A Slice of Organic Life

by Sheherazade Goldsmith

Book Overview

Featuring over 80 self-contained projects, from growing your own food organically, cooking home-grown produce, keeping selected livestock, and leading a more sustainable lifestyle, this down-to-earth,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0756628733
• ISBN13: 9780756628734
• Release Date: June 2007
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.0" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Serves up just that - "A Slice" of organic life,

This is a beautiful book. It has full color photos and it's printed on thick and flexible paper stock. It has 352 pages full of wonderful ways to get on the way to organic living. What I adore about this book is it has a ton of very simple ways to change even the most practical things you do everyday to make them organic. Most of the ideas would work no matter if you live in a small apartment or on a homestead. Basically, "A Slice of the Organic Life" attempts to set you on a path to a more organic lifestyle, by doing the things you can do now in most any living situation or lifestyle. It's not an exhaustive guide, it does just what the title implies- a slice of the organic life (not the whole pie!). The book is broken into three sections of organic ideas as follows: 1. No Need for a Yard, 2. Roof, Terrace, Patio or Tiny Yard, 3. Yard, Community garden, or Field. Just a few examples of chapters included are: Clean without harsh chemicals, Save energy the easy way, Keep Urban Honey Bees, Make Simple Preserves & Chutneys, Preserve fruit, Harvest & store orchard fruits, Keep chickens & Keep Pigs. If you're just starting to get really interested in practical organic living, this book will be an enormous help. If you are already living a strictly organic lifestyle, the organic concepts here probably won't be anything new to you. Love it!

I Love this book!

I picked this up at a local book store and read through it. I thought it was excellent and one that I came here looking to buy. I never pay full price if I don't have too... I have chickens, and pigs and unlike the professional reviewer I found these topics of interest not everyone lives in a city. I also liked the recipes! I would highly recommend!

An excellent manual for making lifestyle changes easy.

Any consumer who would lead a more organically-based life will want to consider the multi-faceted approach in A Slice of Organic Life, whether it be the home cook seeking to adjust food and cooking habits to the small gardener who wants to incorporate organic methods. Libraries where readers enjoy organic cookbooks, gardening titles or home ownership patrons will find A SLICE OF ORGANIC LIFE a popular lend: it packs its pages with color photos along with specific suggestions for buying, growing, eating, and choosing organics and it is an excellent manual for making lifestyle changes easy. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch

A great guide for anyone wanting to do more

First, if you're looking for a comprehensive guide to green living, skip this one. It isn't a comprehensive guide, and it doesn't bill itself as such. It does what it claims to do -- gives you "slices" of organic life. It's great for families like mine who can't do everything but want to do SOMETHING. I think that it is very well-organized for it's mission -- to give people ways to incorporate organic and sustainable living into their daily lives. It is organized by lifestyle -- for those with apartments, small yards, or lots of open space. The ideas range from truly simple solutions (baking your own bread, choosing earth-friendly cleaning products) to the more adventurous (keeping honeybees and chickens). I really love this book. It's an attractively put together and well-organized learning experience.

Great overall book

This book was an easy read which covered lightly on each section of organic living. Unlike most people I was only trying to find an easy to read organic book. I liked the book because unlike most books it covered a large area of organic living. I found that this book is great for an intro to organic living where you could follow this book up with others specifically pertaining to your areas of intrest. This book gave me a quick intro into farm living and what it takes to live an organic life. This book by no means answered all of my questions it only helped me narrow down my specific intrests, giving me general information on organics and what it takes to do them, allowing me to find other specific books pertaining to my new intrests. Another plus to this 337 page book was that each page had a picture describing what specifically the author was talking about. Overall good book!