Walnut Books, Ireland's sustainable booksellers offers titles on Permaculture, Organic food and Gardening, Transition Towns, Sustainable Design, Energy and Living.

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As always we will be adding lots of new titles to our range in 2010 and there are a few we are really looking forward to getting our hands on, including more titles in the Transition Series from Green Books and a forthcoming book on Forest Gardening from Martin Crawford of the Agroforestry Research Trust which looks set to become a new classic on the subject. You can check out what other people thought of our books by looking in our 'reviews' section on the right and you can add your thoughts on any title there, or subscribe to our occasional newsletter by entering your email address in the 'subscribe' box.

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Featured Title: Local Food- How To Make it Happen in Your Community
Over the past year we have noticed a real upsurge of interest among our customers in books on growing food, whether it be on a newly acquired allotment or in containers on the patio. Where before the majority of enquiries to Walnut Towers were about sustainable building we are now finding a real shift in interest towards food, and calls to the office are far more likely to be about how to keep chickens and grow spuds than whether strawbale can really work in the soggy Irish climate (it can!). Councils all over the country are feeling the push from people to assign land for allotments and folks are setting up their own networks (see the excellent Cork Food Web:http://corkfoodweb.ning.com/)

So it seems appropriate to offer the fantastic new book, Local Food- how to make it happen in your community, as our flavour of the month. This is the latest addition to the Transition Series, and in it Rob Hopkins and Tamzin Pinkerton explore the options from Community Supported Agriculture, to food co-ops to veg box schemes. They outline the pros and cons of each set up and offer some realistic and practical advice on how to get a scheme like this up and running in your area. After Copenhagen the need to start making good things happen for ourselves has never seemed more urgent and we are now offering Local Food at the reduced price of €13.50 to help you along!

Keep in touch with developments in the Transition Initiatives by visiting Rob's website at http://transitionculture.org/.

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