Sustainable food / Michael Mobbs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mobbs, Michael.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organic gardening.

Self-reliant living.

Food.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney, N.S.W. : Choice Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this companion book to the bestselling Sustainable House, the attention is turned to reducing the carbon emissions associated with growing, processing, transporting, selling, and disposing of food. Using the author's personal experiences as its anchor, this handbook contains practical advice on establishing community and backyard vegetable gardens, keeping chooks and bees, and reducing water usage, along with insights into dealing with councils, sidelining supermarkets, and what pepole eat and why. A template is provided for those wishing to learn sustainability measures and put them

Contents:

Cover; About the Author; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Thinking about food; 2. Six garden essentials; 3. Urban farms; 4. Soil and compost; 5. Plants; 6. Water; 7. Chooks; 8. Bees; 9. How to deal with governments; 10. Why citizens must act now; 11. Where are we going?; Further reading; Image credits; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781742246185

1742246184

OCLC:

826854601