Australia is world-renowned for its often extraordinary and unique natural environment – including many of its plants and animals.This beautiful little book highlights an often overlooked, but just as remarkable, aspect of our natural world: Australia's fungi.Many are brightly coloured, some..
Sally Wise has been a passionate preserver of fruits and vegetables for over three decades.More than just a method to create nutritional food from seasonal produce, preserving is a way of life, a highly addictive hobby, and you too will become hooked.In A Year in a Bottle Sally bri..
Renowned cook, Sally Wise has always wanted her own cooking school, and her own farm, where she could grow the things she wants to cook with.One day she and her husband came across a property in Tasmania’s Derwent Valley with an orchard full of fruit trees, and a funny old chalet/cabin out the ..
Artisan Cheese Making at Home is the most ambitious and comprehensive guide to home cheese making, filled with easy-to-follow instructions for making mouthwatering cheese and dairy items. Renowned cooking instructor Mary Karlin has spent years working alongside the country’s most passionate artisa..
Gourmet restaurateur and vegan food expert Miyoko Schinner shares her secrets for making homemade nondairy cheeses that retain all the complexity and sharpness of their dairy counterparts while incorporating nutritious nuts and plant-based milks
Miyoko shows how to tease artisan flavors out of un..
The Australian Gardening Calendar is set to become your favourite garden tool. Whether you own a few pots, a vegie patch or a grand garden, it's just what you need: an easy-to-use, month-by-month guide to garden care, covering every climatic zone from the tropical north to the chilly south.Here ..
Backyard Poultry- Naturally by Alanna Moore3rd edition.What is the difference between a Frizzle and a Fav? a Pekin and a Polish? A Welsummer and a Wyandotte? How do you successfully determine the sex of day old chickens? What natural products can be used to treat lice infestations? And what ..
Known around the world as the food preserver's bible, the Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving is the ultimate guide to fresh preserving. Each edition is filled with fresh solutions for today's busy lifestyles to help everyone enjoy good food at the peak of flavor.The Ball Blue Book Guide to Prese..
A classic beginner's guide to fermenting just about anything.At last, a new edition of fermentation guru Sandor Katz's first published work, including all new, step-by-step photography.
A great introduction to fermenting foods at home, whether you're looking to expand your kitchen repertoire in..
Learn (and Break!) the Rules for Making Ipas, Sours, Belgian Beers, Porters, Barleywines, Lagers, Ancient Ales, and Gluten-Free BeersIn this colorful homebrewing guide, The Kitchn's Emma Christensen gives you the keys to the brewery. Start out by mastering the basic styles, like A Very Good IP..
Charcuterie The Craft of Salting Smoking and Curing by Michael Ruhlman and Biran PolcynCharcuterie exploded onto the scene in 2005 and encouraged an army of home cooks and professional chefs to start curing their own foods. This love song to animal fat and salt has blossomed into a bona fide cul..
Trust The Complete Book of Butchering, Smoking, Curing, and Sausage Making to ensure you get the most out of your beef, venison, pork, lamb, poultry, and goat.Everything you need to know about how to dress and preserve meat is right here. From slaughtering, to processing, to preserving in ways l..
In The Complete Mushroom Hunter, mushroom guru Gary Lincoff escorts you through the cultural and culinary history of the mushroom, hunting and identifying wild mushrooms, mushroom safety, and on to preparing and serving the fungi. Stunning photographs and Lincoff's fascinating anecdotes from the fie..
Two bestselling preserving books in one kitchen-friendly package. Sally Wise's great passion is for making preserves out of the seasonal produce she grows and buys.
Here, in two of her most popular books, A YEAR IN A BOTTLE and OUT OF THE BOTTLE, she shares some of her favourite recipes for tur..
The comprehensive handbook for dehydrating foods at home.Dehydrating is one of the most effective ways to preserve food for maximum nutrition at very low cost.Sales of dehydrators are soaring as many cooks reject the suspect ingredients in commercially prepared foods.Dehydrating with the..
How to Design and Build an Inexpensive System for Growing Plants in WaterFarmer Tyler show home DIYers how to build over a dozen hydroponics growing systems, some of which cost only a few dollars to make.DIY Hydroponic Gardens takes the mystery out of growing in water.With practical info..
