Wise Words & Country Ways for House & Home contains generations of advice on simple ways to run an environmentally-friendly home, based around well known, & not so well known, sayings. Everyone is keen to reduce their carbon footprint, conserve resources, eat & live more healthily. Ruth Binney's fascinating collection of traditional wisdom shares how our forbears lived well within the resources available. With advice on using everyday items as alternatives to expensive chemical products & tips on eco-friendly gardening & cooking, discover how to recapture that bygone age when life was simpler, less wasteful, less expensive, less toxic & more fulfilling. Illustrated with delightful line drawings throughout, Wise Words & Country Ways for House & Home shows us a better, more green way to live in the modern world.