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Brilliant product, by S. Dollimore (UK)

I’ve had one of these planners for many years and it is still as good as new. Even though I am now a seasoned vegetable gardener, I still find it really useful and take it around the garden with me, in my trug, as I’m planting things out. It is the most useful gardening guide ever! This one I have bought for my son who is just getting into gardening and I was delighted that it is still available.

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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Grow Great Grub packs in tips and essential information about:

• Choosing a location and making the most of your soil (even if it’s less than perfect)
• Building a raised bed, compost bin, and self-watering container using recycled materials
• Keeping pests and diseases away from your plants—the toxin-free way
• Growing bountiful crops in pots and selecting the best heirloom varieties
• Cultivating hundreds of plants, from blueberries to Thai basil, to the best tomatoes you’ll ever taste
• Canning, and preserving to make the most of your garden’s generosity
• Green-friendly, cost-saving, growing, and building projects that are smart and stylish
• And much more!

Whether you’re looking to eat on a budget or simply experience the pleasure of picking tonight’s meal from right outside your door, this is the must-have book for small-space gardeners—no backyard required.

GAYLA TRAIL is the creator of the acclaimed top gardening website yougrowgirl.com. Her work as a writer and photographer has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Newsweek, Budget Living, and ReadyMade. A resident of Toronto who has grown a garden on her rooftop for more than 10 years, she is the author of You Grow Girl: The Groundbreaking Guide to Gardening.

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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

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Click here to buy A Taste of Wales: Discover the Essence of Welsh Cooking with Over 30 Classic Recipes

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.

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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)
Got my copy today

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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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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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.



A Slice of Organic Life: Get closer to the soil without going the whole hog

Reviews

Great introduction to the subject, 8 Feb 2008
A. Richards “Green bean” (Essex)

This beautifully illustrated volume brings together a whole host of tips and ideas to help to change your lifestyle without becoming overwhelming. You can dip into it at leisure and easily find projects to try out as the book is helpfully divided into sections for people who have no garden, a very small garden area, or a large garden or access to an allotment.

Excellent book – I definitely recommend it!

What a fab book!, 11 Oct 2007
J. Harrison (Folkestone, Kent)

I only got this today and I’ve browsed through it cover to cover… it’s very inspiring and really makes you think about the environment. It’s full of little projects whether you have a big garden to no garden at all! My first projects are to get a wormery and a water butt, followed by creating a small veg garden.

It even shows you how to keep chickens, goats, pigs and cows!!

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. A cookbook to love, a cookbook to read, with irresistible organic recipes from Keith Abel, the utterly charismatic co-founder of Abel & Cole, Britain’s most successful organic home delivery company.

The Abel & Cole Cookbook: Easy, Seasonal, Organic provides mouth-watering excuses for eating glorious food exactly when it comes into its best. These are inspiring yet unfussy recipes that let simple ingredients speak for themselves (but don’t try to stop him speaking on their behalf). Brilliantly written and entertaining, even the most timid cook can approach these recipes with gusto. Who wouldn’t want to cook Keith’s way?

So throw out your measuring cups, get rid of your scales, and get to know your food! Recipes include Pork Loin Chops on a Bed of Sweet Orchard Apples, Husk-Wrapped and Roasted Garlic Corn, Venison Fillet with Black Kale and Port, 45-Minute Pumpkin & Parmesan Bread, Chargrilled Asparagus and Halloumi with a Citrus Dressing, and Rhubarb Bread and Butter Pudding.

Keith also suggests delicious smoothies and soups to help you find a use for that inevitable glut of leftover fruit and veggies at the end of the week. Fully illustrated with beautiful finished food shots, inspiring atmospheric pictures and charming visual references to Keith’s own quirky style. Cooking Outside the Box also features Keith’s anecdotes on organic farms and small producers, stories about the friends and family who have inspired him, and hilarious suggestions for getting the most out of your cooking experience. So eat with the seasons and eat well!

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Reviews

‘A kitchen essential’ – Country Living magazine

‘Keith Abel writes passionately about eating seasonally but with an admirable lack of ponciness.’ – The London Paper

‘An exquisitely designed book.’ - The Book Magazine

‘Packed with inspirational recipes…filled with idyllic images of the coutryside, this makes you want to live the good life.’ - She Magazine

‘This inspiring, down-to-earth recipe book will entice you into the kitchen.’ – Easy Living Magazine

‘Crammed with tasty, mouth-watering recipes celebrating the joy of quality ingredients, enjoyed in season, at their best.’ - Organic Life Magazine

About the Author

Keith Abel is the charismatic owner of Abel & Cole, the UK’s biggest organic home delivery service. He lives with his wife, two children and their dog in Hampshire and is passionate about enjoying good, wholseome food. He has won a Queen’s award for sustainable development in industry.

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. This is a chance to see what is happening in Welsh gardens today, be they large or small, contemporary town gardens or delightfully old-fashioned country gardens; to see how they relate, now and in the past, to the rugged landscapes that surround them, and to see what personalities and ambitions have created them. Stephen Anderton is known to readers of The Times for his ability to take his readers around a garden in words, to show how it really feels to be there, using his scalpel wit to explore their beauty and what they do well, but never ignoring their problems and their failures.

With Anderton as a guide, you will certainly be provoked into visiting the gardens not just to see their glorious planting, but to look afresh at the designs and how they work, and to ask yourself, does this work for me? What would I do here? How would I have made this garden?

Gardens include Aberglasney, Llandeilo; Bodnant, Conwy Valley; Bodysgallen, Llandudno; Bodrhyddan, Rhuddlan; Cae Hir, Cribyn; Dewstow, Caergwent; Dyffryn Fernant, near Fishguard; Erdigg, Wrexham; Nant yr Eryd, Boncath; National Botanic Garden of Wales; Lower House, Hay-on-Wye; Plas Brondanw, Llanfrothen; Plas Cadnant, Menai Bridge; Plas Newydd, Llanfairpwll; Plas yn Rhiw, Pwllheli; Powis Castle, Welshpool; Ridlers Garden, Swansea; The Dingle, Welshpool; Veddw House, Devauden; Wyndcliffe Court, Chepstow.

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Writer Stephen Anderton likes to walk into a garden and feel inspired by daring designs, quirkiness and innovation. –David Powell – Daily Post

Anderton’s wonderful guide is enough to make me get on the internet and start looking for B&Bs. His enthusiasm comes across in his new book which could grace any coffee table in style. –Emma Townshend – The Independent

A superb production with an opinionated and provocative text. –Stephen Lacey – The Telegraph