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Got a little space and a hankering for fresh eggs? Robert and Hannah Litt have dispensed advice to hundreds of urban and suburban chicken-keepers from behind their perch at Portland's Urban Farm Store, and now they're ready to help you go local and sustainable with your own backyard birds. In this handy guide to breeds, feed, coops, and care, the Litts take you under their experienced wings and share the secrets to: - Picking the breeds that are right for you
- Building a sturdy coop in one weekend for $100
- Raising happy and hearty chicks
- Feeding your flock for optimal health and egg nutrition
- Preventing and treating common chicken diseases
- Planning ahead for family, neighborhood, and legal considerations
- Whipping up tasty egg recipes from flan to frittata With everything that first-timers will need to get started--along with expert tips for more seasoned keepers--this colorful, nuts-and-bolts manual proves that keeping chickens is all it's cracked up to be.
- Building a sturdy coop in one weekend for $100
- Raising happy and hearty chicks
- Feeding your flock for optimal health and egg nutrition
- Preventing and treating common chicken diseases
- Planning ahead for family, neighborhood, and legal considerations
- Whipping up tasty egg recipes from flan to frittata With everything that first-timers will need to get started--along with expert tips for more seasoned keepers--this colorful, nuts-and-bolts manual proves that keeping chickens is all it's cracked up to be.
Your answer to the high price of eggs--keeping chickens--is also a fun way to reconnect with nature and your food sources. This is your down-to-earth, common-sense guide. Ditch the super-technical manuals and discover the joys and benefits of a backyard flock, and how to keep it healthy and happy, with poultry personality Andy Schneider, aka the Chicken Whisperer. In this revised and expanded edition of The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping Chickens, Andy tells you everything you need to know about raising a backyard flock! This easygoing, comprehensive guide is a perfect fit for your busy lifestyle. Inside, you'll learn about: The benefits of a backyard chicken flock The art of incubation Living with brooding hens Setting up coops and runs Proper poultry nutrition Preventing and treating common illnesses and ailments
And that's just for a start, so why not start your flock today?
And that's just for a start, so why not start your flock today?
Children love flowers, plants and the outdoors, and there is no better way to encourage this appreciation than having a garden designed specifically for children to enjoy and help maintain. This introduction to garden design shows how children can learn about the natural world, conservation and responsibility in the back garden.
China Modern showcases 39 innovative homes, bars and restaurants with Chinese-inspired interiors from locations including Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
Since the 1890s, providing places for people to garden has been an inventive strategy to improve American urban conditions. There have been vacant-lot gardens, school gardens, Depression-era relief gardens, victory gardens, and community gardens-each representing a consistent impulse to return to gardening during times of social and economic change. In this critical history of community gardening in America, the most comprehensive review of the greening of urban communities to date, Laura J. Lawson documents the evolution of urban garden programs in the United States. Her vibrant narrative focuses on the values associated with gardening, the ebb and flow of campaigns during times of social and economic crisis, organizational strategies of these primarily volunteer campaigns, and the sustainability of current programs.
This comprehensive guide has everything you need to know to successfully design and maintain an urban garden in whatever space and conditions you have available. As Katherine Powis writes in the foreword, "City gardeners are up against it: the concrete and grit, the lack of light, the cramped spaces, and sun-scorched, wind-burned rooftops. And that's just what this book is about." Linda Yang gives you the information and guidance you need to create beautiful gardens and outdoor spaces, profiling dozens of beautiful, hardy plants that thrive in cities and offering expert advice on everything from preparing your soil to managing pests. Filled with charming anecdotes and stunning photographs, The City Gardener's Handbook will inspire you to bring the joys of the garden into your metropolis.
The City Homesteader is the handbook for the world of self-sufficient living. It's about living tangibly in a virtual world. It's about being resourceful, saving money, reducing consumption, and increasing self-reliance. Join the many who are raising backyard chickens in the city and tilling their side yards: tapping into natural energy, managing homes more efficiently, and getting back to the earth.
Explore the homesteading arts: gardening on small and large scales, raising dwarf fruit trees, sprouting grains, smoking meats and fish, grinding grains for flour, making cheese, making wine, cellaring, heating without fossil fuel, harvesting rainwater, composting, and much moreThe City Homesteader provides all the basics, including how to find supplies and step-by-step instructions that make it easy to follow along. Original illustrations throughout help you create your very own homestead on any piece of earth.
