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"Easy recipes, DIY projects, and other ideas for living a beautiful and low-waste life, from the expert behind @simply.living.well on Instagram"--
For every area of your household, Watkins shows you how to eliminate wasteful packaging, harmful ingredients, and disposable items. Practical checklists outline easy swaps and sustainable upgrades for common household tools and products. Watkins also shares rituals, recipes, and projects for living simply...
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City-dwellers across the country are finding creative new ways to live, and urban farmers are reclaiming heirloom agrarian practices as strategies for responsible living. Get to know real people who are changing their lives and the lives of their neighbors through the urban homesteading movement.
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Wondering what breed of chickens to raise? Want to make your own lacto-fermented pickles? Did you know that Epsom salt can be an excellent fertilizer for your garden? Full of step-by-step instructions for essential country living skills interspersed with country lore, interesting tidbits, and plenty of useful tips and tricks, this book is a handy companion and a fascinating read.
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"A beautiful and modern handbook for keeping home the natural way. Home is a haven, a place of refuge. But did you know it might be making you sick? If your home is cluttered, overwhelming, and full of chemicals, it's time to detox. [This book] helps you declutter and clean with natural, homemade products that are healthy for you and your family. You'll find information on why you should start going organic now and the best organic cleaning products...
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"Packed with step-by-step instructions, useful tips, time-honored wisdom, and both illustrations and photographs, this compact guide has everything you need to dive into a more self-sufficient life. From canning and preserving to keeping chickens, from fermenting vegetables to soap making, Gehring covers all the basics in this easy-to-read, approachable collection"--Page 4 of cover.
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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...
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Raleigh Briggs teaches us how to craft a sustainable domestic life without relying on smelly, toxic, expensive consumer products. And it's not as hard as we may think! This hand written and drawn book of charming tutorials is both fun and accessible. It's full of simple skills that anyone can and should learn. From creating healthy tinctures and salves to concocting all-natural cleaners and body products to gardening basics, this book is great for...
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We have a worldwide trash epidemic. The average American disposes of 4.4 pounds of garbage per day, and our landfills hold 254 million tons of waste. What if there were a simple and fun way for you to make a difference? What if you could take charge of your own waste, reduce your carbon footprint, and make an individual impact on an already fragile environment? A zero waste lifestyle is the answer and Shia Su is living it. Every single piece of unrecyclable...
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Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family's food on just a quarter acre -- and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require. Even if you have never been a farmer or a gardener, this book covers everything you need to know to get started: buying and saving seeds, starting seedlings, establishing raised...
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They say that every little bit helps, so just imagine what you can do with this collection of great tips on how to green clean everything. From the kitchen to the bathroom, as well as the odd spot or stain, learn how to do cleaning the green way and help the environment and your back pocket at the same time. There's no need for fancy cleaning products with key miracle ingredients like baking soda, lemon juice and vinegar. Including recipes for your...
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USE LITTLE AND LIVE BIG!Reuse, reimagine, recycle, and “use little, Live big” are the watchwords and personal motto of sustainability expert and author Alice Alvrez, whose guide to going green contains a year's worth of achievable eco ideas. With these terrific tips and tricks, you can save money and the planet by making your household footprint planet-positive. With the gentle guidance and eco-expertise in this book, you can start with baby steps...
13) The naturally clean home: 150 nontoxic recipes for cleaning and disinfecting with essential oils
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"In this updated edition of her best-selling book, Karyn Siegel-Maier brings together the formulas for home cleaning solutions that readers have trusted for years with new information and ingredients updated to today's green standards."--
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Fifty ways to make your home a sustainable and eco-friendly environment.
Every decision you make, large and small, has an impact on the environment. This concise guide shows how you can make your daily impact planet-positive. With sections progressing from simple tips to deeper commitments, you can start with baby steps and move on to advanced eco-warrior!
Discover dozens of inspired ideas that show how to:
*Reduce your waste
*Eat organic
*Keep...
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A gathering of information and source of inspiration for homesteaders everywhere.
With over thirty-five years of combined experience, homesteaders Stephanie Thurow and Michelle Bruhn have taught thousands of people across the globe how to garden, preserve food, tend backyard chickens, cook from scratch, and care for their families with natural homemade alternatives. Now, their homesteading knowledge and instruction can be found in one place with...
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"Trying to avoid all those harmful chemicals in your home and looking for natural solutions? Household Hints has hundreds of fresh, safe, and effective tips, techniques, and recipes---and many are made from the wholesome ingredients already in your kitchen and garden. Inside you'll learn how to make cleaning solutions, scrubs, pet tips, natural pest control, gardening, yard, and even beauty care. These recipes and tips for the home are organized...
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Do you want to relieve stress by bringing order to your life once and for all?Are You Pulling Your Hair Out Because Your Life Is A Disorganized Mess?Feel like a chicken running around with your head cut off?Is your house a mess? Papers piling up on your kitchen counter. You can no longer see what color the top of your desk is. And it's getting harder and harder to feel comfortable in your own home with the mess. The hectic schedule. And the unorganized...
20) 1,001 country home tips & tricks: household hints for cleaning, gardening, cooking, sewing, and more
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"This comprehensive collection of practical tips covers all aspects of keeping a country home, from painting a wall to removing wine stains, making perfect pastry to making your own window cleaner. In addition, find advice for cleaning carpets, making jam, wallpapering, knitting, sewing, and more! Woven throughout are poems and proverbs, legends and lore, making this an enjoyable read and a perfect housewarming gift." -- page [4] of cover.
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