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Keeping Poultry and Rabbits on Scraps

February 3, 2010
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Chicken food is fairly inexpensive, but if you want to be truly self-sufficient you should be making best use of your kitchen scraps to feed your hens. This book, written during the war, tells you how to do exactly that.

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Bag a book bargain

September 8, 2009

Rosie Boycott’s “Our Farm” can be yours for just £2.99, rather than the advertised £15.99.

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Vegetable Growing Month by Month: the best veg-growing book ever?

February 19, 2009

2008-vegetable-growing-mbm-thumbnail.jpgSteering clear of fancy paper and full-colour photos, this how-to book cuts to the chase and really delivers, with clear advice for the first time edible gardener.

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The Chicken Health Handbook by Gail Damerow: review

December 8, 2008

Chicken Health HandbookThis comprehensive guide to diagnosing and treating your chickens’ health problems is impressive in its breadth and depth. However, the lack of a comprehensive index ultimately lets it down.

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Delia Smith's Frugal Food: review

September 22, 2008

Frugal FoodPicking up a 1976 edition of Delia Smith’s Frugal Food proves highly instructive, and more than a little entertaining, too.

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Frugal Food

September 16, 2008

Even Delia Smith, one of the richest women in Britain, is leaping on the current frugal bandwagon.

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Our Farm by Rosie Boycott: review

August 22, 2008

2008-our-farm-thumbnail.jpgA reality check for any Good Life dreamers looking to quit the city and make a living from the passion, Rosie Boycott’s Our Farm, recording her first year as a small holder in Ilminster is as much a biography as a friendly warning.

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The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency: review

February 14, 2008

2008-complete-self-sufficiency-thumb.jpgSearch Amazon for self sufficiency, and this is the first book in the list. And with good reason. John Seymour’s hefty time is beautiful, indispensable and one of the first and best works on the subject.

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How to Store Your Garden Produce: review

February 4, 2008

Freezing, bottling, pickling, preserving, clamping, fermenting, brewing… the options for storing your annual crop are manifold, but it’s not immediately obvious either how you should go about it, or which is the best to choose. This great book tells you which method to choose and how to do it.

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Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance: review

January 21, 2008

‘Our first cockerel was an accident called Yvette…’
Imagine Peter Mayle was rewriting A Year in Provence, but from the back of a hen coop, not France. Just as he followed his dream of a life in the sun, so Martin Gurdon followed the dream of daily fresh eggs and chickens in his garden. This slim [...]

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