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The Self-Sufficiency Manual: A Complete Practical Guide to Living Off the Land
Mark Newton
23rd February, 2012
Alison Candlin’s opus does the basics brilliantly but doesn’t go into enough depth for Mark Newton more...
Smallholding: the basics
Gervase Poulden
18th October, 2011
From sheep to spinach, Gervase Poulden has the skinny on how to make your smallholding dreams a reality more...
Grow Your Food for Free
Andy McKee
19th May, 2011
Packed with useful nuggets of advice; Dave Hamilton’s tome, says Andy McKee, has everything you need to kick start a more self-sufficient way of life more...
How to grow food in strange places - by the experts
Helen Babbs
29th September 2010
You don't need a garden to grow your own fruit and veg. If you're a budding horticulturalist with no space to swing a trowel, here are some creative - and sometimes bizarre - ideas from around the world more...
Preserve your harvest: how to freeze food
Bob Flowerdew
6th April, 2010
A simple guide to freezing fruit, vegetables and herbs from the book Grow Your Own, Eat Your Own more...
Learning from remote, sustainable communities
James Morrison
22nd December, 2009
Being off the beaten track need not require lashings of fossil fuels to provide a comfortable lifestyle. James Morrison tells the remarkable story of the inhabitants of Scotland's Knoydart Peninsula more...
Bring back real markets
Tom Hodgkinson
11th September, 2009
Tom Hodgkinson lays out the case for the return of street markets. Wouldn't we all be better off living outside the box? more...
Know your oats: grow your own grains
Clarissa Dickson Wright and Johnny Scott
25th August, 2009
Growing your own food can go beyond fruit and veg if you have space and the right soil. Read on for Clarissa Dickson Wright and Johnny Scott's guide to grain crops more...
Keeping chickens - the basics
Johnny Scott
27th July, 2009
Farmer and naturalist Johnny Scott explains how to start a home-reared flockmore...
Tinker's Bubble: low-impact living
Shannon Carr-Shand
30th January, 2009
In 1993 a group of 10 friends, including former Ecologist editor Simon Fairlie, shared a vision of a place where people could live and work in harmony with the land. What resulted became Tinker’s Bubble more...
Growing your own - where to begin
Paul Kingsnorth
19th May, 2009
'Where do I start?' Paul Kingsnorth answers the oft-asked question of those who want to grow their own food - but are lacking in knowledge, time, space, or all three. No problem. Read on... more...
Gardening When It Counts by Steve Solomon
Clive Dennis
1st May, 2008
Growing your own would be vital if the shops shut for good. Steve Solomon has the key to a persistent vegetable state more...
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Ecologist questionnaire: how much do you know about where you live?
The Ecologist
1st May, 2004
‘If we could think locally, we would take far better care of things than we do now. The right local questions and answers will be the right global ones. The Amish question, "What will this do for our community?" tends toward the right answer for the world.’ Wendell Berry more...
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