ISBN 9781864470468

full-colour PB, 160 pp
Provides detailed descriptions of both heritage and modern apple cultivars; gives advice on pests and diseases; tips on suitability for climate and soil; and notes on growing, pruning and grafting.

Penny Woodward

ISBN 9781864470741

full-colour PB, 152 pp
Describes origin, habit, cultivation and uses of 100 Asian herbs and vegetables. Has full-colour photographs for easy identification, general index and Asian names index.

Nick Romanowski
ISBN 9781864471168
Flexi-cover, full-colour, 192 pp

Many Australian grasses are as spectacularly beautiful as the finest in the rest of the world. They are, of course, much better adapted to our varied Australian climates. This book describes around 200 species of grasses, sedges, rushes, grass trees and related plants, tells you how to propagate and grow them, and is illustrated with photos taken in rainforests, wetlands, mallee scrub and gardens from around the country.

ISBN 978 0947214586

PB, 196 pp
Completely revised and updated second edition. Perennial, popular classic, now in its 9th printing with more than 30,000 copies sold.
Self-sufficient gardens are beautiful: a ramble of productivity, a profusion of smells and colour … Jackie will help you to create a ‘Garden of Eden’ in your own backyard!

Allen Gilbert
ISBN 9781864471151
Flexi-cover, full-colour, 224 pp
With the increasing interest in ‘super’ berries and their health benefits it’s good to know they can be grown organically, and that most are suited to small gardens and pots. They’re chock-full of: vitamins A, C and E, folic and amino acids, anti-oxidants, riboflavin, dietary fibre and flavonoids

ISBN: 9781864470833

Hyland House Publishing, PB, 128pages

pest control and harvesting

Allen Gilbert

ISBN 9781864471038

full colour PB, 176 pp
Follows in the footsteps of Allen’s other popular texts on Apples, Nuts, and Tomatoes. According to Peter Cundall’s Foreword, … ‘This is about Australia’s national obsession – citrus trees, and how to grow them successfully. … It’s a bloomin’ inspiration!’

Penny Woodward and Pam Vardy

ISBN 978 1864470963

Full-colour PB, 176 pp

Revel in the richness and diversity of these inner-city community gardens. Includes:
* many fascinating and unusual edible plants
* simple, home-style recipes using the vegetables and herbs gathered from these gardens
* tips for successful gardening, like pine needles for strawberries and chicken manure to warm the soil

Winner, 2007 Horticultural Media Association Australia's Book Laurel award for an outstanding original book by an Australian or New Zealand writer:
A finalist together with Paul Bangay’s The Enchanted Garden and Richard Aitkins’ Botanical Riches, the judges wrote of the winner, Community Gardens, ‘... possibly the first book on any gardening topic that virtually had the judges in tears! [It is] ... an inspiration to all and takes gardening back to its most important basics.’

ISBN 9781875657612

PB, 128 pp, $24.95
With a dryer you can preserve all kinds of foods, including meat, fish, poultry and many vegetables, fruit and herbs. Drying is a much easier and safer method of preserving than home bottling and canning (and avoids the preservatives and additives of commercial products), and the taste is incomparable. Includes more than 150 recipes from all over the world, for delicious main courses and side dishes using dried food.
Also gives recipes for making lotions, soap and dried flowers.

David Murphy

ISBN 9781875657094

PB, 112 pp
Reprinted 6 times, and with more than 30,000 copies in print, this is Australia’s most popular guide to worm farming by far.
Convert your household compost heap into a constant supply of nutrient-rich vermicast for your garden, and minimise the need for manufactured fertilisers and deep ploughing. Drawing on information from the world’s leading agricultural research centers (including the CSIRO), Earthworms in Australia is a comprehensive and easily understood guide.

ISBN 978 1864471090

Sewn flexi-cover, 160 pp

... His unique but simple methods of training plants as espaliers are both original and brilliant ... – Peter Cundall

Create beautiful, productive garden walls and fences, and optimise space in small gardens, patios and balconies with Allen’s innovative espalier techniques. Covers:
* forms, trellis systems and designs * flowering plants and fruit trees * shaping and pruning * Australian native plants

By Marilyn Bull with line drawings by George Stolfo

The iconic guide, updated and greatly expanded 4th edition. 624 pages.

Full colour, beautiful line drawings.

By Penny Woodward
Full-colour, sewn flexicover, ISBN 978 1864471199 224 pages

Choose the right garlic to suit your culinary styles, raw, stirfry, saute, slow food or roasting, choose your perfect flavour characteristics and strength and enjoy your favourite cultural flavours to create those perfect authentic recipes all year round.

Format: A fully laminated, foldable garlic guide, 1008mm x 440mm fully opened (double-sided) and folds to 220mm x 126mm for easy storage and handling.

Allen Gilbert

ISBN: 9781864471236

Hyland House Publishing, Flexi-cover, full colour, 145 pages

ISBN 9781864470895

PB, full-colour, 144 pp

This book is now out-of-print. Look on second hand book sites to find a copy.
Worried about the contents of off-the-shelf pills and potions? This book puts you back in control:
• Deal effectively with unsettling, uncomfortable, or debilitating ailments.
• Save yourself and your family many a trip to doctor, pharmacist or natural therapist.
• Grow the herbs you love, then make your own infusions, teas, salves, ointments, and rubs.

ISBN 9781864471083

Sewn flexi-cover, 152 pp
Herbs are so easy to grow and use, they should be everywhere in our gardens and backyards, balconies and patios. They can be grown in pots or as hedges, in odd corners and along paths, on fences and in the veggie garden – or, indeed, in a herb garden of their own. The perfect gift.

