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I am a Master Composter and have spent more than a decade as a volunteer Community Compost adviser with Garden Organic and my local Council.
I'm a self employed Environmental Educator so I run workshops and events where I talk about compost, veg growing, chicken keeping, cooking, preserving and sustainable living. I also run crafts workshops and Forest School/outdoor play sessions in our wood.

We try to live a more self sufficient lifestyle here, as best we can, while still having a comfortable life and lots of fun.


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Tuesday 2 September 2008

The three books that changed my life for better (or greener)

On the INEBG forum there is currently an interesting thread asking which 3 books did the above.

Hmm 3 Books...have been thinking about this and 3 is REALLY hard !

But of all the books in my top 10...these are the formative 3..and interestingly I read them at quite a young age!

Complete Guide to Self Sufficiency
John Seymour

Read it when I was about 8 or so...my Dad and Mum had a copy and we used to refer to it A LOT on our smallholding. Nuff said I think!

Silent Spring Rachel Carson.

Read it when I was about 12 or 13? Scared the carp out of me..I could see it all happening around me and I KNEW there had to be a better way of farming/ growing food than this.

Lark Rise to Candleford. Flora Thompson

I read this when I was about 8 or 9...and I kept coming back to it over the years , wondering WHY we were no longer so connected to the land and our locality. It also contains some pretty good description of a lot of things which are quite useful Not an eco book as such, but a hugely influential one on me.

I will also add Heat ( George Monbiot) Shopped ( Joanna Blythman) Fast Food Nation (Eric Schlosser) Global Warming: The Complete Briefing (John Houghton) Not on the Label (Felicity Lawrence) The Great Food Gamble (John Humphrys)

oh and DEFINATELY Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (Barbara Kingsolver) Its a brilliant book!

If i hadn't already had my life changed I would have it in my top 3 I think!
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  1. Anonymous3 September 2008 at 08:29

    I must get the book Animal Vegetable Miracle. Only ten minutes before reading this I noted it down on my notepad because Lyn had mentioned it in the comments on the Down to Earth blog.

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  2. Compostwoman3 September 2008 at 09:04

    Its well worth the read!

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