Download or read book Country Living written by Susan Waggoner and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers household hints and practical solutions to everyday problems, covering such diverse topics as clutter control, gardening, baking, and cleaning.
Download or read book Country Living Simple Country Wisdom written by Susan Waggoner and published by Hearst. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home & house maintenance.
Download or read book Old Time Country Wisdom Lore written by Jerry Mack Johnson and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of old-fashioned country wisdom on all kinds of topics describes how to make and cook things, read the weather, and dowse; and provides lore on animals and plants.
Download or read book Country Wisdom Know How written by Editors of Storey Publishing and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 3156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Country Wisdom & Know-How is the most complete volume on every aspect of country and self-sustained living, from home and garden to barn and beyond. From Storey Publishing's landmark series Country Wisdom Bulletins, this comprehensive collection offers step-by-step instructions on nearly 200 individual topics, providing everything you need to know about sustainability, self-sufficiency, homesteading, and DIY living. Topics include: Animals: attracting backyard birds; building bathhouses and birdfeeders; training and caring for cats and dogs; raising rabbits, ducks, and game birds; buying and selling horses; building chicken coops; beginning beekeeping; Cooking: the basics of bread baking; making cheese, butter, and yogurt; cooking game; preserving and pickling; homebrewing and making homemade wine Crafts: stenciling, quilting, and basket-weaving; making wreaths, potpourri, and natural soaps; homemade gifts and decorations Gardening: starting your garden; caring for flowers and shrubs; controlling weeds; landscaping; growing vegetables, root crops, fruits, berries, kitchen herbs, and more Health and Wellbeing: natural home remedies; herbs for lifelong health; essential oils and aromatherapy; teas and recipes for a healthy diet Home: simple home repairs; building furniture; restoring hardwood floors; making curtains; building fences, root cellars, and smokehouses And so much more! With nearly 2,000 black-and-white illustrations, diagrams, and photographs, and trusted advice on every page, this is the most thorough and reliable volume of its kind. This book is also a part of the Know-How series which includes other titles such as: Woodworking Wisdom & Know-How Natural Healing Wisdom & Know-How Craft Wisdom & Know-How Garden Wisdom & Know-How
Download or read book Country Living Mini Makeovers written by Country Living and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it’s time for a quick change, these 250 mini-makeovers for your home are fun and easy! No major remodeling necessary! Sometimes, all it takes are a few small changes to refresh your home and make you happy. These micro-decorating ideas from Country Living add beauty to every room, whether you’re swapping your old coffee table for an antique bench, creating an eye-catching display in a passageway, or energizing your bedroom by playing with different patterns. You’ll discover new possibilities for things to do, make, buy, and repurpose, and every chapter shows how to revive any space, from living and dining rooms to entryways, mudrooms, home offices, and porches. These fun mini-decorating moves can be as simple as selecting a dark wall color to cozy up a bedroom, showcasing vintage mirrors in the bathroom, or covering stair risers with whimsical floral wallpaper. You’ll also find projects like decoupaging a dresser or tricking out a plain kitchen screen door—and most of them can be done in just one weekend. Pack a punch with simple switches for any space! Transform any room—one easy, inspirational idea at a time.
Download or read book Country Living Simple Country Wisdom written by Susan Waggoner and published by Union Square + ORM. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a leading American lifestyle magazine, advice and tips to easily create a clean, organized, relaxing, and inviting home—includes photos. Has life become a bundle of stress and mess? Top-selling author Susan Waggoner has the solution. This ingenious, fun-to-read illustrated guide offers tried-and-true household hints and practical solutions to everyday problems, from the “A-to-Z Guide to Food” to “The Tao of Laundry.” Whether it's a no-scrub trick to make bathroom faucets gleam or surefire advice on keeping your house harmonious with as little fuss as possible, Country Living Simple Country Wisdom is the key to creating a home that's cheerful, welcoming, and warm.
