Product Description: This book was originally published by The Good Life Press, and has been re-edited. "A Good Life" is a celebration of John Seymour: self-sufficiency guru, political activist, environmental campaigner and author of "The New Complete Book of Self Sufficiency", a book together with the man, that became in the inspiration for a whole generation...read more

Gathers a variety of recipes for sauces, vegetables, pasta, main courses, and desserts, without sugar or salt and low in fat

Product Description: 'Not everyone can keep a cow, but everyone can make cheese.' This book shows you the very basic equipment needed to make your own cheese: the ingredients, including different milks, herbs and flavours; how to make a simple cheese; and how to produce some of the worlds speciality cheeses such as Roquefort, Brie and Edam...read more

Explores the basic principles of preserving food. This book gives a guide to getting started, detailing the materials needed, and gives step-by-step guides to making ham, bacon, salt beef and cured fish. It covers hot and cold smoking including building simple smokers with everyday equipment for domestic use.

Product Description: Thousands of backyard poultry keepers are signing up all over the country, experiencing afresh the joys of their first hen, their first egg, their happy chuckle in the morning garden. Keeping poultry in the city brings with it not only joys but responsibilities...read more

Product Description: Maybe sometimes you can manage an hour a day, other times an hour a week. Whichever it is, An Hour in the Garden provides you with a monthly guide to creating a beautiful garden: from the first principles of design to the practical jobs that fill all those gardening hours from January 1st to December 31st...read more

Product Description: With contributions from a number of specialists in their given field, The Smallholder’s Veterinary Handbook covers all the animals you would usually find on a smallholding, from bees to bovines. Acknowledging that smallholders are in the unique position of having time to both study and know their animals, their behavior, their habits, their likes and dislikes far better than farmers of larger herds or flocks, the book sets out to aid the diagnosis of disease so that the smallholder can take the necessary action quickly and thus avoid the spread of disease...read more

Product Description: How to cultivate a lot of home-grown vegetables from the smallest possible space. When space is at a premium, growing decent food to eat might seem an impossible task. Patio Produce is about just that; growing delicious, wholesome fruit and vegetables in the smallest spaces...read more

Product Description: Mr Digwell is a legend in the gardening world, teaching generations how to achieve success in a simple step by step style. Authoritative, clear, friendly and reliable, if it appears in Mr Digwell you can be sure it is easy, effective and right...read more

For the uninitiated cheese making seems a mixture of science, smoke and mirrors, yet it's an ancient craft. This title explains the science of making cheese - cottage style. It includes different milks from goat and sheep, adding herbs and flavours, selling and showing cheese, the legal implications and gearing up for a larger scale operation.

Introducing us to wild food, this title guides us to which food is available in different seasons, British habitats and gathering in various parts of the country, a wild medicine chest and a series of journeys through the countryside to create various banquets. It also provides guidance in shooting and fishing, humane trapping and butchering meat.

Product Description: There is a huge social change with more and more people wanting to live a simple, more self-sufficient, make it yourself life. With lawns and flower gardens being turned over to vegetable production and keeping chickens being adopted by suburbia with the more adventurous looking to keeping other livestock such as pigs, sheep, bees and goats urban farming is becoming less of a dream and more of a reality for many...read more

Product Description: For the beginning beekeeper who seeks practical advice, Keeping Bees is the perfect guide to help in getting started with the hobby.Keeping Bees provides a comprehensive overview of everything a beekeeping novice needs to setup and properly maintain a hive in his or her garden and how to harvest honey, wax, and propolis...read more

For the hunter-gatherer, butchering food was simply a matter of cutting to make the maximum use of an animal's edible flesh. Thankfully we no longer go, spear in hand, to track our food but our convenient, off- the-shelf way of life has removed us from the source of our food and, some would argue, our respect for it.

This book is intended as a chemistry text for a one-semester course on inorganic reaction mechanisms at the advanced undergraduate or graduate level. Introductory chapters concentrate on the collection and interpretation of kinetic data. The chapter on substitution reactions begins with the Langford and Gray classification system and focuses on a sensible approach to mechanistic discussions. Current experimental and theoretical information on solvent exchange reactions is emphasized for substitution on labile systems. Standard stereochemical change processes are discussed, along with a simplified approach to symmetry rules for fluxional organometallic systems. The area of organometallic reactions attempts to bring together and generalize the current work on a variety of common reactions in this area, including C-H activation and a selection of catalytic processes. Electron transfer reactions are discussed in terms of current modifications of Marcus' theory and ideas about bridging ligand effects, including intravalence electron transfer. In inorganic photochemistry, the general factors affecting quantum yields are discussed, with applications to cobalt (III), chromium (III) and rhodium (III) systems, along with flash photolysis and matrix isolation studies in organometallic photochemistry. Selected bioinorganic systems are discussed in detail. The text includes over 500 references to original literature through 1990, and sample problems for each chapter.