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Grow your own

Whatever the scale of your ambitions or plot you'll find something useful here.

Make your own

Reduce your footprint by making your own, from knitting to soap-making to adorning your home.

Livestock and pets

Find out about rearing livestock from the farm to the garden, and doing the best for your pets.

Energy efficiency and construction

Discover how to adapt, change and even build your own home to enable you to tread more lightly upon the planet.

Cooking, preserving and home brewing

From the home brewery to ambitions of chefly grandeur. Find out how to do it all here and really taste the difference.

Wild food

Subsidise the larder in a sustainable way. From fishing, to shooting, to foraging safely, find it among these articles.

Conservation and the environment

Conserve our world for future generations. See how you can help in these pages.

Marketplace

From shopping with a conscience to building your own enterprise. Find advice and encouragement among these pages.

Everything else

Sometimes the diversity of downsizing can throw up an unusual topic.

Editorial

Past editorial items from the downsizer front page.

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Editorial

Past editorial items from the downsizer front page.

Welcome to Downsizer
Spring 2015
New Year 2014
Midwinter 2012
Autumn 2015
August 2012
Editorial Summer 2012
June 2012
May 2012
Spring 2012
January 2012
Christmas 2011
Autumn 2011
Mid Summer 2011
Late Spring 2011
Spring 2011
Welcome to winter 2010!
Autumn 2014
Summer 2010
Spring 2010
March 2010
February 2010
January 2010
December 2009
November 2009
Autumn 2009
June 2009
May 2009
March 2009
February 2009
January 2009
December 2008
November 2008
August 2008
July 4th 2008
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