Colleen asked for some book suggestions after my last post. Here are some I've read and am happy to recommend:
Australian Readers Digest book - Back to Basics - ISBN 0 86449 028 3. This book has information about building, crafts, preserving, growing food, cooking and baking and a lot more.
The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery
The Permaculture Home Garden ISBN: 0-670-86599-Linda Woodrow
Easy Organic Gardening and Moon Planting by Lyn Bagnall. This is the best Australian organic gardening book I've read.
Backyard Self-sufficiency - Jackie French
Simple Living: One Couple's Search for a Better Life by Frank Levering and Wanda Urbanska
Home Comforts by Cheryl Mendelson
Simple Living Guide by Janet Luhrs, is not so much a practical guide but a guide to slowing down and reinvention.
Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin will transform the way you think about money.
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Warm Earth, Grass Roots and Earth Garden. All available at the newsagent and your local library, I hope. I will have an article in Warm Earth in January. In north America, Countryside magazine is one I enjoy very much. I had a friend who sent me a couple of copies from Canada.
I LOVE Countryside! I remember when I first opened it....no pretty colored pictures, etc....oh but once I started reading it was wonderful. I also enjoy Your Money Or Your Life and just recently went over it again. My husband and I are on a four year plan to get completely out of debt and this really helped. I wish I owned Carla Emery's book but I get it from the library whenever I need a fix! Thank you for the other suggestions...I'm going to look for some of them.
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Rhonda & Julia - Oh, yes! - Countryside is on of my favorite magazines, along with Herb Companion. And wouldn't you know - just after I decided that I would let my current magazine subscriptions run out (I don't subscribe to Countryside) and not subscribe to any new ones, I received an offer from them in the mail: 1 year for only $10.00!! Oh, the temptation!!
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Thank you soooo much for the list. My daughter is a librarian at a university, so I'll have her look for the books for me. Again thanks so much.
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Thanks for posting these for my mom, I will have to request these for her.
ReplyDeleteMolly (Coleen's daughter)
I have Carla Emery's book.Its a good book. I was sadden to hear of her death.
ReplyDeleteThanks for all you share.
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