First published in 1945, it is a week-by-week guide of what you need to be doing and when in your vegetable garden. It may be over 60 years old now, but the unfussy and easily followed advice it contains remains relevant today.
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Steering 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.
This 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.
Picking up a 1976 edition of Delia Smith’s Frugal Food proves highly instructive, and more than a little entertaining, too.
A 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.
Search 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.
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.