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Home, Garden, and DIY March 2020
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Body love every day : choose your life-changing 21-day path to food freedom
by Kelly LeVeque
What it is: Comprehensive 21-day plans for four different archetypal women: Girl on the Go wants a plan that's flexible enough to work with her busy schedule, Domestic Goddess is dedicated to building a healthy home through cooking with and using clean products, Plant-Based Devotee wants to incorporate the Fab Four into her vegetarian or vegan diet, Red-Carpet Ready gal wants to look her best for her next big event.
What you'll find: Recipes and nutrition information for every meal, exercise and movement for every day, stress management and energy recharge for nights and weekends, and emotional support to get you through the inevitable tough times.
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The defined dish : healthy and wholesome weeknight recipes
by Alex Snodgrass
Whole30 and beyond: With gluten-free, dairy-free and grain-free recipes that sound and look way too delicious to be healthy, this is a cookbook people can turn to after completing a Whole30, when they’re looking to reintroduce healthful ingredients like tortillas, yogurt, beans and legumes.
What you'll find: Many of the recipes are easy enough to prepare even after a busy day at work. There are no esoteric ingredients in these recipes, but instead something to suit every taste. Each dish is clearly marked if it is Whole30 compliant, paleo, gluten-free, dairy-free, and more.
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Easy Homemade Melt and Pour Soaps : A Modern Guide to Making Custom Creations Using Natural Ingredients & Essential Oils
by Jan Berry
What you'll find: A comprehensive, beginner-friendly guide to melt-and-pour soapmaking, including 50 inspiring recipes plus design tutorials and a stunning natural colorant gallery. Feel good about pampering yourself with these artisanal soaps featuring natural botanicals, colorants and exfoliants. The method is incredibly easy; all you need to do is melt your soap base, infuse it with healing herbs or flowers, add essential oils and natural colorants, and pour it into a beautiful mold. As soon as your soap is dry, it’s ready to use!
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| From Freezer to Cooker: Delicious Whole-Foods Meals for the Slow Cooker... by Polly Conner and Rachel TiemeyerHealthy, delicious meals have never been easier! beautifully photographed, and rigorously tested!
What's inside: versatile, freezer-friendly recipes for busy households featuring non-processed meals that can be made in either a pressure cooker, slow cooker or an Instant Pot. Includes tips for freezing and basics for using the appliances.
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The Joy of Living With Less : How to Downsize to 100 Items and Liberate Your Life
by Mary Lambert
Decluttering: Explains how having too much clutter can stop you moving forward in life, and how learning to let go of items we neither love or need is liberating and fulfilling.
What to do: The challenge starts with an inventory of your personal possessions, then you begin the process of clearing out your items, addressing each area at a time, from clothes, to jewelry, to hobby items. Once you've tackled your personal items, you can get started on the rest of your household goods.
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Lettering for Absolute Beginners Workbook : Complete Faux Calligraphy How-to Guide With Simple Projects
by Danielle Stringer
Designed to: teach you how to create gorgeous lettering with any pen on any surface, no brush pen or calligraphy nib necessary! You’ll learn how to draw letters, words, inspirational phrases, and bible verses in multiple alphabet styles by practicing outlining letters and thickening downstrokes.
Simple, approachable, and fun: This method is versatile for any surface so you can create stunning faux calligraphy on paper, chalkboards, wood, glass, and more!
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| Martha Stewart's Organizing: The Manual for Bringing Order to Your Life, Home & Routines by Martha StewartWhat it is: a practical, beautifully photographed how-to guide for organizing not only your home, but also your life, using routines and monthly checklists and offering hundreds of ideas, projects, and tips that cover cooking, home care, gardening, scheduling, and more.
Why is it a good thing? It's lovely to look at, wonderfully organized, and includes a few surprises, such as recipes and crafts. |
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Nature's Best Hope : A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard
by Douglas W. Tallamy
Problem: Wildlife populations are in decline because the native plants they depend on are fast disappearing.
