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The essential guide to budget gardening hacks, with creative ideas and propagation know-how from Instagram's "garden fairy" Anya Lautenbach. Beat the rising cost of living and transform your garden on a budget with Anya the Garden Fairy. The Money-Saving Gardener reveals the tips and tricks to...

Read by the author, Emily Cunningham. How can we save the ocean? And how can the ocean save us? From protecting nesting sea turtles on the beaches of Sri Lanka and deep-sea diving in the icy waters of Antarctica to taking school children in England to see the sea for the first time...

Transform Your Urban Space into a Thriving Homestead—No Experience Needed! Turn your backyard, balcony, or tiny space into a haven of growth, resilience, and sustainability. This guide is packed with practical strategies for busy families to maximize small spaces, save money, and embrace eco-friendly living. Inside, you'll discover: Easy gardening tips for beginners. Budget-friendly ways to start your homestead. Natural pest control methods. Food preservation techniques for small kitchens. Kid-friendly homesteading projects. How to keep chickens in urban backyards.

In the spirit of The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning and The Joy of Less, experience the benefits of buying less and sharing more with this accessible 7-step guide to decluttering, saving money, and creating community from the creators of the Buy Nothing Project. In their island community...

Say goodbye to black-thumbitis! With this guide, you'll transform into a vegetable growing master. Ready to witness your garden flourish? Download this audiobook now and let the green journey begin!

Minimal makes simple and sustainable living attainable for everyone, using practical tips for all areas of everyday life to reduce your impact on the Earth. Leading environmentalist Madeleine Olivia shares her insights on how to care for yourself in a more eco-friendly way as well as how to introduce a mindful approach to your habits. This includes how to declutter your life, reduce your waste and consumption, recipes for eating seasonally and making your own natural beauty and cleaning products.

The landmark book about the toxicity of everyday life, updated, revised and re-issued for its 10th anniversary, along with the experiments from Smith and Lourie's second book, Toxin Toxout. It's amazing how little can change in a decade. In 2009, a book transformed the way we see our frying pans...

“Reynolds gives us a much-needed reason for hope. The gardener, the conservationist, the city planner, and the nature lover will all be inspired for this wonderful book shows how thousands of even small wildlife friendly gardens can provide habitat for embattled wildlife around the world.”...

Are you tired of splurging on expensive store-bought preserved foods, even though your garden is overflowing with fresh produce? Do you dream of a pantry filled with homemade flavors but need help determining where to begin? Do you want to embrace a healthier, more self-sufficient lifestyle but get overwhelmed by complex food preservation processes? If you nodded to these questions, you are just in the right place! Historically, food preservation was a necessity. It also guarantees that you and your loved ones can always have nutrient-rich meals.

In his first all-new book in 15 years, Eliot Coleman returns organic farming to its ethical roots, exploring the very soul of organic growing. In The Self-Fed Farm and Garden, he presents the organic method as a self-sustaining system rooted in soil health care and shows listeners how they can shift to a self-fed model that continually recharges the soil with organic matter, thus allowing the soil food web to provide all the nutrients crops need for healthy growth and excellent yields.

A practical and comprehensive guide to surviving the greatest disaster of our time, from New York Times bestselling self-help author and beloved CBS Sunday Morning science and technology correspondent David Pogue. You might not realize it, but we’re already living through the beginnings of...

Learn how to grow big veg with Gerald Stratford, the gardening grandad loved by over a quarter of a million fans on Twitter. Gerald's book is packed with decades of gardening know-how from his Cotswolds garden. It includes a helpful month-by-month guide to sowing, planting and harvesting veg, as well as tips on how to grow Gerald's speciality: really big veg. Full of encouragement and Gerald's infectious enthusiasm, Big Veg makes an ideal companion for anyone keen to grow-your-own.

In Ecological Intelligence: How Knowing the Hidden Impacts of What We Buy Can Change Everything, Daniel Goleman recasts the uproar over global warming and the assault of man-made toxins into our bodies in terms of the collective self-deception which both created this crisis and holds a key to...

Climate change anxiety is one of the biggest mental health threats of our times. If you find it hard to tear yourself away from doomscrolling, or it feels impossible not to worry about the world we are leaving to future generations, then you are not alone. Surviving Climate Anxiety is the essential guide to coping with the psychological toll of the environmental crisis. In this helpful and ground-breaking book, the world's leading climate anxiety expert, psychologist Dr Thomas Doherty, shares the pioneering techniques he has developed to help you.

In this practical guide, you will discover how mushrooms develop, cultivation techniques, ideal soil and climatic conditions, the best species to grow at home, and the exceptional health benefits of some varieties. Not many know how easy it is to grow tasty mushrooms independently in their own homes. Most people prefer to buy mushrooms of dubious origin in shopping malls rather than organically self-producing the healthiest and tastiest species.

Does your home feel like it's working against you instead of for you? You started with the best intentions to get organized and declutter. Every bin, every box, every pile of things set aside for later made sense at the time. But somewhere between the baby gear and the teenage years, the sports equipment and the college send-off, your home quietly fills up with material things, and now it feels heavier than it should. You love your family. You love your home. But managing it all has become exhausting, and you are not sure where to begin.

This book introduces permaculture gardening, a sustainable and economical approach to cultivating a self-sufficient garden in any living space. It emphasizes using available resources to live harmoniously with nature, contributing positively to the environment by growing organic produce, conserving water, and nurturing local ecosystems. The book offers practical solutions for overcoming issues like high costs, limited space, and time constraints, enabling a transition to abundance, self-sufficiency, and environmental stewardship.

In this four-manuscripts-in-one audiobook, learn the five different ways to preserve your food: canning, freezing, pickling, fermenting, and dehydrating; understand the basics and nuances of smoking meat; learn what root cellars are and how they work; and discover the importance and benefits of fermentation, with 75 healthy recipes to help you make tasty kombucha, sourdough, pickles, and more.

Build a flourishing wildlife sanctuary with eco-friendly landscaping secrets, no matter the size of your outdoor space. Whether renting a cramped apartment balcony or managing a suburban lot, you can cultivate a sensory escape right outside your door. Tune out the daily grind and immerse...

Personally attached to Zen Buddhism, wabi-sabi is a style that invites solace and an unpretentious otherworldliness into the home. It's anything but an embellishing style, fundamentally, yet a mentality. To establish a genuine wabi-sabi climate, one must gradually strip away overabundance and figure out how to be fulfilled living at the same time. Wabi-Sabi Home describes the rich history of this arising pattern in home plans and uncovers endless ways of bringing wabi-sabi components into contemporary residing spaces.