Lemons and Lavender: The Eco Guide to Better Homekeeping - Softcover

Sharp, Billee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936740109 ISBN 13: 9781936740109

Publisher: Viva Editions, 2012

Synopsis

Author Billee Sharp shares her freecycling, budget-savvy, barter-better wisdom in this step-by-step handbook for revolutionizing spending habits and reclaiming quality of life. Lemons and Lavender is an inspiring and instructive guide to living the handmade life by consuming less and creating more. Practical and profound, this handy how-to covers every area of life and offers easy-to-do tips, recipes, and advice for saving money and the planet. Learn how to ditch your lawn and raise organic vegetables, cook healthy meals for pennies, cure minor maladies from the kitchen cabinet, save big dollars with small repairs, and eco-clean your house with lemons and lavender. With this guide, families can live more joyfully and far more creatively, all on a dime.

About this title

About the Author

Billee Sharp was born and raised in a little village in Dorset, England, where she spent a lot of time at the garden gate waving to passersby. She studied anthropology and ancient history at University College London. Billee went on to style herself a career as a contemporary art curator and gallerist. Working with Damien Hirst and others, she opened Building One, a huge gallery in an old biscuit factory, and mounted a series of group shows which contributed to the emergence of the YBAs. Quickly disenchanted with the art world, she turned her interest to the underground house music scene flourishing in London. Not long afterward, Billee moved to California. In 1993, she took up residence in San Francisco and started both a family and record label with Scotsman Jonah Sharp, a pioneering electronic musician. The birthplace of counterculture has been a wellspring of inspiration for her life and her creative writing.

From the Back Cover

Hundreds of Ideas for Healthy, Happy and Fabulously Frugal Homekeeping
Bursting with ways to downshift, simplify, preserve resources, and honor the planet, "Lemons and Lavender" will give you tools to reclaim a purer, tastier, healthier and less expensive way of life. Sharp shares her radical common sense and revolutionary "freeconomics" approach to budgeting in this step-by-step guide to the good life.
Creative ideas inside "Lemons and Lavender"
- Garden-to-table recipes for every meal
- Eco-deco ideas for furnishing your home
- Recipes for nontoxic cleaners, house paint and more
- Start a seed sharing garden with your neighbors
- Easy-to-make gifts with handcrafted gift wrap
- Grow your own cup of delicious herbal tea
- Learn to use organic sea salts, skin scrubs and detox bath therapies

Edition details

• Publisher: Viva Editions
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1936740109
• ISBN 13: 9781936740109
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 275