• For beginner and intermediate beekeepers.
  • 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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    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.
  • The Hidden Life Of Trees

    13.99 (13.99 incl VAT)
    In The Hidden Life of Trees Peter Wohlleben makes the case that the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and even warn each other of impending dangers. Wohlleben also shares his deep love of woods and forests, explaining the amazing processes of life, death and regeneration he has observed in his woodland. A walk in the woods will never be the same again.   
  • Gathering Moss

    13.50 (13.50 incl VAT)
    Gathering Moss is a beautifully written mix of science and personal reflection that invites readers to explore and learn from the elegantly simple lives of mosses.
  • Plan, Plant and Maintain Fruit from Garden to Field
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    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.
  • An authoritative guide to making your own body, skin and hair care preparations, complete with a glossary of commercial and natural cosmetic ingredients.
  • Braiding Sweetgrass

    12.40 (12.40 incl VAT)
    Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass , Kimmerer brings these two ways of knowledge together. Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings - asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass - offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.   
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    Self Sufficiency – Home Brewing

    12.00 (12.00 incl VAT)
    More and more consumers are seeking a healthier, greener, and more self-reliant lifestyle. There is also a growing movement of people interested in quality, handcrafted, local products. These introductory handbooks for the fast-growing self-sufficiency movement are now being published in paperback for the first time, at a lower, attractive price point. They offer accessible, practical advice on what to do, how to do it better, and how to save money. In this timely book, John Parkes demystifies the brewing process and explains in easy-to-follow terms how anyone can produce delicious beer with the help of just some basic equipment and a few key skills. Those new to home brewing will love the easy-to-follow instructions and the detailed explanations of the brewing process and anyone already adept at home brewing will be delighted by the original recipes. Made without unnecessary chemicals and additives, the beers featured here will appeal to anyone seeking a more self-sufficient lifestyle.  
  • Self Sufficiency – Preserving

    12.00 (12.00 incl VAT)
    More and more consumers are seeking a healthier, greener, and more self-reliant lifestyle. There is also a growing movement of people interested in quality, handcrafted, local products. These introductory handbooks for the fast-growing self-sufficiency movement are now being published in paperback for the first time, at a lower, attractive price point. They offer accessible, practical advice on what to do, how to do it better, and how to save money.
    This book, your one-stop guide to successful preserving, contains information on ingredients, popular fruits and vegetables, sugars and cooking techniques, along with storage information and helpful hints and tips, followed by 60 delicious recipes.
  • Self Sufficiency – Hen Keeping

    12.00 (12.00 incl VAT)
    More and more people are becoming concerned about living a healthier land more environmentally-friendly lifestyle. Whether it's moving to the country and starting over on a whim or just making city-living a little simpler and easier, the "green" movement is changing the way people live their day-to-day lives. Self-Sufficiency handbooks are meant to help-offering advice on what to do, how to do it better, and how to save money as well. Hen keeping is becoming an increasingly popular component of the self-sufficient lifestyle. This authoritative handbook provides an introduction to the key aspects of raising chickens.   
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    Self Sufficiency – Breadmaking

    12.00 (12.00 incl VAT)
    More and more consumers are seeking a healthier, greener, and more self-reliant lifestyle. There is also a growing movement of people interested in quality, handcrafted, local products. These introductory handbooks for the fast-growing self-sufficiency movement are now being published in paperback for the first time, at a lower, attractive price point. They offer accessible, practical advice on what to do, how to do it better, and how to save money. Food writer and culinary stylist Kathryn Hawkins covers all the basics readers need to start baking bread, including essential ingredients and their role in bread making, useful equipment, basic techniques, and 40 delicious recipes.
  • Arranged in a directory of categories divided into wild plants, herbs, fruits, nuts, mushrooms, seaweeds and shellfish, this book has all of the information you need to forage for yourself. You'd be surprised at the bounty of wild food you can find practically on your doorstep: some native plants, some escapes from ancient gardens and all delicious. Most of these foods are within easy reach - however, you've got to know what you're looking for and where to go and when. Clear illustrations to help you identify a wholesome and natural food store, all for free. Hints on how to prepare and eat your foraged bounty are also included, along with advice on seasonality.
  • A general purpose durable glove with adjustable wrist strap. Made from nitrile coated polyamide. Hand wash in mild detergent.
  • Almost Home CD

    10.00 (10.00 incl VAT)
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    A clear and concise guidebook for growing a wide range of vegetables, both outdoors and with protection.
  • Best used for under sowing with tall crops. Fixes nitrogen, pest management, forage, small leaf. Very good for bees. Long-term green manure.  200g bag. 1KG covers 400-800m²
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