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Put your backyard to work! Enjoy fresher, organic, better-tasting
food all the time. The solution is as close as your own backyard.
Grow the vegetables and fruits your family loves; keep bees; raise
chickens, goats, or even a cow. The Backyard Homestead shows
you how it's done. And when the harvest is in, you'll learn how to
cook, preserve, cure, brew, or pickle the fruits of your
labor.
From a quarter of an acre, you can harvest 1,400 eggs, 50 pounds... more...
Anyone can learn to store fruits and vegetables safely and
naturally with a cool, dark space (even a closet!) and the
step-by-step advice in this book.
Imagine a weekend breakfast featuring eggs, bacon, and honey from your own chickens, pigs, and bees. Or a holiday meal with your own heritage-breed turkey as the main attraction. With The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals, even urban and suburban residents can successfully raise chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, rabbits, goats, sheep, cows, pigs, and honey bees. It’s easier than you think, and it can be done on small plots of land. This... more...
How to be green, save green, grow greens-even turn a thumb
green.
Self-sufficient living can mean a healthier life, a way to protect
the earth, or a way to save money. This guide helps readers find
their perfect degree of self reliance in the areas of food,
shelter, energy, clothing, and more. For both the urban and rural
dweller, it covers gardening, cooking from scratch, preserving
food, raising livestock, keeping chickens, generating or... more...
Advances in solar technology have made many DIY-friendly
products available to consumers, several of which will be
hitting the market for the first time in 2011. These include
solar water heaters, solar battery charging stations, solar
powered lights, photovoltaic shingles that provide
supplementary electricity, solar heat pumps, and solar panel
kits that generate primary home electrical service. Among the... more...
The classic guide - revised and updated. The book that builders, architects, and students have relied on for almost 20 years has been completely updated to cover new materials, construction methods, and the latest building code revisions. The standard reference in its field, Rob Thallons Graphic Guide to Frame Construction is the ultimate visual guide to building with wood. Filled with hundreds of detailed drawings, helpful annotations, and... more...
Understand how to maintain everything in your home—including the kitchen sinkHow Your House Works, Second Edition reinforces the fact that it pays to be an informed consumer. Knowledge of your home's systems helps you control repair and construction costs and makes sure the correct elements are being installed or replaced. How Your House Works uncovers the mysteries behind just about every major appliance and building element in your house. Clear,... more...
A thorough, informative, and up-to-date reference on green, sustainable and energy-efficient home construction that clarifies definitions of green and sustainable and guides builders and architects through the process of new or remodel green construction, including issues of site, landscaping, durability, and energy-efficiency. It starts with clear explanations of the concepts and fundamentals of green, healthy and energy-efficient construction and... more...
Adding beautiful, functional patios and walkways to the yard has never been easier thanks to this book. Over 150 projects and hundreds of instructional photographs combine with informative tips, tricks, and inspiration for the most comprehensive patio and walkway book on the market. From low-cost, curb-appeal walkways to expansive, estate-quality decorative concrete patios complete with outdoor kitchens, this book presents each project with... more...
Manage everyday calculations instantly and accurately-saving
you time in the design, construction, and maintenance of all
types of structures
Covering all aspects of civil engineering calculations in an
easy-to-understand format, the new edition of the Handbook of
Civil Engineering Calculations is now revised and updated
with over 500 key calculations that show you exactly how to
compute the desired values for a particular... more...
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