Practical Self Sufficiency: The Complete Guide to Sustainable Living by James Strawbridge, Dick Strawbridge
$39.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
Practical Self Sufficiency is a wonderfully useful and accessible book that contains something for absolutely everyone.This fully updated guide, now in a paperback edition, offers clear step-by-step information in classic DK style and offers a greater focus on the issues surrounding sustainable living f ...Show more
The Smart Veggie Patch: A complete system for growing nutritional, abundant organic produce to feed a family and save a planet by Terry Memory
$29.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
Terry Memory built his veggie patch for his family of eight after surviving the Black Saturday bushfires. Determined to become more self-reliant in this era of unpredictable weather events and worsening health caused by highly processed food, he designed a system that combines ancient agrarian tradition ...Show more
Thrifty Household: More Than 1000 Budget-Friendly Hints and Tips for a Clean, Waste-free, Eco-friendly Home by Country Women's Association Victoria
$24.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
A modern classic for a new generation looking for environmentally friendly, thrifty, tried and true solutions for tackling everyday household tasks.
Be Your Own Builder by Keith Schleiger
$29.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
A talented and skilled carpenter, builder and foreman, Keith Schleiger has created a practical guide to project managing your own home building or renovations. It will start you off at the very beginning with advice on how to get started, and it will be filled with easy and achievable projects within th ...Show more
Grow Your Own Tea - The Complete Guide to Cultivating, Harvesting, and Preparing by Christine Parks; Susan M. Walcott
$37.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
"Plant a tea plant and watch it grow! Grow Your Own Tea is truly a masterpiece how-to guide to cultivating and enjoying the sacred leaf. It will delight even the armchair gardener and casual tea lover." --James Norwood Pratt, author of James Norwood Pratt's Tea Dictionary Tea lovers, make a fresh pot, ...Show more
Making Natural Liquid Soaps by FAILOR C.
$24.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
Using a simple double-boiler technique, readers will make elegant and soothing liquid soaps. Dozens of recipes using oils, herbs, and other natural ingredients to create hand soaps, shower gels, bubble baths, conditioning shampoos and even baby and pet shampoos.
How to Build Your Own Greenhouse by Roger Marshall
$39.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
For avid gardeners, the biggest down-side of the hobby is the limited growing season in much of the country. Gardening during the winter is often reduced to tending house-plants and browsing seed catalogues for next summer's tomato choices. Master Gardener and builder Roger Marshall enthusiastically pre ...Show more
The Water-Wise Home by Laura Allen
$34.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
The book describes the water crisis-national and global, present and future - and then presents options for saving water through conservation, creating a water-wise landscape, and creating water-conserving systems. It offers detailed, illustrated instructions on creating systems to reuse greywater, harv ...Show more
Brickwork and Paving for House and Garden by Michael Hammett
$59.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
The book covers the different types of brick and mortar; recalimed bricks; assessing durability; estimating quantities; and buying materials. It provides information on basic bricklaying tools and equipment; dimensions and setting out work; buidling straight and curved walls; and building simple arches. ...Show more
Citrus by Allen Gilbert
$29.95 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
This title follows in the footsteps of Allen's other popular texts on organically growing apples, nuts and tomatoes. Table of Contents: Citrus: Origins & Spread; Citrus Species & Cultivars; Propagation of Citrus; Managing Citrus Trees; Pruning & Training Citrus; Pest and Disease Control of C ...Show more
An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Keeping Backyard Chickens: Watch Chicks Grow from Hatchlings to Hens by JENNA WOGINRICH
$24.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
From hatchlings to adult laying hens, every stage of a chicken's growth is shown and explained in this highly accessible, photographic introduction to the basics of keeping chickens, including behaviour, housing, feeding, hygiene, and health care. With delightful photographs, Jenna Woginrich chronicles ...Show more