Solution: Shows how homeowners everywhere can turn their yards into conservation corridors that provide wildlife habitats. Because this approach relies on the initiatives of private individuals, it is immune from the whims of government policy. You will walk away with specific suggestions you can incorporate into your own yard.
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| The Bee-Friendly Garden: Design an Abundant, Flower-Filled Yard That Nurtures... by Kate Frey and Gretchen LeBuhnWhat it is: a practical and insightful volume to creating your own bee garden that covers "super bloomers," seasonal progression, nest boxes, and more. Illustrated with spectacular full-color photos.
Everything you need to know: to create a dazzling garden that helps both the threatened honeybee and our own native bees. No matter how small or large your space, and regardless of whether you live in the city, suburbs, or country, just a few simple changes to your garden can fight the effects of colony collapse disorder and the worldwide decline in bee population that threatens our global food chain. |
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Gardening for birds, butterflies & bees : everything you need to know to create a wildlife habitat in your backyard
by Birds & Blooms
Why you'll want this: Birds, butterflies and bees rely on plants, trees and shrubs to survive and thrive. That's why doing your part for the environment by establishing critter-friendly areas in your own backyard is so crucial.
What's inside: Irresistible plants for attracting birds, butterflies, and bees, creative garden designs for year-round beauty, and our top plant lists to take the guesswork out of gardening. Plus you'll get the latest tips and advice for supporting the dwindling bee population, which experts say is essential for the future of gardening.
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How to Create Your Garden : Ideas and Advice for Transforming Your Outdoor Space
by Adam Frost
Design a garden that reflects your practical needs, lifestyle, budget, personality, soil, and climate. Plan a complete garden makeover or a simple revamp of just one part of your garden, perhaps a tired herbaceous border, the patio, or a water feature.
Build it yourself following the clear, uncomplicated step-by-step instructions that show you everything from laying turf to terraces, planting trees or building a raised bed or water feature.
Enjoy it month by month with this simple checklist of what to do and when to keep your garden in shape.
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The New Gardener's Handbook: Grow a Beautiful & Bountiful Garden...
by Daryl Beyers
What it is: An appealingly comprehensive overview of gardening basics that encourages the use of both science and intuition. Readers will learn about soil, plant selection, propagation, planting and mulching, watering and feeding, pruning, and weeds, pests, and diseases. The information applies to both ornamental and edible plants.
Featuring: Inspiring photography, helpful illustrations and diagrams, and the Gardener's Glossary sidebars.
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Organic gardening for everyone : homegrown vegetables made easy (no experience required)
by CaliKim
Why you'll want this: Growing healthy organic vegetables for your family is not difficult, even for today's time-challenged lifestyles.
What you'll find: Complete step-by-step information on growing the most popular edibles organically, and also sound advice on how to take on the challenges of balancing a hectic lifestyle with successful growing-and how to involve the whole family in the process.
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The pollinator victory garden : win the war on pollinator decline with ecological gardening : how to attract and support bees, beetles, butterflies, bats, and other pollinators
by Kim Eierman
Pollinators are critical: to our food supply and responsible for the pollination of the vast majority of all flowering plants on our planet. Pollinators include not just bees, but many different types of animals, including insects and mammals - beetles, bats, birds, butterflies, moths, flies and wasps can be pollinators.
Give pollinators a fighting chance: Learn how to transition your landscape into a pollinator haven by creating a habitat that includes pollinator nutrition, larval host plants for butterflies and moths, and areas for egg laying, nesting, sheltering, overwintering, resting, and warming. Find a wealth of information to support pollinators while improving the environment around you.
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Pruning simplified : a visual guide to 50 trees and shrubs
by Steve Bradley
What it is: A plant-by-plant guide profiling 50 of the most popular trees and shrubs with easy-to-follow instructions for pruning and shaping each one.
What's included: Expert advice on the best tools for the job, specific details on when to prune, and clear instructions on how to prune. Includes illustrated instructions that will ensure you make the right cut the first time.
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Longwood Public Library800 Middle Country RoadMiddle Island, New York 11953(631) 924-6400longwoodlibrary.org |
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