Maureen Little: 21 books

Anyone can grow a herb garden.  Herbs are decorative, attract useful insects, are relatively easy to grow, and above all are delicious when used in cooking or flavouring.   This book tells you how to grow – and store - your own culinary herbs, from seed or from cuttings....

This short-e guide will inspire you to make your own bread. Making your own bread means you can have wholesome, natural, additive-free, even organic bread when you want. You’ll also be saving money as home-made bread is a fraction of the cost of shop-bought. Maureen Little has been making her...

For many people gardening is predominantly about plants and choosing the right combination and balance to make beautiful borders. This book will help you achieve this - and more, because it will also help you create an ecologically sound, bee-friendly garden, showing that you can have an aesthetically...

Herbs that come straight to your kitchen table from your own garden bring unbeatable flavour and freshness to your cooking. This book is a seasonal guide to growing, cooking and using 30 of the most useful and popular culinary herbs, both delicate and robust. It includes 60 delicious recipes - each...

Bees play a vital and irreplaceable role in pollinating our flowers, fruits and vegetables. The more bees in your garden the healthier, more productive and more pleasant a place it will be. Yet bees are declining rapidly and many people, even if they do not wish to keep bees themselves, are asking...

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...

This book will give you the knowledge and confidence to use your own herbs to make inexpensive wellbeing and domestic products from your own garden, without the need for costly commercial preparations, and with an eye to the more natural cultivation of useful herbs, in harmony with nature and in tune...

Nothing says 'English summer' as much as a pint of cider. Sweet or dry, from the keg or bottle, but cold with that tantalising condensation as the warm summer air hits the chill of the glass. This short-e guide gives you a brief introduction to how to create your own refreshing cider. Aswell as looking at drinks of a similar nature such as mead, perry and braggot.

If you are considering growing soft fruit for yourself, then this short-e guide will serve as a great introduction for you.  Topics covered include: -Where to grow your fruit -Deciding which fruit to grow -Dealing with the fruit you harvest  

The benefits of vegetable gardening include knowing where your vegetables from, being in control of what - if any - chemicals come into contact with them, and unbeatable flavour!  You will never want to eat a supermarket carrot again. There is also something very special about planting seeds...

Herbs have been used in cooking for hundreds of years. They can, and should, be an integral part of your life in the kitchen, adding extra layers of delicious flavour and interest to your cooking. This short-e guide looks at the most popular and easily obtainable culinary herbs, plus a few that are...

HOW TO BAKE CAKES A beginner’s guide Home baking is undergoing something of a revival. This is partly due to fact that more and more people want to know exactly what they are eating, and if you make your own cakes, you do! Also, even in hard economic times, we want to treat ourselves now and...

Being aware of what goes into everyday items such as clothing and furnishing is a big part of caring for the environment. Nowadays there is a renewed interest in natural dyestuffs, and this Short-e guide will give you an introduction to this craft. It covers the following topics: ...