Knots and Splices by Colin Cyrus L;Jarman Day
$12.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
Knots & Splices is the bestselling truly pocket-sized book on rope and wire work, splices, and all types of knots, and has been continuously in print for almost 50 years. It has become the basic handbook showing how to tie the most useful and indispensable knots, bends and splices and has sold world ...Show more
Soil: The Incredible Story of What Keeps the Earth, and Us, Healthy by Matthew Evans
$34.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency | Reading Level: very good
'A love letter to Mother Earth and entertaining must-read that goes to the heart of our survival' Charles Massy, author of Call of the Reed Warbler. What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves. Soil is the unlikely story of our most maligned resource as swashbuckling hero. A saga of bombs, ice ages and c ...Show more
Tiny House Living: Ideas for Building and Living Well in Less Than 400 Square Feet by Ryan Mitchell
$65.00 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
Tiny House, Large Lifestyle! Tiny homes are popping up across America, captivating people with their novel approach not only to housing, but to life. Once considered little more than a charming oddity, the tiny house movement continues to gain momentum among those who thirst for a simpler, "greener," mo ...Show more
Mushroom Foraging and Feasting - Recollections and Recipes from a Lifetime on the Hunt by Victoria Romanoff
$54.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Victoria Romanoff picked her first mushroom--a brown-capped butterpilz or sticky bun--at the age of four, at her family's summer dacha on the shores of the Baltic Sea. Little did she realize that her newfound interest in mushrooming would soon become an essential survival skill, as she and her mother sp ...Show more
Balanced Beekeeping II - Managing the Top Bar Hive by Philip Chandler
$49.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
If The Barefoot Beekeeper was the harbinger of the 'natural beekeeping' movement, then this is the workshop manual. Together with its companion volume - Balanced Beekeeping I: Building a Top Bar Hive - this book will lead you gently into a fascinating relationship with the most engaging of nature's work ...Show more
Second Nature by Michael Pollan
$25.00 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
This isn't so much a how-to on gardening as a how-to on thinking about gardening. It follows the course of the natural year, from spring through winter, as Pollard, an editor at Harper's , chronicles his growth as a gardener in Connecticut's rocky Housatonic Valley. Starting out as a "child of Thoreau," ...Show more
Backyard Poultry Naturally by Alanna Moore
$38.50 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
Answers all your questions about poultry and breeding them. From housing to feeding, from pets to production.
Making Your Home Sustainable by Derek Wrigley
$42.95 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
Demonstrating how to retrofit existing houses with solar, natural buoyancy ventilation, water tanks, and photovoltaics, this practical guide offers instructions on how to make one's home more comfortable while saving money on energy bills and addressing the causes of global warming. Perfect for homeowne ...Show more
Plastic: A Toxic Love Story by Susan Freinkel
$34.95 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
"This eloquent, elegant book thoughtfully plumbs the . . . consequences of our dependence on plastics" (The Boston Globe, A Best Nonfiction Book of 2011). From pacemakers to disposable bags, plastic built the modern world. But a century into our love affair, we're starting to realize it's not such a hea ...Show more
Oceana by Ted Danson
$45.00 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
Actor Danson details his journey from joining a modest local protest in the mid-1980s to oppose offshore oil drilling near his Southern California neighborhood to his current status as one of the world's most influential oceanic environmental activists.
The Cat Lover's Pocket Bible by Cerys Owen
$22.95 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
Did you know 25% of cat owners blow dry their cats hair after a bath? Perfect for feline fanatics, The Cat Lover's Pocket Bible contains essential feline facts, feats and frivolities about the nation's favourite pet. It answers any question a cat owner could have, including: How do I check my cat for fl ...Show more
Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide for Farmers, Smallholders and Gardeners by HOLZER, SEPP
$39.99 AUD
Category: Self-Sufficiency
Sepp Holzer farms steep mountainsides in Austria 1,500 meters above sea level. His farm is an intricate network of terraces, raised beds, ponds, waterways and tracks, well covered with productive fruit trees and other vegetation, with the farmhouse neatly nestling amongst them. This is in dramatic contr ...Show more