrations throughout for quick and easy identification. -
A fascinating guide to help you identify 240 insects found across Europe. Features colour photographs and species descriptions, with information on size, habitat and range for quick and easy identification. -
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This handy guide features 240 British and Irish wild flowers. Species are illustrated with photographs and drawings, including details of size, habitat, geographical range and flowering season. -
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A guide to over 100 edible plants, berries, mushrooms, seaweed and shellfish - all beautifully illustrated. Advice on when to gather, what to pick and how to cook it. -
How the lives of wild honey bees offer vital lessons for saving the world’s managed bee colonies. -
The Forager's Garden by Anna Locke is a handy, accessible guide to creating your own paradise plot where you can forage throughout the year. -
Whether or not you are an experienced gardener, have used permaculture or grown organic produce before, this book offers valuable, easily accessible tips.
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