A Greener Life: A Modern Country Compendium

Description

A Greener Life is a comprehensive guide to being more self-sufficient in everyday life. Informative, witty and practical, this inspirational book shows readers how to adopt a more natural and harmonious way of life regardless of the size of their home or garden. Readers will learn to grow their own vegetables, use alternative energies, learn to knit, use natural paints, keep livestock and bees, and much more. From baking bread to home brewing, A Greener Life shows readers how to live the good life in a healthy, organic way.

Author description

Clarissa Dickson Wright, formerly of 'Two Fat Ladies' fame, has seven cookery books and one "Food Anthology" to her name. Since then she has starred with Johnny Scott in three series of "Clarissa and the Countryman" for BBC2 and they have co-authored three books on the series: "Clarissa and the Countryman," "Sally Forth" and "Sunday Roast." Johnny Scott is a keen shot and excellent horseman. As a farmer, naturalist and historian, he has written for many newspapers and magazines. He studied farming on three continents, was a jackaroo, miner, lumberjack and brakeman in the British bobsleigh team before returning to farm hefted black-face sheep in southern Scotland.