Along with their garden tools every vegetable gardener would find this informative Vegetable Planner invaluable. The wheel itself, with its “rotate & align” dial provides information on 36 garden vegetables: preferred soil, how best to plant or sow the seeds and when best to harvest them. On the reverse of the wheel is information on crop rotation and companion plants.
Your patio, balcony, rooftop, front stoop, boulevard, windowsill, planter box, or fire escape is a potential fresh food garden waiting to happen.
In Grow Great Grub, Gayla Trail, the founder of the leading online gardening community (YouGrowGirl.com), shows you how to grow your own delicious, affordable, organic edibles virtually anywhere.
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An essential guide to everything you need to buy, prepare, cook and eat meat today from one of the finest contemporary cooks.
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In this superb book Frances Bissell has compiled a classic compendium of over 200 delicious recipes, for beef, veal, pork, lamb, poultry and game. Here are tempting slow-cooked braises and stews to enjoy for a winter Sunday lunch, light and quick one-course meals to rustle up at the end of the working day, and sauces, preserves and accompaniments to lend a new twist to traditional dishes
In addition, she gives invaluable advice about finding and buying the best ingredients, all the various cuts and joints and how to get the best from them, equipment, roasting charts and how to joint and carve.
According to one national newspaper, Frances Bissell has the largest following of any cookery writer in the country (Delia Smith: “Really?”). Whether this is true or not, she is a cook of formidable range and versatility, as enthusiastically participating in salami- making in deepest Kent as doing a stint as guest chef at the Manila Mandarin hotel. In The Organic Meat Cookbook she has assembled a collection of more than 200 delicious recipes to make the best of the fine free-range and organic meats that are increasingly available.
The recipes seem to come from just about every conceivable cuisine in the world, with a very interesting emphasis on Spain and Portugal (the latter very welcome, since few if any Portuguese recipes are in general circulation) and their former spheres of influence–Latin America, the Philippines, Basque shepherd dishes from California.
A section devoted to each meat is prefaced by a useful account of cooking methods and of the various English, French and American cuts and joints. This handsome addition to the Ebury Press uniform paperback series of cookbooks is actually a reworking of Frances Bissell’s Real Meat Cookbook, dating from the innocent days of 1992, when there was less reason to emphasis the purity of the meat’s provenance. –Robin Davidson
This beautiful new book provides a tasty sampler of the country’s cuisine, with more than 30 authentic recipes ranging from breakfasts, appetizers and light meals to substantial main courses, classic puddings and traditional baking. Discover a wealth of regional dishes from the hills, valley and fishing villages of Wales, including world-famous classics like Glamorgan Sausages and Loin of Saltmarsh Lamb, and intriguing local favourites like Bakestone Bread. Packed with 130 inspirational pictures, as well as cook’s tips, variations and complete nutritional information, this delightful book is essential reading for everyone who would like to discover the hidden secrets of Welsh food and cooking.
About the Author
Annette Yates co-runs the food consultancy Taste Talk. In her native Wales, Annette is a keen supporter of food producers, farmers’ markets and chefs, working with them all to create unique taste experiences and food events. She has contributed to several national magazines and is author of many cookbooks on subjects ranging from traditional British recipes, slow cooking and steaming, to microwaving, barbecuing and bread making. Any spare time is spent just as creatively, designing and making silver jewellery.
This book, the latest innovative Haynes Manual, will provide a complete and easy-to-understand reference for the growing band of people wishing to keep their own chickens for both food and pleasure. Pitched at the novice but also containing plenty to interest the experienced chicken-keeper, the book will contain no-nonsense advice, tips, facts and step-by step sequences, as well as plenty of relevant photographs and diagrams. As more people keep chickens nowadays than at any time since the Second World War, this book is a timely addition to the Haynes range.
5.0 out of 5 stars Great For anyone thinking of keeping chickens, 2 Feb 2010
By Mr. S. J. Power (Norfolk England)
This review is from: Chicken Manual: The Complete Step-by-step Guide to Keeping Chickens (Hardcover)
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Great pictures and a great book for information for any one starting out in poultry.
Gives you details of everything you need to know even plans to build you own coop. The lot is covered from breeding to health care to what your eggs should be like.
All the basics are there on care and feeding even what you need in your first aid kit. I will be recommending this book to all the people who buy chickens from me as a great start up book.
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River Cottage Veg Every Day!
With over 200 recipes and vibrant photography from Simon Wheeler, River Cottage Veg Every Day is a timely eulogy to the glorious green stuff.
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Find your own slice of the ‘The Good Life’ Bake bread. Start a wormery. Shop locally. Plant a tree. Find out how to get closer to the soil, without going the whole hog. Discover 80 simple, eco projects you can dip in and out of, from growing salad on your window-sill, to collecting rainwater.
Pick up what you need using the directory of useful organic stockists and websites, then choose a project to suit your pocket and lifestyle. You don’t need a garden, special equipment, or even much time. Edited by Sheherazade Goldsmith, wife of organic spokesman and Ecologist editor, Zac Goldsmith.
