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Heirloom skills : a complete guide to modern homesteading
by Anders Rydell
"100 ways to embrace the simple life, with step-by-step instructions for keeping chickens, growing vegetables, making beer and wine, arranging flowers, soap making, and more! This is a home-management book for the twenty-first century. Alva Herdevall andAnders Rydell combine traditional methods with modern ideas to show that a higher degree of self-sufficiency is possible for everyone. You will learn the secrets of beekeeping, how to grow your own cut flowers, and how to bake a perfect loaf of sourdough. Discover how easy it is to churn butter, make your own yogurt, and raise chickens for meat and eggs. Turn rhubarb stalks into refreshing summer wine, perfect your compost pile, and make decadent and nontoxic skin creams. Keep chickens Grow and arrange flowersRaise bees Make soap Grow fresh veggies Can and ferment your produce Make sourdough bread And more! Complete with gorgeous photos throughout, this book is sure to inspire you or the homesteader in your life to expand your repertoire of heirloom skills"
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Yankee magazine's vinegar, duct tape, milk jugs & more : 1,001 ingenious ways to use common household items to repair, restore, revive, or replace just about everything in your life
by Earl Proulx
A treasury of tips for frugal homeowners presents more than one thousand ingenious, simple, and money-saving ideas for using common household items--including empty milk cartons, used coffee grounds, and worn-out clothing--to repair, restore, or replace all kinds of things around the house and garden. 10,000 first printing.
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The Martha manual : how to do (almost) everything
by Martha Stewart
An authoritative handbook by the domestic-lifestyle expert shares hundreds of ideas and instructions for homemaker skills, from transporting a decorated cake and folding an American flag to playing a classic lawn game and bathing a cat. 150,000 first printing.
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Home hints & tips : the new guide to natural, safe and healthy living
by Rosamond Richardson
A practical overview of environmentally friendly products for the home presents hundreds of helpful, tested tips that are easy to accomplish, affordable, and safe for the environment, covering everything from decorating with natural materials to natural cleaning and laundry methods, recycling, gardening, cooking, and more. Original. 15,000 first printing.
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