The Beginner's Guide to Crafting Starters, Bread, Snacks, and Moreby John Moody and Jessica MoodyYour helping hand for adding simple, homemade, whole grain sourdough to your weekly schedule.Real life is busy enough without having social media-worthy sourdough on your to-do list. But if y..
Yogurt, sauerkraut, dill pickles, cheese, and wine are popular fermented foods that are not only delicious but also provide important health benefits.Fermented foods are rich in probiotics, which stimulate the growth of friendly bacteria that help balance intestinal flora and promote digestive h..
The only guide you need to making fermented foods and drinks by a pioneer of the whole food movementWhat does your favourite farmhouse cheese have in common with crusty sourdough bread, a glass of sparkling ginger beer or a bowl of marinated olives? The answer is each is a product of fermentatio..
Fermentation Probiotics Guide - Stefan Mager laminated chart and reference guide
This chart features moulds, bacteria, fermentation processes, history of fermentation, health benefits of fermentation, generic fermentation instructions, wild fermentation, starter cultures, probiotics, prebiotics, fu..
70 Easy Recipes for sauerkraut, kombucha, kimchi and more.Written by Sebastian Bureau & David CoteEverything you need to know about fermentation to start a little revolution in your pantry! Fermentation is one of the hottest kitchen trends of the past two years, and for good reason - ferment..
For the first time, a definitive field guide covering more than 500 fungi species with 548 superb colour photographs. All fungi photographed in their natural environment - many for the first time with information on fungal biology, ecology, classification, distribution, roles of fungi in nature, and..
Popular food blogger Marisa McClellan takes you through all manner of food in jars, storing away the tastes of all seasons for later.Basics like jams and jellies are accompanied by pickles, chutneys, conserves, whole fruit, tomato sauces, salsas, marmalades, nut butters, seasonings, and more. Sm..
As the wellness world is going nuts for guts, naturopath and herb nerd Reece Carter offers traditional holistic remedies you can make at home as well as “food as medicine’ recipes to help treat a range of everyday gut ailments.The whole wellness world is going nuts for guts, and with good reason..
This completely revised and updated edition of the best-selling classic features detailed sausage-making instructions for a range of techniques and 100 recipes for pork, beef, lamb, veal, wild game, poultry, seafood, and vegetarian sausages; plus 100 recipes for cooking with sausage.Home Sausage..
Sprouts are easy to grow and can be grown in just about any type of kitchen, even on the road while camping! They are packed with nutrition and also make the perfect survival food, able to provide essential vitamins and minerals within days providing fresh water is on hand.Homegrown Sprouts is ..
Bee keeping isn't just for the professional farmer-bees can be kept in any situation from simple backyards and rooftops to large expanses of farmland.Discover whether honey beekeeping is right for you, and find out everything you need to know to keep and acquire bees in this updated guide.Ho..
From field to table, The Hunter's Guide to Butchering, Smoking, and Curing Wild Game and Fish gives you all you need to know to harvest your big game, small game, fowl, and fish.Expert Philip Hasheider shows you how to turn your hard-earned hunt into delicious cuisine.Truly avid hunters ar..
Jack has researched 41 of the breeds of cattle which you would be most likely to see grazing Britain's farms. They are presented here in a handy reference guide. For each animal, he gives a description of their appearance, a brief history and considers their uses today. In this title, each text is a..
Know Your Chickensby Jack ByardThis title introduces 44 breeds of chicken which can be seen pecking and preening in Britain today. Jack accompanies each with a description of the animal's appearance and explains the different colours and patterns which appear within the breed. Jack has tho..
In this sheep breeds book Jack Byard takes us alphabetically through 40 of the breeds which are the most likely to be seen on British farms (and as many Australian breeds originate in Britain the content is relevant in the Australian context).For each breed he dedicates two pages, the left being..
Compiled from previously published books and in a handy, pocket-sized format, this is a fresh look at Henry Brewis’s fondest enemy: the mule yow.Each pair of pages has a Brewis cartoon on one page with one of his verses or snippets facing it. They writings and drawings complement each other as t..
