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Books : 21st-century Smallholder: From Window Boxes to Allotments - How to Go Back to the Land without Leaving Home: From Window Boxes to Allotments - How to Go Back to the Land Without Leaving Home
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21st-century Smallholder: From Window Boxes to Allotments - How to Go Back to the Land without Leaving Home: From Window Boxes to Allotments - How to Go Back to the Land Without Leaving Home by: Paul Waddington List Price: £7.99 Vegetarian Books Price: £5.99 You Save: £2.00 (25%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 635 EAN: 9781905811168 ISBN: 1905811160 Label: Eden Project Children's Books Manufacturer: Eden Project Children's Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: March 11, 2008 Publisher: Eden Project Children's Books Studio: Eden Project Children's Books Sales Rank: 12486 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - DisappointedI was very disappointed with this book .... it didn't contain enough detailed information...its Ok for someone trying to do basic veg growing and energy saving but its title is misleading ...its not really about smallholding....... Rating:  - Excellent - Initially, I was going to slate this book, because it is very short on the 'how to' . But then I re-read it and changed my view. It is an excellent, inspirational, little book. It doesn't give you much by way of 'how to', but there are many 'how to' books out there. It does give you ideas, backed by sound logic of why you should be doing this. It also lays out the likely cost, hassle and expense of any venture you are likely to undertake. Then you can hunt down the 'how to' book and get on with the project. If you are concerned with what you eat and the current state of the planet, I recommend this book. It will set you on the path to doing something positive about it. And if we all do our bit... there's hope. Rating: - Wonderful summary of producing your own food and energyThis book is a great summary of the many different things you can do to become more self-sufficient. About how you can produce more of the stuff you need to live on, such as food and energy, instead of buying it all in. The style is one of a series of suggestions rather than prescriptions ('you can' rather than 'you must'). The suggestions all build upon each other, so that you can do just one simple thing on its own or a number of them together. The book itself is mainly explanatory text with a few diagrams and summary tables. This makes a nice change from many other 'how to' books which are full of glossy colour photographs, but short on informative explanations. However the book itself is not bland, as all the pages are ... Read More: Rating: - A super book!Paul Waddington's book is a guide to both the pitfalls and many pleasures of being a 21st century smallholder, no matter how small your holding happens to be. Practical, humerous and honest, his book avoids the 'preachy' style and tacit 'you should be feeling guilty about the way you live' attitude that tends to infuse some of the classic titles in the self-sufficiency library. The book does not claim to be an exhaustive 'how to' manual (and has a good bibliography of specific 'how to' titles), but gives a clear oversight of the various possibilities from raising your own fruit and veg or keeping livestock through to providing your own water supply, dealing with your own waste and having a CO2 neutral exsistence. It shows clearly what one can ... Read More: |
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