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Learn how to make compost gold from the master of healthy soil. Charles Dowding puts feeding the soil at the heart of his No Dig method of growing. He explains how to use your kitchen and garden waste to make homemade compost so that your plants can truly flourish. Discover what you can compost...

Read by GBBO winner and author, Nancy Birtwhistle With Nancy Birtwhistle, it IS easy being green. Clean Magic is a complete guide with practical and down-to-earth advice on how to integrate Nancy’s tried and tested household tips into your daily life. From sorting stubborn stains to Basic...

Bloomsbury presents Potholes and Pavements written and read by Laura Laker. Just wonderful – two wheels good, Laura Laker brilliant. Part travel diary, part love poem to Britain's cycle network ... it's difficult not to be inspired by this fabulous book.' Jeremy Vine 'With a passion for both...

Brought to you by Penguin. How can we eat well without harming the planet? The way we produce food today is damaging people and nature alike. Modern, intensive farming systems producing pesticide-laced, ultra-processed foods are bad for us and bad for the planet. But there is cause for hope...

Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In Blue Mind, Wallace J. Nichols revolutionizes how we think about these questions, revealing the remarkable truth about the benefits of being in, on, under, or simply near water.

Bloomsbury presents Floating Home by Adam Lind, read by Adam Lind with Melanie Crawley and David Thorpe. 'A beautiful book' Joe Sugg 'Honest and tender' Poppy Okotcha 'An invitation to slow down' TJ Power 'Soulful, sincere, and full of quiet truths' Joshua Fletcher Are you living with purpose?...

Architect Laura Jane Clark, from the BBC and Netflix smash-hit series Your Home Made Perfect, has spent over 15 years designing, remodelling, and building homes with budgets that range from modest to enormous. The Handbook of Home Design distils Laura's wealth of experience and enthusiasm giving you an accessible yet detailed guide to design, empowering you with the tools and knowledge to shape your home how you want.

Growing on just one and a half acres, owners Jean-Martin and Maude-Helène feed more than 200 families through their thriving CSA and seasonal market stands and supply their signature mesclun salad mix to dozens of local establishments. The secret of their success is the low-tech, high-yield production methods they've developed by focusing on growing better rather than growing bigger, making their operation more lucrative and viable in the process.

The story of a personal housing crisis that led to a discovery of the true value of home. Aged 31, Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she shared with four other adults and a child. Working several jobs and never knowing if she could make the rent, she felt like she was breaking apart. Homesick for the landscape of her childhood, in the far west of Cornwall, Catrina decides to give up the box-room and face her demons. As a child, she saw her family and their security torn apart; now, she resolves to make a tiny, dilapidated shed a home of her own.

The fundamentals of permaculture are simple: care for people and the Earth, and share what you have. With these in mind, practitioners promote a system with a sense of respect for all life on the planet. You may, however, be anxious about not knowing what to do. After all, not everybody knows about permaculture. But don’t worry–you don’t need to be an expert to start your own permaculture garden.

Brought to you by Penguin. Stay green, stay gorgeous! In his debut book, gardening enthusiast Jonny Hincks – known by over 2 million followers online as @gardenwithjonny – brings his signature humour, relatable advice and down-to-earth, no-fuss approach to gardening with one aim: for you to...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An imperative call to action” (Nick Offerman) to get children off their screens and into nature, with tips for bonding activities that teach the importance of outside time and build tough, curious, competent kids—from the host of the Netflix series and...

Picture this: you open your closet and it doesn’t look like a fabric avalanche waiting to bury you alive. Your kitchen counters are so clear you could actually roll out cookie dough on them. And your garage… well, it no longer resembles a crime scene where old bicycles and half-broken lawn chairs go to die.

Call it "Zen and the Art of Farming" or a "Little Green Book", Masanobu Fukuoka's manifesto about farming, eating, and the limits of human knowledge presents a radical challenge to the global systems we rely on for our food. At the same time, it is a spiritual memoir of a man whose innovative system of cultivating the earth reflects a deep faith in the wholeness and balance of the natural world. As Wendell Berry writes in his preface, the book "is valuable to us because it is at once practical and philosophical."

Bloomsbury presents The Sustainable(ish) Living Guide written and read by Jen Gale. Easy, do-able, down to earth ideas and suggestions for everyone to help save the planet. If you want to save the planet, but your to-do list is already pretty long and remembering your re-usable coffee cup feels...

Do you wake up tired, inflamed, or frustrated by chronic symptoms that just won’t budge? You’re not alone—and there’s a better way. In Fasting Secrets for Chronic Conditions, wellness advocate Tina Shelton reveals the science-backed strategies that helped her and her loved ones reclaim their health through the power of fasting.

Even if we've never had direct contact with one, we will have seen one, or at the very least, heard one. For those of us who live in the Western world, it is more than likely that one sleeps in our house, possibly even on our bed. I'm talking, of course, of the dog. Yet, this animal, which lives alongside 500 million of us all over the world - as an invaluable partner and a trusted confidant - presents us with one great unsolved mystery: how did this relationship - the most complex and enduring of any between human and animal - start in the first place?

From Tap to Treasure by Lima Afroza is a practical and easy-to-follow guide for anyone who wants to use water more wisely at home. Instead of just telling you to save water, this book shows you how to actually do it in real life. In this audiobook, you’ll learn how to check your home’s water usage, understand where water is being wasted, and make simple but effective changes. It walks you through useful systems like greywater recycling and rainwater harvesting in a clear, step-by-step way.

Put your money where your mouth is when it comes to handling your finances and join the Female Invest trio on a mission to investigate sustainable stocks and funds, angel investing, and empowering initiatives - for both you and the planet. Cutting through the noise, this trusted resource will rationalize the vast scope of the term "sustainable investing", and consider how investments, funds, stocks, and shares can be responsible, ethical, green, and impactful - enabling you to partake in a truly circular economy.

Dirt Rich Living: From Corporate Cubicles to Udder Chaos is the brutally honest, often hilarious story of starting over the hard way. With no manual, no backup plan, and no clue what he’s doing, Morgan shares the flubs, the breakthroughs, and the grace that comes from betting big on yourself.