Boswell's Books Mission Statement:

• To carry on as a unique and exceptional community-oriented independent bookstore.
• To support local artisans and utilize area services in order to foster a vibrant, resilient, and diverse local business community.
• To provide a venue for cultural events, book groups, workshops, and general conviviality.
• To emphasize and educate about sustainability and permaculture both in terms of book selection and business practices.
• To embody the spirit of sustainable enterprise and reinvest profits into restorative economics and land base regeneration.

Featured Sustainability and Permaculture Titles

 

	Gaia's Garden, Second Edition: A Guide To Home-Scale Permaculture - This revised and updated edition also features a new chapter on urban permaculture, designed especially for people in cities and suburbs who have very limited growing space. Whatever size yard or garden you have to work with, you can apply basic permaculture principles to make it more diverse, more natural, more productive, and more beautiful.
	The Curious Garden: One boy's quest for a greener world... one garden at a time. - This is an enchanting tale with environmental themes and breathtaking illustrations that become more vibrant as the garden blooms. Red-headed Liam can also be spotted on every page, adding a clever seek-and-find element to this captivating picture book.
	The Backyard Homestead: In the information-rich tradition of Storey's Basic Country Skills, here is a reliable compendium of advice on how to feed our families using plants and animals raised at home. From growing fruits and vegetables to churning butter and raising chickens, The Backyard Homestead has all the how-to that enterprising homeowners need to make a wide array of food items.
	Surviving and Thriving on the Land - The first book to look at how to avoid burn-out, manage your time and earn a viable living from the land. This books looks at ways in which projects can be designed that care for the people involved in them, as well as the earth that they are trying to protect.
	The Transition Timeline lightens the fear of our uncertain future, providing a map of what we are facing and the different pathways available to us, covering key areas such as food, energy, demographics, transport and healthcare.
	The Winter Harvest Handbook - Gardeners and farmers can use the innovative, highly successful methods Eliot Coleman describes in this comprehensive handbook to raise crops throughout the coldest of winters.

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