A beginner's guide to self-sustainability in the suburbs Gardens, goats and chickens in the suburbs? Absolutely! The easy-to-follow advice in this book will show you everything you need to know to enjoy an abundant, independent life on food and products grown in your own back yard. You may feel like you have superpowers the first time you prepare a meal using only ingredients you grew in your garden. And is there anything you can't do after you lather up with a bar of soap that you made in you...
Whether your home is small or large, an apartment in the city or a country cottage, it is a space that should be at once beautiful and livable. The key to that is managing the upkeep without feeling flustered. Until now, there has never been a comprehensive resource that not only tells how to care for your home and everything in it, but that also simplifies the process by explaining just when. With secrets from Martha Stewart for accomplishing the most challenging homekeeping tasks with eas...
This invaluable guide to making clothes last longer is a loving reproduction of the publication. It is the original eco guide from a time when preserving our clothes was a necessity not a fashion. Make Do and Mend was for a generation for whom sewing came as second nature, but now it seems most of us are all fingers and thumbs when it comes to threading a needle, rushing out to buy a new blouse when the buttons fall off, or throwing away old socks when they get holes. Well not anymore. Be it f...
Country Living Simple Country Wisdom
by Susan Waggoner and "Country Living"
The ultimate guide to the art of cleaning, this reference is packed with professional secrets for getting maximum results through minimum results through minimum effort. Discover how to save time, money, and elbow grease on every cleaning problem, as well as how to prevent housework with surprising tricks of the trade. From aluminum siding to zoom lenses, this alphabetical index covers every job, big and small.
Color: The Complete Guide for Your Home: Better Homes and Garden
by Better Homes and Gardens
Learn to pick, match, complement, and contrast colors like a pro Color is an intimidating topic, and with trends changing as frequently as they do, it can be overwhelming to undertake home painting and decorating projects both big and small. Fortunately, educating yourself about color and gaining confidence in picking, matching, complementing, and contrasting colors is just a page away with Color . Here, you'll get a detailed discussion of color theory, with clear explanations of complementary...
Keeping Hearth & Home in Old Tennessee (Keeping Hearth & Home)
by Carol Padgett
This book offers practical and easy-to-follo w guidence from professionals on how to get your decorating right first time. Clear and precise projects detail all the equipment and materials needed to complete your home improve ments. '
Author Megean Weldon, aka The Zero Waste Nerd, gently guides you on an attainable, inspirational, mindful, and completely realistic journey to a sustainable living lifestyle. Find tips, strategies, recipes, and DIY projects for reducing waste in this approachable, beautifully designed and illustrated guide. What is zero waste living? Although the practice has been around for generations out of necessity, it is making a comeback as concerns grow about the fate of our environment. To put it simp...
The urban homesteading movement is spreading rapidly across the nation. Urban Homesteading is the perfect "back-to-the-land" guide for urbanites who want to reduce their impact on the environment. Full of practical information, as well as inspiring stories from people already living the urban homesteading life, this colorful guide is an approachable guide to learning to live more ecologically in the city. The book embraces the core concepts of localization (providing our basic needs close to whe...
Practical Enquire Within - A Practical Work that will Save Householders and Houseowners Pounds and Pounds Every Year - Volume IV
by Various
Since its founding in 1976, the non-profit Habitat for Humanity International has built more than 255,000 houses for more than one million people and families in need world wide. First published in 2002, "How to Build a House" has helped thousands more build simple, energy efficient homes of their own by helping guide them from foundation to roof, through all interior finishes and fixtures. Written by long-time carpenter and Habitat volunteer, Larry Haun, this extensive revision features up-to-d...
The ultimate resource for preparing your family for the worst With the increase in earthquakes, terrible storms, and political unrest over the last few years, it's more important than ever to be ready for unexpected emergencies and disasters. Owning a "bug-out bag" and stocking up on the essentials is a great place to start, but you will also need to hold onto the valuable information that will help you survive a crisis. From financial accounts and insurance policies to your family's blood type...
Harpers and Queen: a Comedy of Taste
by Meredith Etherington-Smith and Caroline Clifton-Mogg
2019 Recipe Diary Pineapples Design (The Recipe Diary)
by Emily Davenport
A unique diary with a practical week-to-view layout and 71 delicious triple-tested recipes so that you can try something new every week of the year. It has a handy pocket at the front for storing cards and receipts and features concealed wiro binding so that it lies flat when in use. There's even a sticker sheet with reminders for appointments and important dates. There are plenty of useful pages for recording details, such as personal contacts, useful websites, thoughts and plans plus birthday...
Go Green, Spend Less, Live Better is an authoritative, practical guide that details the money-saving side of greener, healthier, and simpler living. Bestselling author of It's Easy Being Green and sustainable-living expert Crissy Trask provides a prescriptive handbook for making better decisions about our homes, how we get around, what we eat, and how we behave as consumers, in order to simultaneously achieve two desirable and imperative goals-to be better off financially and to do what is good...