Practical Self Sufficiency - An Australian Guide to Sustainable Living
Dick and James Strawbridge
This is a great manual for self-sufficiency in Australia, with practical, well-illustrated ideas, advice
and instructions on a very wide range of important self-sufficiency subjects. If you had one book to turn
to in your self-sufficiency adventure, this one would be a great choice. Included is a wealth of
information in a very readable format, with chapters covering everything from building and energy to
animal husbandry and craft. Chapters include building, energy and waste; animal husbandry; gardening and
crafts and much more.
Here’s a sample of what’s included: you’ll get practical advice on solar, wind and water
energy; learn how to make biodiesel; use sand filters for spring water and reed beds to manage waste; set
up a well-equipped shed; work with fencing and netting; make charcoal; install small-scale irrigation
systems; and crafts including woodworking, mending and working with natural fibres.
Out in the garden there’s what vegetables to grow; crop rotation; companion planting; storing
the harvest; keeping bees, worms and chickens; and fodder crops to grow. In your eco-kitchen you’ll
soon be making cheese, brewing beer, curing meat and fish and producing your own natural remedies.
Bursting with ideas, know-how and enthusiasm, this will be both an indispensable guide and an entertaining
read for anyone keen on aiming toward self-sufficiency. Well-illustrated throughout with colour photographs
and detailed line drawings. 304pp
BP142
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Backyard Self-sufficiency
Jackie French
Completely revised 2nd edition 2009
Jackie French’s entertaining and practical style makes this book a thoroughly enjoyable read as
well as one of the most useful gardening books you’ll find. Armed with this book there’s
no reason why you can’t have a beautiful, bountiful garden producing most of your fruit and veggies
all year round.
Among the many very useful chapters there’s a garden calendar suggesting activities for each
climate zone each month; a guide to growing staple food crops including plants to provide oil for
cooking and eating; which fruit trees to grow in different climate zones; small animals for small
gardens; organic pest control; recipes for making the most of your harvest and heaps more. There are also
answers to such crucial gardening questions as “how much do I plant?”. This book is crammed
full of valuable information and advice backed up by personal experience. Transform your garden into one
as productive and full of life as Jackie’s! 192pp
BB102
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How can I be Prepared with Self-Sufficiency and Survival Foods?
Isabell Shipard
Includes practical hands on immediate skills such as how to plant an edible garden, seed saving tips,
using edible weeds and bush tucker, herbs for health and healing, sprouting techniques, how to prepare a
72 hour survival kit and much more.
This book offers encouragement to be as self-sufficient as one is able and an action plan to help you 'ride
the storms'. Isabell shows you how to be prepared with a step-by-step emergency management plan for food provisions
and essential supplies. This is a critical manual with practical information on plants, plans and recipes to help
us survive in a toxic world, and face other hazards that may threaten our health, security and sanity in the
21st Century. 136pp
BH113
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