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Home, Garden, and DIY July 2019
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Do-it-yourself garden projects and crafts : 60 planters, bird houses, lotion bars, garlands, and more!
by Debbie Wolfe
What is it: This book offers sixty practical and decorative projects using homegrown and foraged materials, including herbal lotion bars, seed bombs, bird feeders, sun catchers, and hand scrub
What's inside: Detailed, step-by-step instructions as well as simple crafting and gardening tips that will make your projects successful.
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| Perfect Pan Pizza: Square Pies to Make at Home, from Roman, Sicilian, and Detroit... by Peter Reinhart; photos by Johnny AutryWhat it is: A beautifully photographed, creative guide to making delicious pan pizza at home, written by an obsessed pizza expert who offers clear explanations as well as tools, tips, tricks, and techniques.
Recipes include: Naturally Leavened Dough; Crushed Tomato Pizza Sauce; The Classic Red Stripe Pizza; Veggie "Pepperoni" Pizza; Bacon and Egg Pizza; Herbed Tomato and Pesto Focaccia. |
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| A Way to Garden: A Hands-On Primer for Every Season by Margaret RoachWhat it is: An updated version of the gardening expert's 1998 book, which offers many tips and is arranged by a plant's life cycle over the course of a year; it also thoughtfully explores how both the author and the gardening world have changed over 21 years.
Reviewers say: "A compelling book to read straight through that is also useful as a reference for particular details" (Booklist, starred review). |
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CBD Every Day : 60 Cannabis Recipes for Relief and Relaxation Without the High
by Sandra Hinchliffe
What this holds inside: An introduction to a new world of cannabis pleasure and healing that you can experience every day. You'll find more than 60 allergy-friendly, preservative-free, artificial fragrance and dye-free recipes, usage and technique guides.
Why read it: You'll discover how to select and work with many strains of CBD-rich cannabis that are low in, or contain no, THC or other psychoactive cannabinoids. You'll learn how to prepare and enjoy a variety of CBD forms, such as flowers, resins, and oils. You'll also learn how to incorporate CBD into dozens of recipes including salad dressings, beverages, snacks, desserts, infusions, herbal medicines, and spa goodies like soap, bath bombs, salves, and lotions.
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Chickens in Your Backyard : A Beginner's Guide
by Gail Damerow
What is it: The basics (and beyond!) for raising happy, healthy chickens in cities, suburbs, and everywhere in between.
What's inside: This revised and updated edition combines all the classic techniques with the most up-to-date information--from incubating, raising, housing, and feeding, to treating disease and raising chickens for show..
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The Doable Off-Grid Homestead : Cultivating a Simple Life by Hand... On a Budget
by Shannon Stonger
What is it: Follow Shannon and Stewart Stonger, two self-made homesteaders, and their plan on how to start and succeed at homesteading.
What's inside: They'll show you how they did it, and how you can do it too, all on a budget. You'll learn how to plow your land, grow your own fruits and vegetables, create a viable water source for watering crops, harness energy from wind and the sun, preserve the harvest through canning and dehydration, raise livestock and much more. These attainable, game-changing tips and projects will allow you to live a simple, debt-free life and start your own agricultural homestead, all with your own two hands|́
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Grow Your Own in Pots : With 30 Step-by-step Projects Using Vegetables, Fruit, and Herbs
by Kay Maguire
What's is it: With this book you can turn the tiniest space into a productive and attractive plot, using the best varieties and techniques.
What's inside: Follow 30 tried-and-tested container recipes for top tasting crop combinations such as tomato with basil, fruit salads and cut-and come-again vegetables. Discover the essential techniques that every container-gardener should know and use the crop directory to find out the best way to grow more than 60 vegetables, fruit, salads, herbs and edible flowers.
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| Keep Out! Build Your Own Backyard Clubhouse: A Step-by-Step Guide by Lee MothesWhat it is: A cheerful, family-friendly guide to building your own clubhouse that includes basic plans for several types of treehouses and playhouses, with guidance on everything from how to use basic hand tools to how to build with inexpensive or recycled materials.
Read this next: For crafty outdoor activities this summer, check out Sew a Backyard Adventure by Susan Maw and Sally Bell. |
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