GROW TO LIVE: A SIMPLE GUIDE TO GROWING YOUR OWN GOOD, CLEAN FOOD

Pat Featherstone, Jacana Media Eating the freshest food straight from your own garden is budget friendly and, experts agree, much healthier. This illustrated guide by pat Featherstone of Soil for Life provides clear, encouraging and easy-to-follow guidelines on growing your own food using little more than your own kitchen and garden waste. Available at most bookstores or directly from Soil for Life www.soilforlife.co.za

THE CARBON SUPER MARKET: YOUR FUTURE FOR SALE

kate Evans

Environmental cartoonist and author of the brilliant ‘Funny Weather: Everything you Didn’t Want to Know About climate change But probably Should Find out’, explains carbon trading and its implications in easy to understand comic book style. As Kate says, if you didn’t care about the carbon trading before, you will now. A must read and free for download (3.6MB) at www.cartoonkate.co.uk

ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE: OUR YEAR OF SEASONAL EATING

Barbara kingsolver,
Faber & Faber

After 25 years, Barbara Kingsolver and her family move from the deserts of Arizona to farmland in Kansas to live in a place where they could eat food grown in their own neighbourhood. So starts their journey to eat local – and from their own gardens. This engaging and amusing account of includes valuable tips and delicious recipes. First published in 2007, it is more than relevant today as we learn more about what is really in the food we buy. ISBN 978-0-57123357-1