Put your back garden to work!
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Vegetable growing is made easy with clear, sensible advice on the basics and plenty of inventive tips such as making hotbeds for growing lettuces through the winter. Fruit, nuts and herbs are all excellent value for busy gardeners and if you grow your own you will save money and enjoy better flavours.
You'll also learn to store and preserve the harvest; make apple juice, cheese and butter; plant your own herbal remedy border; keep chickens, bees, goats and pigs; and much more. Simply harvesting a few salad leaves, making your own bread or stocking the larder with a few jars of jam will bring the satisfying buzz of knowing that you're cutting your supermarket bill, reducing your carbon footprint and learning the practical skills of self-reliance.
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Attractive and user-friendly with clear, sensible advice.
This is a book that has plenty of useful and practical information for those people who are looking to live a more self-sufficient life.
If in these tough economic times you want to put your garden back to work, this practical guide offers clear and concise advice on a variety of practical skills from how to milk a goat to making fresh mozzarella.
I loved this book... She [the author] is to self-sufficiency what Nigel Slater is to good food. My only problem will be where to store the book, the ideal would be a copy in my garden shed and the other next to my bed.
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