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Food for free

Free food from Nature's bounty


Food for Free

Food for Free

Richard Mabey

When first published in 1972, this title became an instant success. Helps you identify 240 wild foods, including fungi, seaweed, shellfish, roots, vegetables, herbs, spices, flowers, fruits and nuts. 272 pages. More details...

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(LxWxD) 19.1 x 11.2 x 1.8 cm Softback £12.99

 

The Forager's Kitchen

Fiona Bird

Rather than shopping in the aisles of your grocery store, head off to the great outdoors and you will be amazed by the sheer quantity of food that available for free. 192 pages. More details...

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Hardback £16.99 £14.99

The Encyclopedia of Fungi of Britain and Europe

The Encyclopedia of Fungi of Britain and Europe

Michael Jordan

384 pages. More details...

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Baumber Park £18.99 £16.99

 

Hedgrow (River Cottage Handbook No.7)

John Wright

Practical guide to gathering plants from hedgerow and wood, meadows and heath. 256 pages.

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Hardback £14.99 £11.99

 

Mushrooming with Confidence

Alexander Schwab

Shows you how to positively identify the best mushrooms. "Edible" in conventional mushroom books means "not poisonous" and usually also "tasteless". 'Mushrooming With Confidence' extends the positive method to the best mushrooms with gills. 128 pages. More details...

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Hardback £16.99

Wild Cooking: Recipes, tips and other improvisations

Wild Cooking: Recipes, tips and other improvisations

Richard Mabey

Learn the art of culinary busking with a selection of seasonal recipes, tips and humerous prose that focuses on the delights of foraging for and cooking home grown staples. 224 pages. More details...

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(LxWxD) 19.8 x 12.8 x 1.5 cm Softback £8.99 £6.99

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Gardening

 

Growing Food in Small Gardens

Barbara Segall

An introduction to self-sufficient gardening. Packed with practical advice on getting started, what to sow and when, planning garden space and natural pest and disease control. 112 pages. More details...

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(LxWxD) 23.5 x 21 x 0.9 cm Softback £7.99

Minding my Peas and Cucumbers

Minding my Peas and Cucumbers

Kay Sexton

Quirky tales of allotment life. 216 pages. More details...

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Hardback £9.99

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Cooking, Beekeeping, etc.

Books on beekeeping, cheese-making, keeping livestock (hens, etc) and preserving and cooking seasonal foods.


Beekeeper's Bible

Beekeeper's Bible

Published by HarperCollins

Stunning illustrations and step-by-step photography. This guide relates to every aspect of beekeeping, from safe hive management to culinary, medicinal, cosmetic and domestic uses of honey, beeswax and pollen. Also contains a wealth of history and trivia and delicious recipes for using honey. 412 pages.

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Hardback £30.00 £22.99

BBKA Guide to Beekeeping

BBKA Guide to Beekeeping

Ivor Davis & Roger Cullum-Kenyon

Covers all aspect of beekeeping for beginners, from choosing a hive to collecting honey and keeping bees healthy. 182 pages.

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Softback £16.99 £13.99

Beekeeping

Beekeeping

Joanna Ryde

A practical guide to beekeeping including bee management, tools of the trade and harvesting. Includes delicious honey recipes. 128 pages. More details...

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(LxWxD) 21 x 15 x 1 cm Softback £7.99

 

Self-sufficient Cheese Making

Rita Ash

128 pages. More details...

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(LxWxD) 21 x 15 x 1 cm Softback £7.99

The Illustrated Guide to Ducks and Geese and Other Domestic Fowl

The Illustrated Guide to Ducks and Geese and Other Domestic Fowl

Celia Lewis

160 pages. More details...

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Hardback £16.99 £14.99

 

Self-sufficiency Hen keeping

Mike Hatcher

128 pages. More details...

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(LxWxD) 21 x 15 x 1 cm Softback £7.99

 

Self-sufficiency Preserving

Carol Wilson

128 pages. More details...

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(LxWxD) 21 x 15 x 1 cm Softback £7.99

 

Rambler's Rewards: Cooking from Coast to Coast

Elizabeth Guy & Pat Kirkbride

A delightful cookery book featuring produce selected from the coast to coast route. 192 pages. More details...

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Hardback £20.00 £16.50

Self Sufficiency Manual

Self Sufficiency Manual

Alison Candin

A complete, practical guide to living off the land. 256 pages. More details...

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(LxWxD) 23.5 x 19.3 x 2.5 cm Softback £14.99 £12.99

 

Self-Sufficiency Handbook, The

Alan & Gill Bridgewater

An inspirational and practical guide for anyone considering a shift to the self-sufficiency lifestyle. Offers advice on keeping animals, solar and wind energy and organic gardening. 192 pages. More details...

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(LxWxD) 25 x 17.5 x 2.7 cm Softback £12.99

Wild Cooking: Recipes, tips and other improvisations

Wild Cooking: Recipes, tips and other improvisations

Richard Mabey

Learn the art of culinary busking with a selection of seasonal recipes, tips and humerous prose that focuses on the delights of foraging for and cooking home grown staples. 224 pages. More details...

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(LxWxD) 19.8 x 12.8 x 1.5 cm Softback £8.99 £6.99

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Green Travel

 

Special Places to Stay: Green Europe

Kate Shepherd, ed.

Discover special places that go the extra mile to provide responsible holidays. 224 pages. More details...

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(LxWxD) 22 x 13 x 1.5 cm Softback £11.99

The Rough Guide to Green Living

The Rough Guide to Green Living

Duncan Clark

A fact-filled, user-friendly guide to living a low-carbon, eco-friendly life. 336 pages. More details...

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Softback £11.99

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Carbon Counting & Climate Change

 

The Big Earth Book

James Bruges

We all know the Earth is in crisis. . This book explores environmental, economic and social ideas to save our planet. 288 pages. More details...

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(LxWxD) 26.2 x 19.6 x 1.9 cm Softback £12.99

 

Book of Rubbish Ideas

Tracey Smith

Useful tips to changing the way you handle your rubbish. 144 pages. More details...

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(LxWxD) 19.8 x 12.8 x 1.1 cm Softback £6.99

 

Silent Spring

Rachel Carson

One of the most influential books of the twentieth century on environmental conservation, Silent Spring, exposes the decline of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides. 323 pages. More details...

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Softback £9.99

Silent Spring Revisited

Silent Spring Revisited

Conor Mark Jameson

Fifty years after the publication of the seminal Silent Spring, Conor Mark Jameson reflects on Rachel Carson's legacy and ask the question - are we still silencing the spring? 288 pages. More details...

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You can save the planet

You can save the planet

Rich Hough

A practical guide to saving the planet.

  • all the facts on important issues from Carbon footprints to Fairtrade & food miles
  • practical advice on making a difference every day
  • includes a six-month ethical living diary

176 pages. More details...

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(LxW) 21 x 14.8 cm Softback £8.99

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