Make your own traditional artisan cheese, butter and yoghurt
Traditional English cheeses are finally getting the attention they deserve and this book helps you enjoy the process and the product at home.
No complicated equipment or ingredients or premises are needed to make cheeses as this excellen..
Mastering Fermentation Book by Mary Karlin A beautifully illustrated and authoritative guide to the art and science of fermented foods, featuring 70+ recipes that progress from simple fermented condiments like vinegars and mustards to more advanced techniques for using wild yeast, fermenting me..
This Guide provides all the information you need to start growing and harvesting a wide variety of microgreens in an easy-to-follow format. Both soil and hydroponic growing methods are presented with step-by-step illustrations.The Microgreens Growing Guide Chart discusses 28 Microgreen seed vari..
This beautifully presented book gives readers the nitty-gritty guide for five diverse ways to nourish ourselves from stewarding nature's abundance.Do you want to know how to grow your own food? Or how to keep bees? How to forage for edible seaweed along the shoreline, or wild greens down by the ..
Explains how to use medicinal herbs and essential oils to fight infectious illness, strengthen the immune system, and combat antibiotic resistancePresents 18 of the most potent antibiotic and antiviral herbs and one beehive remedy, propolis, detailing how to use them and what illnesses each is b..
Natural Farming carries a simple but widely overlooked message: healthy soil makes healthy plants, which in turn make healthy animals and healthy people. The book explores the consequences in the soil of applications of superphosphate and other artificial fertilisers over decades, and explains soil ..
After years of addressing questions reducing sugar, substituting sugar, and leaving it out altogether, accomplished canner and author Marisa McClellan began to rejigger her recipes, helping her home canners enjoy the flavors of the season without the refined sugars. The result is Naturally Sweet Foo..
Nourishing Traditions The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet DictocratsA full-spectrum nutritional cookbook with a startling message animal fats and cholesterol are vital factors in the human diet, necessary for reproduction and normal growth, proper function of..
The Garden Seed Saving Guide - Easy Heirloom Seeds for the Home GardenerAt a time where commercial forces have increased control over the food supply by patenting seeds with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), seed saving has become an important skill to encourage and share.
Longtime organic..
Pickling Everything Foolproof Recipes for Sour, Sweet, Spicy, Savory, Crunchy, Tangy Treats by Leda MeredithLearn to pickle everything, from the author of Preserving EverythingSimple recipes for both fermented and vinegar-based picklesPickling is more than a form of food preservatio..
Pickling Everything Foolproof Recipes for Sour, Sweet, Spicy, Savory, Crunchy, Tangy Treats by Leda MeredithLearn to pickle everything, from the author of Preserving EverythingSimple recipes for both fermented and vinegar-based picklesPickling is more than a form of food preservatio..
Practical Self-Sufficiency: An Australian Guide To Sustainable LivingAUTHOR: STRAWBRIDGE DICK & JAMESPractical Self Sufficiency is a wonderfully useful and accessible title that contains something for absolutely everyone!This guide offers clear step by step advice and contains: Th..
In this practical guide, Phyllis Hobson covers everything you need to know to successfully raise a calf for beef.Hobson offers expert advice on choosing a calf, housing and pasture, nutrition, routine maintenance, and medical care, as well as techniques for slaughtering and butchering.With j..
In this newly revised and updated edition of Real Food Fermentation, discover how to preserve your favourite foods in every season with simple techniques and recipes. Learn the process of fermentation from start to finish, and stock your pantry and refrigerator with delicious fermented fruits, ..
Do you eye that derelict patch of ground on your way to work and dream of turning it into a vegetable garden?
Do you love living in the city but fantasise about keeping hens?
Do you look at the weeds by the bus stop and wonder if they'd make a nice salad?
Then you're a rurbanite. You have a passi..
Sourdough Recipes for Rustic Fermented Breads, Sweets, Savories and More by Sarah Owens101 recipes for baking with whole and sprouted grains, making the most of the seasonal harvest, and healing the body through naturally fermented food
Sarah Owens spent years baking conventional baked goods..