"Wise Words & Country Ways for House and Home" contains generations of advice on simple ways to run an environmentally-friendly home, based around well known, and not so well known, sayings. Everyone is keen to reduce their carbon footprint, conserve resources, eat and live more healthily. Ruth Binney's fascinating collection of traditional wisdom shares how our forbears lived well within the resources available. With advice on using everyday items as alternatives to expensive chemical products and tips on eco-friendly gardening and cooking, discover how to recapture that bygone age when life was simpler, less wasteful, less expensive, less toxic and more fulfilling. Illustrated with delightful line drawings throughout, "Wise Words & Country Ways for House and Home" shows us a better, more green way to live in the modern world.
- ISBN10 0715332848
- ISBN13 9780715332849
- Publish Date 25 September 2009
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 July 2015
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint David & Charles
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 208
- Language English