ISBN: 9781864471205 Hyland House Publishing, HB, 213 pages

A barren block of land in the Australian suburbs has, over a period of 30 years, been transformed by the Sicilianos' passion, daring, perseverance and hard work into a slice of the Calabrian countryside - a lush and wonderful oasis. At a mere 1.2 ha, Rose Creek Estate is probably the smallest vineyard in the nation and, at less the 17 kilometres from the city centre, certainly the most urban. Its 3200 vines and its orchard, vegetable garden and nearly 400 olive trees produce thousands of bottles of award winning wine and olive oil, hundreds of jars of passata and preserved olives, and lots of other produce, year after year. Cherished family and regional traditions remain a large part of this couple's lives.  Month by month, this book details the changing seasons and the activities that take place in the vineyard and olive grove, in the cellar (where wine and olive oil are produced), and in the kitchen. The Sicilianos' enterprise is the embodiment of these ideas and living proof that such pursuits can build both a profitable business and a healthy and intensely satisfying way of life.

Penny Woodward

ISBN 9781864470987

HB, 256 pp

This book is now out-of-print. Look on second hand book sites to find a copy. This best-selling herb ‘bible’ (in its 5th printing of 3 editions) contains a fully illustrated A-Z of herbs, chapters on propagation, organic gardening, cultivation and planning, insect repellent herbs, companion planting, medicinal uses, and much, much more.

Completely Revised and Updated 4th Edition of the Author’s Australian Herbal.

Winner of the Horticultural Media Association Australia's 2009 Book Laurel: 'Best Technical Book' This award is for a book displaying a high degree of factual,
detailed information on a specific or range of topics.

ISBN 9780947214647
PB, full-colour, 160 pp

Like bread, wine or beer, making your own yoghurt, butter and cheese is fun. It’s an age-old tradition – neither difficult nor complicated, and very rewarding. No room for a goat, cow or sheep? No matter. Just buy a few litres of milk and get straight into the process of making your own cream, butter, cheese and yoghurt.

ISBN 978 0947214593

full-colour PB, 192 pp

This completely revised edition’s sections on poultry keeping and management have been greatly expanded, and are now illustrated with close to 100 full-colour photographs. It’s Bigger & Better and always in demand. More than 35,000 copies sold.

Jackie French, Manna Press, PB, 192pp  ISBN 978 0947214654

ISBN 9781864470918

full-colour PB, 144 pp
• Comprehensive guide to tree nuts, their propagation and cultivation, pests and diseases, pruning and harvesting
• Other popular nuts
• Allen’s pruning, budding and grafting methods.

ISBN 9781864471175
Hyland House, 2011, Sewn PB, full-colour, 144 pp

Pigs are intelligent, challenging and fascinating creatures. They also taste great. Written by long-time vegetarian turned pig-farmer Jen Owens, this book will guide you in feeding and housing your pigs in a caring and cost-effective way, in an environment that supports your pigs’ natural instincts. With a Foreword by ‘Gourmet Farmer’ Matthew Evans

Phoebe Thorndyke

ISBN: 9781864470420

Hyland House Publishing, PB, 107 pages

Phoebe's ducks provide rich manure for her organic garden, they control weeds, give companionship and therapy, provide delicious eggs and turn gardening chores into a delightful pastime - all in a small, inner-city garden. Learn how to choose, buy, house, care for and keep ducks.

ISBN 9780947214517

PB, 156 pp

Jackie shows that weeds can be controlled using home-grown, natural herbicides in addition to mulching, solarisation or applications of urine, steam or boiling water – and many other cheap, safe and environmentally gentle techniques.

Penny Woodward

ISBN 9781864471182

PB, full-colour, 160 pp

Every gardener knows the havoc insects and other pests can cause in the garden and home. Shop-bought products can control pests but are expensive, wasteful and often highly toxic. By using sprays, oils and powders derived from pest-repellent plants, you can keep garden and household pests at bay. Every plant is shown in full colour, with notes on cultivation and use.
Apart from an A-Z of Pest-repellent Plants, this new edition also includes many other organic solutions, from traps and barriers to sprays, oils, dusting powders and washes made from common household items like milk, coffee and bicarbonate of soda.

ISBN 9781864470307

PB, 82 pages

Tantalising smoked prawns, mouth-watering schnapper fillets, amber-coloured smoked cheeses, smoked garlic.......Smoked food can be expensive to buy, but with Smoking Food you can do it yourself, cheaply!

Jackie French

ISBN 9780947214449

PB, 184 pp, $18.95
In this ground-breaking book, French, writing in her appealing and earthy style, provides hundreds of suggestions and strategies for maintaining, improving and restoring health to the soil.

ISBN 978 0947214609

full-colour PB, 144 pp, $21.95
• Beekeeping Basics
• Harvesting Honey
• Beeswax, Candles and other Bee Business

Step into the world of our least admired botanical companions, peel back the layers of prejudice and discover the finer side of the plants we call weeds. Find out how to distinguish a tasty sandwich filler from its dangerous look alike, how nutritious they are, and how to cook with them. Now you can find a nutritious lunch and not spend a cent. Excellent photographs and illustrations, easy to use recipes, fascinating history.

By Adam Grubb & Annie Raser-Rowland

Flexi-cover, sewn, full-colour, 166p

ISBN 9780646982748 Hardcover. 376 pages. Full colour throughout. $60

Sue Ruchel

ISBN 9780947214487

PB, 144 pp, $24.95
If you want to make medlar jelly or quandong jam, chokko chutney or tamarillo sauce, Sue Ruchel shows you how – as well as revealing her methods for drying and crystallising and … many other country kitchen secrets!
BACK by popular demand – reprinted July 2007