Enter the fascinating world of bonsai, the centuries-old gardening art form of cultivating trees as potted plants. Refined to a high art in Japan, bonsai offers not only the familiar gardening delights but also, at its highest levels, a philosophical and aesthetic communion with nature. Here in CLASSIC BONSAI OF JAPAN, the Nippon Bonsai Association, Japan's preeminent voice of the bonsai tradition, introduces a collection of the finest bonsai pieces to be found in Japan today-some of them presented to a Western audience for the first time. Over 130 full color and 48 black-and-white plates of priceless specimens with informative commentary provide a definitive tour of the bonsai world-from a 15-year-old flowering cherry to a majestic 1,000-year-old Yezo spruce. The notes for each piece offer insights into the balance, style, harmony, and overall aesthetic effect along with comments on the history of its cultivation at the hands of several generations of bonsai masters. John Bester brings his intimate knowledge of Japanese culture and sensibility to an elegant interpretation of bonsai art specifically adapted to Western readers. Essays on appreciation, history, and aesthetics further invite readers to enjoy this "natural" art on an informed level. A feast for the eyes as well as a lasting monument to the history of an artistic tradition, this deluxe volume is sure to delight the bonsai enthusiast, garden hobbyist, lover of things Japanese-indeed anyone with an interest in looking at art and nature in unison.
Learn how easy it is to make simple swaps in your cleaning and tidying methods for a more eco-friendly home. This beautifully illustrated black-and-white guide with 101 hints and sustainable, natural cleaning tips and hacks will help you take small steps that have a massive positive environmental impact. In Clean & Green, Nancy Birtwhistle shares the simple recipes and methods she has developed since making a conscious effort to live more sustainably, many of which are faster and easier than the go-to products and methods most of us use now. From everyday cleaning and laundry tips to zero-effort oven cleaner and guidance on removing tricky stains from clothing and furniture, these economical, practical methods are perfect for anyone looking to reduce their use of plastic and throwaway products. Nancy shares her tried-and-tested recipes for all-purpose cleaners, replacements for harmful chemicals, as well as planners and to-do lists that will keep both your home and the planet clean and green for future generations. Includes metric measures.
How many times have you said you're killing yourself trying to keep your house clean? You might have been joking, but you're closer to the truth than you think if you're using expensive commercial cleansers. Karen Logan, an environmentalist with years of experience developing and selling her own line of eco-friendly cleaning products, reveals the secret of using simple, ordinary ingredients life baking soda, vinegar, soap, lemon juice, and salt to make safe, inexpensive cleaners.
In Clean Mama's Guide to a Healthy Home, Becky Rapinchuk, author of Simply Clean and creator of the popular cleaning website Clean Mama, provides a step-by-step guide to take charge of your home's wellness with a comprehensive, all-natural cleaning system.
Scientific evidence points to a clear link between household chemicals and a number of diseases and chronic health issues. Drawing on this research, Rapinchuk's program delivers an organized, beautiful, toxic-free, environmental-friendly household by providing readers with:
Cleanliness is about detoxing, embracing organic, all-natural methods and products, and protecting the environment. Moms look to Becky to guide them in the best cleaning practices for their home, and will welcome Clean Mama's Guide to a Healthy Home, which shows that going natural isn't just a better way to a cleaner home--it's vital to the health of our bodies, our families, and our planet.
The author of the international bestseller "Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui" presents a concise guide to clearing clutter from the home--as well as from the body, mind, and spirit. Line drawings.
In this revised and updated edition of her classic, bestselling book, Karen Kingston draws on her wealth of experience as a clutter clearing, space-clearing, and feng shui practitioner to show you how to transform your life by letting go of clutter.
Her unique approach lies in understanding that clutter is stuck energy that has far-reaching physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual effects. You'll be motivated to clutter clear as never before when you realize just how much your junk has been holding you back!
You will learn:
- How clutter causes stagnation in your life
- How to clear clutter quickly and effectively
- How to live clutter-free
This technique can save the earth--while resulting in a beautiful garden, too!
Climate Conscious Gardener picks up where Brooklyn Botanic Gardening's groundbreaking Environmental Gardener left off, giving homeowners, landscapers, and public park managers practical strategies for greening the planet through sustainable and organic gardening. In simple terms, an introductory section explains what happens when the balance of carbon and nitrogen in the atmosphere goes awry, and how plants, soil, and synthetic gardening aids (such as fertilizer and pesticides) affect climate change. Most important, readers will learn how to calculate their garden's carbon footprint--and what they can do to decrease it in their own backyard and beyond.
What can we do, right now, in our own landscapes, to help solve climate change?
Predictions about future effects of climate change range from mild to dire - but we're already seeing warmer winters, hotter summers, and more extreme storms. Proposed solutions often seem expensive and complex, and can leave us as individuals at a loss, wondering what, if anything, can be done.
Sue Reed and Ginny Stibolt offer a rallying cry in response - instead of wringing our hands, let's roll up our sleeves. Based on decades of experience, this book is packed with simple, practical steps anyone can take to beautify any landscape or garden, while helping protect the planet and the species that call it home. Topics include:
This book is the ideal tool for homeowners, gardeners, and landscape professionals who want to be part of the solution to climate change.
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Play dress-up with your art!
Paper dolls have never been so fashionable! In Collage Couture Studio: Paper Dolls, you'll be introduced to five fashion-forward dolls from around the world--dress them up in the outfits provided or design your own. Send them out to a London dress shop, the flea markets of Paris and the gardens of Japan. Make a paper doll chain, a treasure box or a beautiful and richly textured collage. This is a book like none other--and with so many cool and unique projects, you'll have countless hours of creative fun.
