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Gardening From Scratch - The hugely successful BBC 2 series - written by Gay Search - is presented here in full. In one season, you can transform your garden, this series covers everything you’ll need to know.
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Customer Review: ‘Nothing should be wasted on the self-sufficient holding. The dustman should never need to call.’
`John Seymour is known and respected as the `Father of Self Sufficiency’…..His most influential contribution has been to live, teach and promote self sufficiency, first on five acres in Suffolk, and then on 62 acres in Pembrokeshire, and now in Ireland, where the `School of Self-Sufficiency’ that he established with Angela Ashe attracts new recruits in increasing numbers….. We had never had any real conscious drive to self-sufficiency. We had thought, like a lot of people, that it would be nice to grow our own vegetables. But living here has altered our sense of values. We find that we no longer place the same importance on artefacts and gadgets as other people do. Also - every time we buy some factory-made article we wonder what sort of people made it - if they enjoyed making it or if it was just a bore - what sort of life the maker, or makers, lead. I wonder where all this activity is leading. Is it really leading to a better or richer or simpler life for people? Or not? I wonder about the nature of progress. One can progress in so many different directions. Up a gum tree for example. I know that the modern factory worker is supposed to lead an `easier’ life than, say, the peasant. But I wonder if this supposition is correct. And I wonder if, whether `easier’ or not, it is a better life? Simpler? Healthier? More spiritually satisfying? Or not? So far as we can, we import our needs from small and honest craftsman and tradesmen. We subscribe as little as we can to the tycoons, and the Ad-men, and the boys with their expense accounts. If we could subscribe to nothing at all we would be the better pleased……. Since I first wrote the first version of this book back in 1975 I now think there is a far more urgent reason for it. Very few people today can fail to see that the present course that man - and woman - kind is embarked upon is unsustainable…………. The purpose of this book is not to shape other people’s lives but simply to help people to do things if they decide to. This way of life suits me - it has kept me fighting fit and at least partly sane into my 88th year, and it has prevented me from doing too much harm to our poor planet…..’ An excellent overview but not quite the only book you will ever need. A chunky tome, on the surface it appears quite detailed but tends to be brief in some areas….other books will be required if and when the dreaming stage ends and realism does kick in! Published by DK, this book is packed with typically charming illustrations and some subtle step-by-step methods - the odd one may not be not for the weak-hearted and could possibly convert the children to vegetarianism - `skinning a rabbit`, for example! But this is a real book with a real aim! 312 high quality shiny pages, split over 11 chapters:- The Meaning of Self-Sufficiency Food from the Garden Food from the Animals Food from the Fields Food from the Wild In the Dairy In the Kitchen Brewing and Wine-Making Energy & Waste Crafts & Skills Things You Need to Know with an introduction, glossary and a full index. Useful reference sections include:- `Types of Soil`, `The Seasons`, `The Urban Garden` (from the smaller - `the allotment`, to the rather larger - `five-acre holding’), `Pests`, `Vegetables`, `Herbs`, `Tree Fruit’, `The Living Farmyard’ (with notes such as `a cow’s teeth reveal her age), ‘The Dry Toilet’, ‘Power from the Wind’, ‘Basketry’ , `Hanging your Pig’, `Beef Joints’, `Sheep Shearing’, `Bees and Honey’, `Hedging and Fencing’, Harvesting’, `Grass and Hay`, ‘The Working Horse’, `The Cereals’, ‘Mushrooms’, `Fish and Seafoods`, `Plants and Creatures of the Seashore’, ‘Brewing and Wine-Making’ and `Making Cheese’.
Customer Review: This is THE book on Self Sufficiency
This is the best book I have read on the subject of self sufficiency and I have read quite a number since I have been researching the subject, this shows you everything you need to know, laying out your land, how to heat your house with renewable energy sources, waste reduction, crop rotation, butchering your own meat, trussing, cheesemakeing, the layout of your workshop simply everything, a well researched, well thoughtout book…. it really makes you want to go and find a few acres and opt out of the rat race.
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