Growing Self-Sufficiency: How to enjoy the satisfaction and fulfilment of producing your own fruit, vegetables, eggs and meat
Autor Sally Nexen Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 sep 2017
Growing Self-Sufficiency is a practical and inspirational guide for both the beginner and the experienced gardener. It explains how you can provide food for yourself and your family, whether you have just a small balcony or backyard, a large garden, or a homestead or smallholding.
This brilliant guide shows you how to grow and enjoy fresh and tasty vegetables and fruit, as well as how to produce your own chicken, eggs and lamb, guaranteed free from harmful chemicals and additives. It also contains helpful tips on how to preserve your produce - from freezing and drying to making jams, chutneys and pickles. There are also recipes for making juices, cordials, cider, wine and liqueurs, and how to grow medicinal herbs and make your own herbal remedies
Provide more food from your plot than you ever thought possible, and become more self-sufficient with this beautiful book.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780857843173
ISBN-10: 0857843176
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: Colour photos throughout
Dimensiuni: 204 x 254 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.84 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Green Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0857843176
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: Colour photos throughout
Dimensiuni: 204 x 254 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.84 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Green Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Introduction
PART ONE: Sowing the seed
Chapter 1: Grow the easy hits
Chapter 2: Start a three-pot veg plot
Chapter 3: Make a herb garden
Chapter 4: Plant a mini orchard
Chapter 5: Eat with the seasons
Chapter 6: The good growing guide
PART TWO: Digging deeper
Chapter 7: Find more space
Chapter 8: Save your own seed
Chapter 9: Preserve your produce
Chapter 10: Grow your own drinks
Chapter 11: The backyard medicine cabinet
Chapter 12: The home-grown garden shed
Chapter 13: Supply your own eggs and meat
Resources
Index
PART ONE: Sowing the seed
Chapter 1: Grow the easy hits
Chapter 2: Start a three-pot veg plot
Chapter 3: Make a herb garden
Chapter 4: Plant a mini orchard
Chapter 5: Eat with the seasons
Chapter 6: The good growing guide
PART TWO: Digging deeper
Chapter 7: Find more space
Chapter 8: Save your own seed
Chapter 9: Preserve your produce
Chapter 10: Grow your own drinks
Chapter 11: The backyard medicine cabinet
Chapter 12: The home-grown garden shed
Chapter 13: Supply your own eggs and meat
Resources
Index
Recenzii
These pages are rich in personal experience and enthusiasm
Growing Self Sufficiency by Sally Nex is an ideal present for anyone thinking about growing their own fruit and vegetables... Sally is enthusiastic and motivating through each chapter, and she knows what she's talking about, moving on from a tiny handkerchief London garden to keeping chickens and sheep and acres of land. An enjoyable read, and I've picked up some useful tips. This book could be the springboard for someone to dive into a life of self sufficiency!
Producing your own food is empowering, and Growing Self-Sufficiency sums up the notion of 'practical self-sufficiency' and the independence it provides.
There can be no better person than Sally Nex to help growers take the next step towards self-sufficiency . She writes with a clarity, enthusiasm and humour that pulls the reader along with her. If you weren't thinking of upping your vegetable-growing game before picking up this book, you soon will be.
For anyone with an interest in gardening and self-sufficiency wanting to make the first step. Easy to read, the book is full of practical information.
Growing Self Sufficiency by Sally Nex is an ideal present for anyone thinking about growing their own fruit and vegetables... Sally is enthusiastic and motivating through each chapter, and she knows what she's talking about, moving on from a tiny handkerchief London garden to keeping chickens and sheep and acres of land. An enjoyable read, and I've picked up some useful tips. This book could be the springboard for someone to dive into a life of self sufficiency!
Producing your own food is empowering, and Growing Self-Sufficiency sums up the notion of 'practical self-sufficiency' and the independence it provides.
There can be no better person than Sally Nex to help growers take the next step towards self-sufficiency . She writes with a clarity, enthusiasm and humour that pulls the reader along with her. If you weren't thinking of upping your vegetable-growing game before picking up this book, you soon will be.
For anyone with an interest in gardening and self-sufficiency wanting to make the first step. Easy to read, the book is full of practical information.