Tiffany Francis-Baker Livres

This brand-new title in our ever popular series of Concise Guides will bring the delights of foraging to a new audience.A practical pocket guide to the edible berries, shoots, leaves, roots, flowers and fungi of Britain and Europe.This field guide includes accurate artwork to help with identification, as well as information on where to find different species, their descriptions and habitats, and ideas on how to prepare and eat them.

The essential primer on the role of honeybees in British history, covering biology, folklore, the history of beekeeping and the danger to bees posed by climate change.

Taking inspiration from the landscapes around her, Tiffany Francis-Baker explores how our relationship with darkness and the night has changed over time.

This illustrated guide offers insights on embracing the changing seasons while promoting peace, mindfulness, and joy throughout the year. It encourages readers to connect with nature and find inspiration in each season's unique beauty and offerings, fostering a deeper appreciation for the passage of time.

WINNER OF THE ELWYN HARTLEY-EDWARDS AWARD FOR EQUINE WRITING, 2023. Tiffany Francis-Baker explores how the relationship between humans and horses has shaped the British landscape and how this connection has become part of our nation's ecosystems. Many of us enjoy walking or riding on bridleways. These ancient networks crisscross the British countryside, but we rarely pause to ponder how they came to be. Tiffany Francis-Baker tells the intriguing history of Britain's bridleways, revealing how our relationship with horses is deeply woven into the fabric of British culture, from street and pub names to trading routes and coaching inns. She meets the closest living descendants of wild horses and investigates our evolving relationship with horses, exploring equestrian sports, horse fairs, horseback travellers and adventurers, and how humans and horses have worked together for millennia. Part-domesticated and part-fiercely independent, horses have long captured our imaginations, and in The Bridleway, Francis-Baker reveals how deeply rooted they have been in our culture for thousands of years and how they can help us understand the natural world and our place within it.

The Cottage Life outlines the essential themes of the cottagecore aesthetic, showing how we can draw on them to live a fuller, more purposeful life.

Cultivating traditional skills and simple approaches to achieving a sustainable—and beautiful—life. This is the essential guide to living a more beautiful, purposeful, and fulfilling life inspired by the whimsical world of cottagecore, complete with flower pressing, foraging, needlework, spinning, crafting, and other fun and charming yet practical activities. From savoring the aroma of freshly baked bread and tending a beloved herb patch to enjoying sunlight filtering through hand-sewn curtains, cottagecore is a philosophy as well as an aesthetic that brings together many strands of a sustainable lifestyle: unplugging, slow living, embracing nature, learning new skills, growing food, and much more. Each chapter explores different ways of embracing the cottagecore lifestyle, such as interacting with nature, eating seasonally, and getting creative. Inherently low-impact and green, cottagecore embraces reuse and recycling and celebrates an old-fashioned no-waste ethic. Other cottagecore books focus on the Instagrammable, but this book emphasizes the appeal of this lifestyle and a realistic approach to embracing it wholeheartedly.