For anyone wanting to find 'the good life' in their garden, allotment or even a window box - a practical, accessible and stylish guide to growing food and living sustainably.
Paul Waddington is the author of Seasonal Food and Shades of Green. He is also a newspaper columnist and professional writer. He takes a deep interest in food and environmental issues and grows vegetables, keeps bees and lives as sustainably as possible in Yorkshire.
Wittily written and very inspiring, full of sensible tips on
everything from windowboxes to pickling your produce. It's a
21st-century version of John Seymour's Complete Book of
Self-Sufficiency ...
*Guardian, Gardening section*
...a charmingly written, practical guide to setting up an urban
smallholding, allowing readers to indulge Good Life fantasies,
however small their balcony or window box.
*The Times*
A handbook packed full of green advice...Aesthetically pleasant
guides to growing and raising your own food accompany serious food
for thought on how you can, and why you should make a
difference.
*The Ecologist*
Beautifully written and illustrated, the 21st Century Smallholder
is the bible for today's Tom and Barbara Good and anyone else who
wants to live the dream.
*The Environment Magazine*
If you have space for just a window-box, 21st Century Smallholder
is for you. Subtitled "How to Go Back to the Land Without Leaving
Home", it offers exactly what it says on the cover.
*FT magazine*
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