Spring Hill imprint: 24 books
The Seasonal Cookbook
How to Turn Fresh, Seasonal Produce and Vegetables into Delicious Home-cooked Meals
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
If you grow your own vegetables, or are able to shop at a farmer's market or farm shop, or you are lucky enough to have an old fashioned greengrocer and good local butcher, then this book will help you enjoy food at the peak of its flavour. The textures and tastes gained from cooking fresh ingredients...
Good Home Preserving
Delicious Jams, Jellies, Chutneys, Pickles, Curds, Cheeses, Relishes and Ketchups - and How to Make Them at Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
This book will show you how to preserve our wonderful spring, summer and autumn harvests, so that you can enjoy nature's bounty even in the sparser months. From drying, bottling and freezing to simple jams, jellies, curds, cheeses, relishes, syrups and chutneys, all you will ever need to know is explained...
Chickens, Ducks and Bees
A beginner's guide to keeping livestock in the garden
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Growing your own vegetables often leads gardeners to want to go one step further and keep some livestock. Chickens, ducks and bees are the most likely candidates for the first time livestock owner - especially if you live in a town or have only a small amount of land. They can all be kept happily...
Organic Vegetable Growing
The Complete Guide to Growing Nutritious and Tasty Vegetables the Organic Way
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Growing your own organic vegetables will give you fresher, tastier and more nutritious produce with no food miles, fossil fuel use or packaging; and will provide you with the simple but enormous pleasure and satisfaction of supplying at least part of your own food requirements. This authoritative...
Gifts From Your Kitchen
How to Make and Gift Wrap Your Own Presents
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
How much nicer is it to receive something that has been made with love - and specially for you? In this book you'll learn how to create gorgeous gifts from your own kitchen - from fudge to face masks, biscuits to body scrub, and everything in between. Presentation is key, so the author takes you step-bystep...
Patio Produce
How to cultivate a lot of home-grown vegetables from the smallest possible space
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2009
How to cultivate a lot of home-grown vegetables from the smallest possible space. When space is at a premium, growing decent food to eat might seem an impossible task. Patio Produce is about just that; growing delicious, wholesome fruit and vegetables in the smallest spaces. It shows you how to make...
by Sarah Flower
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Tired of fad diets and yo-yo dieting? Do you want to lose weight and improve your health but still enjoy your food? Nutritionist Sarah Flower believes that by following the recipes in her book you can eat well, lose weight, feel better AND stay that way. Sarah's focus is on healthy eating and delicious...
Planting Plans For Your Kitchen Garden
How to Create a Vegetable, Herb and Fruit Garden in Easy Stages
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Planting Plans for Your Kitchen Garden gives you all you need to turn your back garden into a productive paradise with modular planting plans for simple beds of vegetables, herbs, fruit and cut flowers. You can also mix and match the beds to create your own kitchen garden or allotment.
The Urban Hen
A practical guide to keeping poultry in a town or city
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
"The Urban Hen" is the perfect companion for the city poultry keeper and shows you how to maintain a happy, healthy garden or backyard flock in towns and cities. Paul Peacock shows you how to: find the best poultry for the small garden and house them properly, feed your birds, tune in to...
Grow It, Cook It!
The Beginner's Guide to Producing Your Own Food
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Many crops, including herbs, can be produced in a relatively small space with a little pre-planning and organizing: in containers, on a balcony, and indoors. Herbs are perfect for enhancing the flavour of cooking, treating minor ailments, and preventing colds and flu. Your own back garden will not...
by Paul Peacock, Diana Peacock
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Grandma's Ways represents a large repository of knowledge that we have mostly forgotten. With a little modification for these busy modern times. Techniques for preserving food, keeping hens and bees, growing vegetables and fruit, making your own cosmetics and a host of other things will bring us not...
The Kitchen Herb Garden
A seasonal guide to growing, cooking and using culinary herbs
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
This book is full of inspiration and practical advice on cultivating a kitchen herb garden,and on using its fresh,home-grown herbs in your cooking. There is detailed information on how to plan,plant,grow and maintain thirty selected herbs in a herb garden that will always be productive.Additionally,there...
The Beekeeper's Field Guide
A Pocket Guide to the Health and Care of Bees
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
This guide is a diagnostic tool and an aide memoire for the hobbyist and for the professional beekeeper, who may know what to do but will at times need the information close to hand. It includes: - A troubleshooting guide to problems with colonies and queen bees - A guide to the field diagnosis, treatment...
A Practical Manual Of Beekeeping
How to keep bees and develop your full potential as an apiarist
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
A fascinating hobby; a remunerative business; or a globetrotting career? Which type of beekeeper do you want to be? It is entirely up to you: beekeeping can provide it all.Beekeeping can provide anyone with an interesting and useful hobby or a lucrative and rewarding business. It is recognised as...
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