Download or read book Country Wisdom Almanac written by Editors of Storey Publishing's Country Wisdom Bulletins and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-02-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling Country Wisdom Almanac provides hundreds of ideas and methods for living the good and simple life, plus information on weather, gardening, buying produce and cooking by season, holidays, frost dates, moon phases, and more. Divided into the four seasons and then organized into 373 individual tips, the Country Wisdom Almanac presents a wide variety of ways to live a simpler, more self-sustained life year round. Each season offers home-improvement ideas (wallpaper a room in the Fall or build a stone wall in the Spring), crafts (create gorgeous homemade decorations for Christmas, Halloween, or the Fourth of July), recipes (use seasonal produce to create fresh, healthy meals), gardening advice (what and when to plant in order to get the maximum results from your land), and more.
Download or read book Making Natural Milk Soap written by Casey Makela and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 1999-01-06 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
Download or read book Build Your Own Underground Root Cellar written by Phyllis Hobson and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 1983-01-08 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
Download or read book Building Stone Walls written by Charles McRaven and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 1999-01-11 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
Download or read book Storey s Basic Country Skills written by John Storey and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you live on a small suburban lot or have a many acres in the country, this inspiring collection will empower you to increase your self-sufficiently and embrace a more independent lifestyle. A variety of authors share their specialized knowledge and provide practical instructions for basic country skills like preserving vegetables, developing water systems, keeping farm animals, and renovating barns. From sharpening an axe to baking your own bread, you’ll be amazed at the many ways learning traditional skills can enrich your life.
Download or read book Making Your Own Incense written by Tina Sams and published by Storey Publishing. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Country Living written by Carla Emery and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the garden or barnyard to the kitchen table, here is a comprehensive resource for step-by-step information about food production. Filled with more than 1,000 recipes, 700 mail-order sources, how-to instructions, and earthly wisdom gleaned from a lifetime of self-sufficient living, this thorough, reliable treasury should be in every home. Features 300 illustrations.
Download or read book The Sweetness of a Simple Life written by Diana Beresford-Kroeger and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of The Global Forest--an international bestseller and a classic upon publication, beloved by readers around the world--gives us her tips and advice for achieving better health and peace of mind, with frugality, simplicity and pleasure not far behind. In The Sweetness of a Simple Life, Diana Beresford-Kroeger mixes science with storytelling, wonderment, magic, myth and plenty of common sense. After pursuing a Ph.D. in medical biochemistry, Beresford-Kroeger set out on a quest to preserve the world's forests. In this warm and wise collection of essays, she gives us a guide for living simply and well: which foods to eat and which to avoid; how to clean our homes and look after pets; how we can protect ourselves and our loved ones from illness; and why we need to appreciate nature. She provides an easy dose of healing, practical wisdom, blending modern medicine with aboriginal traditions. This inspiring, accessible book emphasizes back to basics, with the touchstone not an exotic religion or meditation practice, but the natural world around us.
Download or read book Garden Wisdom and Know How written by Judy Pray and published by Black Dog & Leventhal Pub. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents step-by-step instructions and resources for gardening, including knowing the soil, planning, starting seeds, and making and using organic fertilizer.
Download or read book Red Sky at Night written by Jane Struthers and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The indispensable guide to everything we knew and loved before modern life got in the way. This gorgeous and beautifully illustrated countryside miscellany is the perfect purchase for anyone wanting to go back to their roots and rediscover a lost world... 'Beautiful book' -- ***** Reader review 'A delightful book with some lovely illustrations' -- ***** Reader review 'A heart-warming read, I love this book' -- ***** Reader review 'Magical' -- ***** Reader review 'Lovely book to just DELVE into' -- ***** Reader review 'A little gem!' -- ***** Reader review 'Sheer delight!' -- ***** Reader review **************************************************************************************************** Ever wondered how to predict the weather just by looking at the sky? Or wanted to attract butterflies to your garden? Is there a knack to building the perfect bonfire? And how exactly do you race a ferret? In this world of traffic tailbacks, supermarket shopping and 24-hour internet access, it's easy to feel disconnected from the beauty and rhythms of the natural world. If you have ever gazed in awe at stars in the night's sky, tried to catch a perfect snowflake or longed for the comfort of a roaring log fire, then this is the book for you. From spotting Britain's five kinds of owl to gardening by the phases of the moon, from curing a cold to brewing your own ale, and from navigating by the stars to making sloe gin, Red Sky at Night is packed with instructions and lists, ancient customs and old wives tales, making it an indispensable guide to countryside lore.
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