ALL THIS, TIME, THE ANSWER HAS BEEN UNDER OUR FEET!

Using the very latest information from the world's leading agricultural research centres (including Australia's own CSIRO), Earthworms in Australia provides a comprehensive and easily understood guide for gardeners, farmers, conservationists and aspiring worm farmers.

Manual — How to Build Your Own with Superadobe/Earthbag

"Emergency Sandbag Shelter" is a must-have manual for every home, as an emergency guide.

Now for the first time this book is made available to people around the world by its inventor, award-winning architect Nader Khalili, whose specialty was skyscrapers and who has now dedicated his life to teaching how to build shelter for humanity.

The book, with over 700 photos and illustrations, shows how to use sandbags and barbed wire, the materials of war, for peaceful purposes as the new invention known as Superadobe or earth-bag, which can shelter millions of people around the globe as a temporary as well as permanent housing solution.

Energy from Nature
14th edition!

If you've ever wanted to understand solar, wind or hydropower, this is the book for you.

Over 30,000 copies sold worldwide.

The book includes a CD of the
Rainbow Power Website with over 3000 pages
of information on Renewable Energy, energy efficiency, electrical theory, overseas rural development and available products.

Few governments or industries have yet taken the threat of world-wide environmental pollution seriously or taken appropriate action in dealing with the problem.

The staff of the Rainbow Power Company are united in our endeavour to demonstrate that it is possible to live a reasonably comfortable lifestyle in an environmentally sustainable way.

This book covers many practical facets of self-sufficiency and informs readers about survival foods. Isabell shows how we all can be prepared for hard times, no matter what the future may bring.

Self-sufficiency is one means of reclaiming our responsibility. We all must reclaim the knowledge and ability to grow our own food to provide for ourselves and our families.

This book is a practical 'survival manual' for every home. Isabell will encourage you to see the importance of being prepared. She urges everyone to have an emergency plan in place and to be equipped. The future may bring us many challenges, including possible food and energy shortages and other unforseen calamities. Families can learn to grow as much as they are able, and also to put in place some food security for these uncertain times.

Today is the right time to get started.

Health is not merely the absence of disease; it is enjoying optimum vitality, as long as we have life.

Degenerative diseases plague many people, today. We need to realise that pills and surgery are not fixing the problems. What we eat, as living food, has more power over disease and ageing than any medicine the doctor may prescribe. What we can all do, is correct the acid/alkaline balance in the body, and sprouts are the easiest, most economical way to do it... it's so easy... every person can do it.

Our health care system must be health care... promoting prevention, education, personal responsibility, and providing practical ways for every person to achieve optimum health. This book will challenge you to make quality food choices, to nourish true health, to create a healthier and more vibrant life.

Over 500 herbs, spices and edible plants. An Australian, practical guide to growing, with culinary and medicinal uses.

Isabell writes from her extensive experience, personal observation, wealth of knowledge on herbs, and brings them 'to life' for the reader. Her abounding enthusiasm is contagious, which encourages people to be more self-reliant and self-sufficient in food and medicine; it truly is a life enhancing book, for every person interested in natural health. The book has some amusing, fascinating folklore, and anecdotal true-life incidences of benefits people have experienced with using herbs, which will inspire all readers. The book is totally engrossing with practical ways of using herbs and edibles, a valuable investment in health and well-being.

What makes an honourable man and who are the heroes of our time? Five in-depth stories of seven remarkable men allow us to explore the concept of hero. Mythical heroes went on dangerous adventures fighting legendary battles and monsters. Modern heroes face frontiers of a different kind.

The seven men who tell their story in In Search of Heroes shine with spirit and passion. They are men of integrity and contributors to their community. Their inner and outer journeys both reflect and inspire our own.

This is a guide to some of the naturally occurring plants of North West Tasmania, using bold, clear photographs, all taken in the region.

The informative text includes information for plant identification as well as propagation and cultivation tips.

This full colour guide is a good start for those contemplating a revegetation programme for degraded bushland, or for those who would like local plants in their garden.

This book looks at Australian farm enterprises where Natural Farming techniques are being successfully applied in a commercial context – in a way which not only pays financial returns but also enhances the lifestyles of all those associated with it.

These farmers are working in sectors ranging from broadacre wheatgrowing, through cattle and sheep to fruit and nuts, poultry and herbs. Some are Natural Farming veterans with decades of experience.

Natural Farming is farming with Nature... without resorting to sythetic chemicals or fertilisers, and in a way which is compatible with the environment in which we farm.

It comes under various names – organic, biological, ecological. It might be the highly specialised Bio-Dynamic farming. It might be ruled by Permaculture design principles.

Whatever the name, Natural Farming techniques share common goals and are likely to be based on similar underlying philosophies. First among these is reduced consumption of non-renewable resources. The system must be "sustainable".

More and more, Australia's farmers are turning to Natural Farming techniques as they realise that they must stop the destruction of what degraded soils remain to them.

There is much to be learned from the experiences of the successful farmers we meet in these pages.

Second Edition

Now in its second edition and completely updated, Pests of the Garden and Small Farm adapts scientifically based integrated pest management techniques to the needs of the home gardener and small-scale farmer.

Featuring more than 250 color photographs of pests and more than 100 black and white drawings and photographs, this book enables you to identify pests quickly – and to prevent, correct, or live with most common pest problems. Crop tables at the back describe major pests on 30 vegetable and fruit tree crops and refer you to specific pages for more detail.

The book's approach minimizes the use of broad-spectrum pesticides, relying primarily on alternatives such as

• biological control
• resistant varieties
• traps and barriers
• less toxic pesticides such as soaps, oils, and microbials
• changing planting, irrigation, or cultivating procedures
• other preventive measures
  

Pesticide Risk in the Lucky Country

This exposé of the impacts of a variety of poisons on ill-informed users and a mostly unsuspecting public will both shock and inform. For the first time, concern about termites and potential crop losses from insect attack is weighed against the trauma suffered by the increasing number of people exposed to pesticides through food, air and water contamination.

After six years of research Kate Short brings her exhaustive study of the topic into public view. She presents the facts about pesticide risk in a clear and concise manner, all the time backing up her case by reference to a variety of reports and studies, including crucial European and US research. The author argues that the risk to exports from poison residues could upset the livelihood of many in the rurual sector.

By letting those affected speak, through a variety of case studies, Quick Poison, Slow Poison presents the human face of the pesticide risk equation and reveals what has often been a litany of corporate deceit and government inaction.

Compost is not garbage you forgot to put out - it's a balanced mix of organic materials that benefits your garden. In this new edition of The Compost Book, David Taylor divulges the secrets of good compost-making. Whether you live in the city or the country, you will learn

• the type of compost which suits your soil
• the ideal materials for making compost
• the correct structure of a compost heap
• what to do if your compost stinks or is vermin-infested

Whatever size your backyard or balcony, this book will help you make a difference to your garden and the environment.

Michel and Jude Fanton, the founders of Australia's Seed Savers' Network, show how gardeners can protect our global food heritage – and eat it too.

They describe the seed collecting, growth cycles, propagation, cultivation and traditional kitchen and medicinal uses of over one hundred vegetables, culinary herbs and edible flowers.