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Previously published in hardback as Cooking Outside the Box. This stunning new paperback offers delicious, beautiful, seasonal recipes from Britain’s organic food hero! A stunning paperback version of the highly successful original Cooking Outside the Box. (more…)
Simple steps to gardening success, from the experts at the RHS Follow RHS show-how and know-how for a garden that looks great all year round (whatever size it is). From root veg to herbs and salads, inspirational tips and techniques on choosing the right seeds, growing organic, finding the best site, fertilisers, pest protection and more guarantee success.
Vegetables in a Small Garden: Simple Steps to Success (RHS Simple Steps to Success)
Get perfect results: whether you’re a green-fingered guru or a gardening novice. For more step-by-step gardening advice, pick up other titles from this series.
Here are 20 of Wales’ best and most interesting gardens, some unknown to the gardening world, some familiar, and all specially photographed by award-winning photographer Charles Hawes. (more…)
The New Self-Sufficient Gardener: The Complete Illustrated Guide to Planning, Growing, Storing and Preserving Your Own Garden Produce by John Seymour
The complete illustrated guide to planning, growing, storing and preserving your own garden produce from ‘the grand master of self-sufficiency’ (Kitchen Garden), John Seymour John Seymour’s classic guide gives you the knowledge and expertise to create your own self-sufficient garden and produce what you need. Whatever the size of your space, discover how to garden organically and maximise your harvest, without the need for radical changes to your lifestyle. From cultivating vegetables to making cider, keeping chickens to training vines, you’ll garden in tune with the seasons, growing for the year, eating for today and storing for tomorrow. No specialist knowledge required: just clearly explained principles and practicalities ideal for any gardener.
John Seymour, the acknowledged founding father of the self-sufficiency movement, was an active campaigner for the countryside and the environment. Students come from around the world to learn about his lifestyle & philosophies at the centre he established in southern Ireland.
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* Combine with the matching sleepsuit and hat for a great gift set
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Putting food on the table for the family quickly and economically doesn’t mean you have to compromise on quality. This book shows how Hugh’s approach to food can be adapted to suit any growing, working family, or busy young singles and couples for that matter. Breakfast, baking, lunchboxes, quick suppers, healthy snacks, eating on the move and weekend cooking for the week ahead – all these, and more, will be covered in River Cottage Every Day.
As Hugh says: “I have honed the River Cottage approach to food over a decade now, and I believe passionately that it is relevant to everybody, every day. You only have to decide that food, and its provenance, matters to you and your family, and the River Cottage way of doing things can offer a whole raft of solutions: food sourcing and shopping strategies, thrifty kitchen tricks and, above all, approachable, delicious, easy recipes.”
“This book makes no prior assumptions about where you shop, what you may or may not know about growing vegetables or keeping livestock, or whether you can tell the difference between a cep and a chanterelle. But once you own the book, these things may well begin to matter to you. All you will need to reap the benefit is a commitment to spend at least some time in the kitchen, with fresh ingredients, a few times a week. And if you don’t have that at the outset, I believe that a little time spent with this book – perhaps in bed, before you go to sleep – will soon put that right! Above all, I intend to tempt and charm you towards a better life with food – with a set of simply irresistible recipes that just happen to be seasonal and ethical.”
Hardcover: 416 pages
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About the Author
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is a writer, broadcaster and campaigner. His series for Channel 4 have earned him a huge popular following, while his River Cottage books have collected multiple awards including the Glenfiddich Trophy (twice), the Andre Simon Food Book of the Year (three times), the Michael Smith Award for Work on British Food award at the Guild of Food Writers and, in the US, the James Beard Cookbook of the Year. Hugh lives in Dorset with his family.
Everyone dreams at some point in their lives of living the good life, albeit not in terms of the BBC comedy series. In this revised and fully updated edition of John Seymour’s classic guide to self-sufficiency, the dream becomes more attainable. Now running a School of Self-Sufficiency in Ireland, John Seymour is as committed as ever to living a better life, more simply, by living off the land rather than out of shops.
His magnum opus covers every conceivable topic from animal husbandry and butchering, seed sowing and cropping, dairy production and food storage, rubbish and recycling. All delivered in Seymour’s inimitable, occasionally brusque style, it is a mine of information artfully illustrated with the original illustrations redrawn in full colour. New material includes GM crops, urban gardens and alternative forms of energy with craft skills rounding the picture of natural wholesomeness off nicely. A classic of its time and a new classic in the making, this revised edition will encourage and assist all those aspiring to a live a healthier, more environmentally friendly life. – Lucy Watson
Make the break, realise the dream and start living “The Good Life!” Packed with comprehensive information on all the practicals, from ploughing fields to milking cows, as well as new information on how to create an urban organic garden and harness natural energy. This new and revised full-colour edition of the illustrated classic is an engrossing read and a wonderful handbook for realists and dreamers alike.
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