Recently, those of us living in the Western World have been forced to look at life a little differently. Turns out those hippies were right - building a society based on buying stuff then chucking it out hasn't left us in a great place. The planet's prognosis is not rosy: a few ended up with all the money, and then went on to lose it, and most of our favourite foods have turned out to be toxic. Nana told us this would happen - "Waste not, want not" she said, knowingly. She also gave us strange homemade things in jars, she made our gifts, and grew her own veges. We didn't pay much attention to that either. But now, we're starting to wonder just what was in those jars? We're looking sideways at the apple tree in the park, thinking maybe I don't need supermarket baby food after all. We're wishing we didn't have to pay a plumber to fix the dripping tap, or a man with a hairy bum-crack to put in a set of bookshelves. Surely I could do that myself, we cry, if only I knew how!! Tips from Your Nana is a book that will give you back your power. It will show you how to do pretty much everything, from preserving to picket fencing. It will help you save the environment, it will help you save society, and better yet - let's face it, we're children of our time - it will help you save money. Hidden in pockets of our world are people who still know how to do 'stuff'. Some of them remember the Great Depression, or a few of the not-so-great ones since. Some of them were real live tree-huggers. Some are bright young Gen-Y types who realised self-sufficiency was cool again before the rest of us did. Some of them grew up in countries where 'supermarkets' and 'supplies' are foreign concepts. A whole lot of them have been brought together in this book to show you how to do a huge range of basic things in an easy, low-cost, fun way. From growing organic veges to turning them into sauces and inviting people to share the result over a dining table you just whipped up - YOU can do it!.