Books: Self Sufficiency
Books: Self Sufficiency
  Getting Started in Permacultureby Ross and Jenny Mars CODE: BSS03 - $22.00 A book of practical activities which shows you how to build and design productive gardens. It outlines the step-by-step procedures for making herb fertilisers, compost, organic sprays for pest control and much, much more. Illustrated throughout. 24cm x 17cm - 96 pages.  Beekeeping - A Practical Guide by Richard E. Bonney CODE: BSS103 - $29.95 Whether you're a beginning beekeeper or one with a season or two of experience, Richard Bonney tells you how to keep bees, not just have them. This new book by the acclaimed author of Hive Management offers vital, up-to-date information about how to: • Acquire bees • Install a colony • Manage a hive • Take a crop of honey • Prevent and treat Varroa and treacheal mites • Learn about Africanized bees. 184 pages - 23cm x 15cm [1 Currently Available]  The Gardener's A-Z Guide to Growing Organic Food by Tanya L.K. Denckla CODE: BSS110 - $39.95 Why choose organic gardening over conventional methods when it requires greater commitment? This book will inspire you to take on the challenge, and the result will be delicious food from a garden thatis health for the children to play in and for the gardener to tend. 486 pages - 23cm x 19cm [1 Currently Available]  Herbal Tea Gardens by Marietta Marshall Marcin CODE: BSS112 - $29.95 Teas to soothe, teas to relieve, teas to rejuvenate - Herbal Tea Gardens contains everything you need to know to grow, blend, and brew healthful and delicious herbal teas. You'll find more than 100 tea recipes such as flu Brew, Double Green Digestive, and Wonen's Energizing Tonic, as well as 22 illustrated garden plans to help you customize your tea garden to suit your health needs and environment. 188 pages - 20cm x 20cm [1 Currently Available] |
 The Earth Gardener's Companion by Jackie French CODE: BSS01 - $19.95 Jackie French owns a flourishing organic farm in southern New South Wales. She practises what she preaches and has become one of Australia’s foremost experts on organic gardening, through her regular television and radio appearances, as well as her ‘Season By Season’ column in Earth Garden magazine. The Earth Gardener’s Companion - Fully-revised third edition is black and white, 80 pages and printed on plantation-grown paper. [2 currently available]  Chart: Natural Pest Control CODE: CHT001 - $5.95 A comprehensive list describing effective natural ways to rid your garden of pestsby companion planting without using harmful chemical products. Protection coated both sides. 330 x 480mm [2 Currently Available]  Keep Chickens! by Barbara Kilarski CODE: BSS113 - $29.95 Barbara Kilarski provides the detailed information every aspiring chickenkeeper needs to know. She identifies which breeds are happiest in small spaces; gives you simple instructions on feeding and caring for chickens; lists the equipment you'll need; discusses coop design, from the simple to the stylish; teaches you how to gather eggs; and explains how chickens can help fertilize your garden while eliminating weeds and garden pests. 150 pages - 15cm x 23cm. [1 Currently Available]  Chickens Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock by Judy Pangman CODE: BSS104 - $34.95 Bring your chickens home to roost in comfort and style! Whether you're keeping one hen in a small backyard or 1,000 hens in a large free-range pasture, you will find the perfect housing plan in this comprehensive book. 166 pages - 27.5cm x 21.5cm. [1 Currently Available] |
