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PERMACULTURE BOOK OF DIY by John Adams
by: John Adams
Only £12.95
Permaculture is a low cost, environmental and creative approach to living. The Permaculture Book of DIY presents over 20 practical projects that show you how to cleverly recycle materials into useful and unique objects at low financial and environmental cost. Some projects can even be completed for free.
Want to spend more time enjoying your home and garden? With this diverse range of projects you could could be growing vegetables in your own geodesic growdome, relaxing on a recycled wooden pallet garden bench whilst enjoying a cider from your very own cider press, or generating your own power with a self-installed solar panel! Each project has been carefully tried and tested and is clearly laid out with step by step instructions and supporting photography and diagrams. It is suitable for anyone who wants to learn DIY skills, have fun and involve their kids too. Learn how to make your own: Solar food dryer; Self-watering raised bed; Pallet furniture; Wood-fired pizza oven; Rocket stove hot tub; and much more!
176pp, Paperback, 168 x 240 mm, 2016
SKU:270135
ISBN:9781856232715
PILGRIMAGE WITH THE LEPRECHAUNS by Tanis Helliwell
£7.51 £17.00
Having met the leprechauns in a cottage on the west coast of Ireland, in this sequel Tanis leads a tour of the country’s sacred sites, which unsurprisingly (with leprechauns present!) subsides into chaos. At least, that is, according to outward appearances: on another level the students on the pilgrimage actually learn valuable lessons about life, because of the spirit of the “Craic” which prevails in Ireland. The “Craic” is known to most of us as the impulse and energy of having a good time, but the leprechauns teach us about it as a spiritual principle also. These elementals, who are all around us, just have a different way of doing things!
192pp, 218 x 142 mm, Paperback, 2010
SUMMER WITH THE LEPRECHAUNS by Tanis Helliwell
£14.99
It’s a return to Cygnus of this much-loved classic where popular Canadian teacher Tanis Helliwell tells of the time in 1985 that she spent sharing her home with a family of leprechauns. The stories and anecdotes she relates are fun and recreate the magical atmosphere of rural Ireland. Through them we learn a great deal about all elemental life, not just leprechauns, but including the more familiar fairies and elves – what we can do for them and they for us. You may be sceptical about their existence but life is undoubtedly enhanced when we allow these amazing presences into our lives!
192pp, 216 x 142 mm, Paperback, 1997
FERTILE EDGES by Maddy Harland
£9.95
Published in celebration of 25 years of Permaculture magazine, this collection of writings offers several snapshots from the frontline of the battle to maintain and beautify this planet, this home of ours. Maddy is a long-term friend of Cygnus and, like so many of the books listed here, hers offers encouragement and practical advice on how we truly can lead our lives in a way that’s better for ourselves and for all life. Her writing is outstanding and shows a profound connection to the land – as she herself says, to the “fertile edges” where things are wilder and a bit more interesting.
192pp, 210 x 150 mm, Paperback, 2017
ZEN IN THE ART OF PERMACULTURE DESIGN by Stefan Geyer
£6.99 £7.99
Cygnus will always be supportive of Permaculture because it brings a deep approach to nature and to growth. It leaves a space for non-dogmatic spirituality – this book uses the inspiration of Zen to advise us when we approach any particular creative task. This one happens to be permaculture design. There is a great value in sitting still and doing nothing. And then when we have finished that we can create something beautiful, inspired by the quotations and stunning geometrical illustrations in this elegant yet practical book.
124pp, 127 x 198 mm, Paperback, 2016SECRET MEDICINES FROM YOUR GARDEN by Ellen Evert Hopman
£9.74 £14.99
This book is like the Tardis because you can’t believe what’s in it! As the subtitle suggests, it contains everything you need to know about plants and their capabilities for healing, spirituality and magic. The author covers, to name just a few topics, working with plant spirits, animal spirit medicine, bee medicines and herbal astrology. What’s great about this book is that it can take you in all sorts of directions, into herbalism, magic or shamanism, or it will just lead you to get to know your garden better. The author’s American but the plants she discusses come from everywhere and, as a Druid, her tradition originates here in Europe.
338pp, 152 x 229 mm, Paperback, 2016