We got home from playgroup today to find some books I'd ordered had turned up- 'Backyard Self-Sufficiency', 'Chook Wisdom', 'The Earth Garden Water Book' and 'Strawbale Building'. They're from The Good Life Book Club which has soooo many books I want!
The last three books are publications from Earth Garden magazine, and 'Backyard Self-Sufficiency' is by Jackie French. I've finished the chook one, and just started the Jackie French one.
I just wanted to share this quote from the end of the introduction.
I have two images of suburban life today.
The first is of a neat house set in a mown lawn with trimmed shrubs and a sandpit; a clean kitchen with yesterday's take-away containers on the sink; and the latest videos to fill your life after dinner.
The second is of a suburban jungle: a maze of tangled apple trees and grape vines, carpets of strawberries, and kids with mulberry-stained faces who don't come inside till dark. You trip over a box of apples in the laundry, and the kitchen smells of summer tomatoes and of the basil on the window sill.
The kitchen shelves are full, and so are the lives of the inhabitants.
The richness of our lives depends on our surroundings and what we fill them with.
2 comments:
oh that book sounds great! I love Jackie French.... she seems so 'real' in her approach. Was it expensive?
http://www.goodlifebookclub.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=53&osCsid=a9b588574fa26890fa168f693dd334a4
$18.95
Recommended :)
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