Inside, you'll find:
An ingenious and foolproof guide to decorating with color by one of America's foremost color and interior design experts.
Color is the backbone of decorating and comes into play in nearly every decorating decision. But decorating with color can be intimidating, even for professionals. There are so many decisions to be made--about wall colors and window treatments, sofas and throw pillows, floor stains and rugs, bathroom tiles and towels, even the colors of a flower bed. The result is that many of us--designers included--fall back on boring but safe shades of whites and neutrals. Joann Eckstut, one of America's foremost experts on color, has devised a system for choosing the most harmonious color combinations in "The Color Palette Primer," featuring more than 800 error-proof palettes.
Each page focuses on a single dominant color, with three distinct palettes that contain the dominant color alongside an accent color and a neutral secondary color. This system allows readers to locate the one color they know they'd like to use (or that they're stuck with!) and see three very different uses for that color. Instead of photographs, which date quickly, there are eight iconic line drawings throughout showing vignettes of rooms (upholstery, window treatments, walls and moldings, etc.) and how the given palettes look in these contexts. All of the colors correspond to paints that are available nationally.
For everyone intrigued by the endless possibilities of color, but fearful of creating a decorating fiasco, this is "the" foolproof solution.
In "The Color Palette Primer," you'll find perfect color combinations for every situation--whether you're starting from scratch orcoordinating with existing colors. You'll need this book if you are:
- Painting your house--inside or out
- Buying or reupholstering furniture
- Renovating a kitchen or bathroom
- Adding decorative accents--from lampshades to throw pillows
- Buying new bedding
- Planning a flower bed
- Choosing bath towels
- Picking out a carpet or rug
- Staining your floors
- Adding window treatments
- Deciding on a new china pattern or table linens
- And much, much more!
Every color in this book corresponds to a paint color from a national brand. At the end of each section, you will find a page identifying the paints by brand. Here is the key to the brands:
- BM-CC Benjamin Moore Color Classics
- BM-CP Benjamin Moore Color Preview
- GL Glidden
- PL Pratt & Lambert
- RLP Ralph Lauren Paint
- SWC Sherwin Williams Color
- SWCA Sherwin Williams Color Preview
- SW-MS Sherwin Williams-Martha Stewart
Color Viewer
This neutral gray viewer allows you to see a palette on its own without the influence of the other palettes on the page or the white of the page around it. Once you find a palette you like, all you need to do is to place the viewer on the chosen palette so that it blocks out the white space around it.
Color is the backbone of decorating and comes into play in nearly every decorating decision. But decorating with color can be intimidating, even for professionals. There are so many decisions to be made--about wall colors and window treatments, sofas and throw pillows, floor stains and rugs, bathroom tiles and towels, even the colors of a flower bed. The result is that many of us--designers included--fall back on boring but safe shades of whites and neutrals. Joann Eckstut, one of America's foremost experts on color, has devised a system for choosing the most harmonious color combinations in "The Color Palette Primer," featuring more than 800 error-proof palettes.
Each page focuses on a single dominant color, with three distinct palettes that contain the dominant color alongside an accent color and a neutral secondary color. This system allows readers to locate the one color they know they'd like to use (or that they're stuck with!) and see three very different uses for that color. Instead of photographs, which date quickly, there are eight iconic line drawings throughout showing vignettes of rooms (upholstery, window treatments, walls and moldings, etc.) and how the given palettes look in these contexts. All of the colors correspond to paints that are available nationally.
For everyone intrigued by the endless possibilities of color, but fearful of creating a decorating fiasco, this is "the" foolproof solution.
In "The Color Palette Primer," you'll find perfect color combinations for every situation--whether you're starting from scratch orcoordinating with existing colors. You'll need this book if you are:
- Painting your house--inside or out
- Buying or reupholstering furniture
- Renovating a kitchen or bathroom
- Adding decorative accents--from lampshades to throw pillows
- Buying new bedding
- Planning a flower bed
- Choosing bath towels
- Picking out a carpet or rug
- Staining your floors
- Adding window treatments
- Deciding on a new china pattern or table linens
- And much, much more!
Every color in this book corresponds to a paint color from a national brand. At the end of each section, you will find a page identifying the paints by brand. Here is the key to the brands:
- BM-CC Benjamin Moore Color Classics
- BM-CP Benjamin Moore Color Preview
- GL Glidden
- PL Pratt & Lambert
- RLP Ralph Lauren Paint
- SWC Sherwin Williams Color
- SWCA Sherwin Williams Color Preview
- SW-MS Sherwin Williams-Martha Stewart
Color Viewer
This neutral gray viewer allows you to see a palette on its own without the influence of the other palettes on the page or the white of the page around it. Once you find a palette you like, all you need to do is to place the viewer on the chosen palette so that it blocks out the white space around it.