Books, Charts & Maps Sustainable Living
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Food for free
Free food from Nature's bounty

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...
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...

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...

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...
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...

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

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.


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...

The Illustrated Guide to Ducks and Geese and Other Domestic Fowl
Celia Lewis
160 pages. More details...
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...

Self Sufficiency Manual
Alison Candin
A complete, practical guide to living off the land. 256 pages. More details...
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...

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...
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...

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...
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...
Book of Rubbish Ideas
Tracey Smith
Useful tips to changing the way you handle your rubbish. 144 pages. More details...
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...

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...

You can save the planet
Rich Hough
A practical guide to saving the planet.
176 pages. More details...
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