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1) Canning for a new generation: bold, fresh flavors for the modern pantry

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Krissoff, Liana

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Organized by season, Krissoff's recipes illustrate fresh ways to preserve the harvest throughout the year, employing techniques like water-bath canning that are safe and easy to follow. The recipes are all created with small-batch yields in mind, which will appeal to beginner canners and expert homesteaders alike. Krissoff addresses special diet concerns with recipes for low-sugar or sugar-free preserves, as well as methods for canning jams and preserves...

2) Homestead survival: an insider's guide to your great escape

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"A practical guide to self-sufficient and sustainable living from the star of Homestead Rescue. Do you wish for a more resilient, sustainable, and empowered way of providing for your family in uncertain times? Are you worried about unreliable power grids, uncertain water supplies, or overly complex food chains? Veteran homesteader and star of the Discovery Channel's Homestead Rescue Marty Raney shares a big-picture vision of how ordinary families...

3) The nourishing homestead: one back-to-the land family's plan for cultivating soil, skills, and spirit

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The Nourishing Homestead tells the story of how we can create truly satisfying, permanent, nourished relationships to the land, nature, and one another. The Hewitts offer practical ways to grow nutrient-dense food on a small plot of land, and think about your farm, homestead, or home as an ecosystem. Much of what the Hewitts have come to understand and embrace about their lives of deep nourishment is informed by their particular piece of land and...

4) Mend it, wear it, love it!: stitch your way to a sustainable wardrobe

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Learn how to use simple sewing and mending techniques to extend the life of the clothes you love. Have you ever thrown good clothes away simply because you didn't know how to mend them? Have you got clothes that you can't bear to part with, but need a fresher look? Then this book is for you. With fast fixes and complete makeovers, Mend It, Wear It, Love It! has everything you need to mend and care for your clothes, and stitch your way to a more sustainable...

5) Big book of botanical crafts: how to make candles, soaps, scrubs, sanitizers & more with plants, flowers, herbs & essential oils

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Rose, Stephanie

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Go green, get clean, and be serene with these 30 all-natural soap, candle, and cleaner recipes from renowned herbalist Stephanie Rose! If you are looking for creative ways to reduce chemicals, harness the healing power of nature, and pamper yourself with healing herbs, fresh flowers, and essential oils, look no further. Author, avid gardener, and herbalist Stephanie Rose has rounded up her best-loved botanical recipes in this massive book to teach...

6) Candlemaking for the first time

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It's easy to make beautiful, scented candles to decorate your home, give as gifts and illuminate your world with help from this guide. Full-colour photographs showcase more than a dozen projects you can recreate or customise to your liking.

7) Making soap: 18 luxurious soaps to make and give using natural ingredients

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Landmann, Kathrin

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"Beautifully photographed, this beginner-friendly guide has everything you need to make 18 lovely soaps. Inspirational for seasoned soap-makers as well, the recipes use only natural ingredients that are kind to the skin and our environment. From olive oil to juniper and cucumber to honey, there are lots of gorgeous fragrances and colours to satisfy everyone. With comprehensive information on where to start and what you need, the book includes essential...

8) The complete guide to creating oils, soaps, creams, and herbal gels for your mind and body: 101 natural body care recipes

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Back To Basics Crafts

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Learn to create recipes for cleaning around your home, and how to use essential oil mixtures for essential beauty, baths, bath salts, shampoos, and more.

9) The organic composting handbook: techniques for a healthy, abundant garden

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Great compost is one of the most important secrets of successful organic gardening. In this comprehensive guide, you'll learn everything you need to know about the various methods of composting and how to adapt them to your home and garden.

10) Leather crafting starter book: tools, techniques, and 16 step-by-step projects for beginners

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"Anyone who wants to learn leather crafting can get started right away with this book's step-by-step presentations of basic techniques, from stitching and hand sewing to dyeing, punching, applique, pyrography, and more. 16 outstanding projects range from simple to complex designs"--

11) Basketry: 17 great weekend projects

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Weekend crafter

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Choose the techniques and colors you like best for customized baskets for your home. Discover how easy it is to dye materials and add embellishments and finishing touches.

12) DIY pickling: step-by-step recipes for fermented, fresh, and quick pickles

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From Japanese Tsukemono to Korean kimchi, from German sauerkraut to Indian chutney, pickling is part of a long and rich tradition of food culture around the world, and with DIY Pickling, making delicious sweet, sour, spicy and fermented pickles in your own kitchen has never been easier. --Publisher

13) Everyday woodworking: a beginners's guide to woodcraft with 12 hand tools

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"Everyday Woodworking starts at the very beginning--with wood. How can this common material make everything from furniture to houses? What makes it so strong? Why does it break? More importantly, what can you do to a piece of wood?This book explains why we choose each tool and how to pick the right cut for any project. Once you get a few tools and learn some simple techniques, you'll start making things right away. Each project is shown step-by-step...

14) Make thrift mend: stitch, patch, darn, plant-dye & love your wardrobe

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Rodabaugh, Katrina

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Slow fashion influencer Katrina Rodabaugh follows her bestselling book, Mending Matters, with a comprehensive guide to building (and keeping) a wardrobe that matters. Whether you want to repair your go-to jeans, refresh a favorite garment, thrift-shop like a pro, or dye, tailor, and reinvent clothing you already have--this book has all the know-how you'll need. Woven throughout are stories, essays, and a slow fashion call-to-action, encouraging readers...

15) Midwest foraging: 115 wild and flavorful edibles from burdock to wild peach

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Regional Foraging

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From fields to woodlands, riverbeds, and lakesides - and even in our own neighborhoods - the beautiful Midwest is rich in delicious wild edibles. Herbalist, forager, and urban farmer Lisa M. Rose helps you find peppery watercress and delectable nettles in the spring and nutritious burdock roots in the fall. Savor the delicate snow-pea flavor of rampant kudzu greens in the southern part of the region, or, in cool-running northern marsh waters, gather...

16) Kombucha revolution: 75 recipes for homemade brews, fixers, elixirs, and mixers

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"This guide from the founder of Kombucha Wonder Drink demystifies the process of brewing fermented tea, or kombucha, at home and offers recipes for using it in infusions, smoothies, cocktails, sauces, and more"--

17) Beekeeping: a handbook on honey, hives & helping the bees

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Petterson, Joachim

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From pollination, gardening, beekeeping, and recipes, this guide has everything amateur and veteran apiarists to keep a hive buzzing. Beekeeping might seem exotic or old-fashioned, but around the world it is becoming more and more common to find a hive or two in urban spaces and suburban backyards. Some modern beekeepers are inspired by the desire to help out the frequently beleaguered creatures, others simply enjoy fresh honey from the most local...

18) How to knit: the only technique book you will ever need

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Tomkies, Debbie

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"Teaching key skills such as how to read patterns and charts, which needles and yarn to choose, how to hold your work, casting on and off, essential stitches and finishing - this is the only book you need to get started on your knitting journey. And, once you've got the basics under your belt, there is a wide range of knitting techniques to explore - including lace, cables, textured patterns, beaded work and embellishments. This manual provides a...

19) A beginner's guide to sewing by hand and machine: a complete step-by-step course

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A Beginner's Guide to Sewing by Hand and Machine is a complete sewing course for first-timers. It starts by telling you which pieces of sewing kit you need to buy, explaining which fabrics to use, and how to use paper patterns. The second part of the book is a structured course of 12 workshops, which build from the most basic hand-sewing techniques through to more advanced dressmaking skills. At the end of each workshop, there is also a step-by-step...

20) Bread

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Brettschneider, Dean