I Can Do That! Woodworking Projects: 48 quality furniture projects that require minimal experience and tools by Popular Woodworking Editors
$34.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
Beginning woodworkers are constantly stymied by the apparent need for thousands of dollars worth of tools to start their hobby. Once they have the tool they face a learning curve to understand how to use the tool. The next problem is finding wood to build the projects. Not everyone has a lumberyard near ...Show more
365 Essential Survival Skills: Knowledge That Will Keep You Alive by Creek Stewart
$34.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
Learn. Practice. Prepare. Survive. Survival situations can happen when least expected. The best defense is knowledge and confidence in the skills that will keep you alive--whether it's for a few hours, days or long term. 365 Essential Survival Skills comprises the best knowledge, tips and tricks availa ...Show more
Do It Yourself Bushcraft: A Book of the Big Outdoors by Daniel Beard
$21.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
Boy Scouts co-founder and avid outdoorsman "Uncle Dan" Beard provides a clear, enthusiastic introduction to the joys of camping, trapping, and wilderness survival. Originally published nearly a century ago, this engagingly written and charmingly illustrated guide to bushcraft provides an atmospheric rem ...Show more
The Secret Life of Cows by Rosamund Young
$19.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency | Reading Level: very good
"Within a day of receiving this book, I had consumed it... Absorbing, moving, and compulsively readable."--Lydia Davis In this affectionate, heart-warming chronicle, Rosamund Young distills a lifetime of organic farming wisdom, describing the surprising personalities of her cows and other animals At ...Show more
Natural Farming: a Practical Guide by Pat Coleby
$35.00 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
Natural Farming carries a simple but widely overlooked message: healthy soil makes healthy plants, which in turn make healthy animals and healthy people. The book explores the consequences in the soil of applications of superphosphate and other artificial fertilisers over decades, and explains soil chem ...Show more
Heartwood: The Art and Science of Growing Trees for Conservation and Profit by Rowan Reid
$49.95 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
Heartwood challenges the entrenched view that when it comes to forests, one is either a conservationist or a profiteer. Forest scientist Rowan Reid draws on over twenty years of experience and study to offer a third way: where growing trees for profit can have a positive environmental impact. He challen ...Show more
Frugavore - How to Grow Organic, Buy Local, Waste Nothing, and Eat Well by Arabella Forge
$34.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
More and more people are interested in eating well and in un-derstanding where their food comes from. But where do you start? Organic, free-range, local, or sustainable: the choices can be overwhelming--not to mention expensive. In Frugavore, Arabella Forge shows that developing a better relationshi ...Show more
Do-It-Yourself Solar and Wind Energy System - DIY off-Grid and on-Grid Solar Panel and Wind Turbine System by Eric Layton
$41.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
Eric Layton, an engineer in the solar industry who installs solar panels, wrote this guide for readers that are trying to build their own solar or wind system. Using pictures, this do-it-yourself (DIY) solar and wind system was built with a battery back-up system. His new book is a comprehensive guide o ...Show more
Outdoor Knots by Cliff JACOBSON
$26.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency | Series: Falcon Pocket Guides
Outdoor Knots is the latest in Falcon's popular Pocket Guide series and delivers relevant, expertly curated content in a convenient, travel-ready package. Outdoor skills expert and veteran author Cliff Jacobson provides readers with accessible information on choosing the best knot for the situation, tyi ...Show more
The Hempcrete Book: Designing and Building with Hemp-Lime by William Stanwix
$49.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency | Series: Sustainable Building Ser.
"Truly comprehensive and enormously helpful. I wish we'd had this guide when building our Hempcrete homes in Swindon!" - Kevin McCloud "This is an excellent practical guide, with detailed information on how to specify and build with hempcrete to create comfortable buildings with low environmental impact ...Show more
Holistic Management Handbook - Regenerating Your Land and Growing Your Profits by Jody Butterfield; Sam Bingham; Allan Savory
$56.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
Holistic management is a systems-thinking approach developed by biologist Allan Savory to restore the world's grassland soils and minimize the damaging effects of climate change and desertification on humans and the natural world. This third edition of Holistic Management Handbook: Regenerating Your Lan ...Show more
Save the World - There Is No Planet B: Things You Can Do Right Now to Save Our Planet by Louise Bradford
$16.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
Together, we can change the world There is little doubt that our beautiful planet is now under huge threat; our weather is more extreme, plastic litters our oceans, industrial production and farming methods wreak havoc on the environment and mass deforestation has led to the extinction of many species. ...Show more