From the author of The Humanure Handbook, an expert guide to compost toilets you can build yourself The Compost Toilet Handbook is an illustrated instructional manual explaining how to make, use, and manage compost toilets, which are waste-free toilets that rely on the biological process of composting to recycle toilet material. It is based on…
A soup-to-nuts guide to straw bale construction, written by the founders of the Spanish Straw Bale Network Straw bale buildings are warm in winter and cool in summer. The natural materials used create beautiful healthy homes that also have a low environmental impact. Highly affordable for self-builders, in professional construction, the relationship between quality, price,…
A range of useful shrubs for different niches, sites, and functions–in gardens and on homesteads and farms World-renowned expert Martin Crawford covers common fruit bushes like currants and gooseberries, and includes many other less-known shrubs with edible fruits, nuts, leaves, or other parts. He takes us on a journey into the world of exotic spice…
A classic text on slate roof construction, now back in print Master slate roof builder Joseph Jenkins has brought back into print the classic “Slate Roofs,” first published in January, 1926, by the then nascent “National Slate Association.” Other than a slight adjustment to the title, to be more compatible with a 21st-century readership, and…
