Even those who live in the crush and clamor of cities can find a huge variety of edible, medicinal, and otherwise useful herbs among the plants commonly called "weeds" by the uninformed.
Michelle shares their new hobby of observing and identifying mushrooms and how it has changed their relationship with nature. They discuss mushrooms' calming effect, variety, and medicinal properties.
A feminist minicomic about a woman attempting to cope with her anxieties using various strategies (eating a pear in the sun, growing a basil plant). She discovers the source of her anxiety is being a woman. After being magically transformed into a man and peeing on the world, her anxieties disappear.
A traditional 'zine' from a resifdent of the Wildroots Homestead in North Carolinak, illustrated with drawings of bird species and edible plants. It serves both as a memoir and a manual (how to build a debris shelter, how to correctly gut a deer).
Practical manual with instructions for using mushrooms in cooking, as dyestuff, in homemade medicines, and to make paper. Also includes wild mushroom identification information, a list of recommended mushroom reading, a glossary of mushroom terminology, and many detailed photographs, drawings, and diagrams.
Thrifty and clever D.I.Y. solutions to cleaning and organizing a home. Issue one contains a table on how to paint exterior surfaces, information on how to fold a fitted sheet, cleaning recipes, and a recipe for vegan mug cakes.
For The Love of Bees is a handmade mini artist book by Caroline Paquita. It is a celebration of honeybees and an homage to colonies lost over the years due to ongoing environmental changes.
A Lump Nubbin is a small, lumpy, painted sculpture made from paper pulp. Sometimes it looks like it is sprouting, leaning, bending, or even laughing. Lump Nubbins are often very colorful, and they have their own names. Here in this book, you can color your own Lump Nubbins however you can imagine.
"Leftovers is a photozine documenting the abandoned Christmas trees of London. The photos were taken from the beginning of January 2015, right up to the end of March. Ironically it seems the trees have a far longer lifespan on the streets than they do in our homes, and even since this book was printed i've seen a few trees, lurking, still awaiting their fate. All photos were shot on iPhone, primarily around the boroughs of Islington and Hackney." -- Artist's website (theleftovers.co)
