Produce Massive Yields with Your Vertical Garden!Would you like to feel:Confident and Self-Sufficient?Healthy and Natural?Engaged with Your Body?One with Nature?Abundant?If so, Olivia Abby’s Vertical Gardening: The Beginner's Guide To Organic & Sustainable Produce Production Without A Backyard is the book you’ve beeN searching for!Inside, you’ll find out how to join this growing movement and sow healt...

Discover timeless crafts and recipes for using this classic garden herb, plus helpful advice for growing your own.Lavender is a favorite plant among gardeners and herbalists, known for its calming scent, lovely color, and variety of uses when harvested.In Growing & Using Lavender, you’ll find:Information about growing 20 different types of lavender, including hardy and tender varietiesAdvice for planting, pruning, maintainin...

A beginner's guide to self-sustainability in the suburbsGardens, goats and chickens in the suburbs? Absolutely!The easy-to-follow advice in this book will show you everything you need to know to enjoy an abundant, independent life on food and products grown in your own back yard. You may feel like you have superpowers the first time you prepare a meal using only ingredients you grew in your garden. And is there anything you can't do after you lather up with...

Discover the art of candle making! Candle Making is a great hobby...or you can make candles for profit. In this book, learn how to make your own candles - Jar Candles, Votive Candles, Pillar Candles, Chunk Candles, Taper Candles and more! Get instructions and information on candle making.

A beginner's complete guide to keeping bees in top bar hives, and why.What's the buzz about the growing popularity of backyard beekeeping? Providing habitat for bees, pollinating your garden, and producing honey for your family are some of the compelling reasons for taking up this exciting hobby. But conventional beekeeping requires a significant investment and has a steep learning curve. The alternative? Consider beekeeping outside the box.The Thinking B...

When people speak of self-sufficiency or living off-the-grid, one often starts to think of an isolated, stone-age like lifestyle devoid of creature comforts. And while making the transition to completely self-sufficient living can seem daunting for sure, with the right plan and enough preparation it doesn't have to be as difficult as you think. You don't even have to say goodbye to things like indoor plumbing.Survive and Thrive is a thorough, step by step guide towards self-suffici...

Modern living isn't easy. It often seems to require some know-how our parents didn't pass on, or a special tool. Happily, Kaufmann Mercantile has both, and in this comprehensive field guide, they share their expertise on a huge range of topics, from frying an egg, tying a tie, or brewing coffee to things the inner utilitarian in all of us aspires to do, like splitting wood, building a fire, growing our own food, or making our own soap. Fifty how-tos are organized into five sections: Kitche...

Interested in fishes and plants? Why not start your very own Aquaponics system? It's a combination of hydroponics and aquaculture!Many people will think such a system is amazing, and it is. The fishes will pass nutrients to the plants, and the plants will create food for the fishes. The cycle goes on.You can really spend time creating Aquaponics system right from your house, and slowly improve the system by scaling it bigger. Interested?This ebook compiles tons of t...

IntroductionMy 5-year-old daughter is playing in our living room, using pieces of wood as ramps for two matchbox cars. These pieces of wood have a nice groove in the middle, making them perfect little ramps. "Mom!" she exclaims "Look! One of the cars falls off the ramp every time, but the other car stays on the whole way down." She sits for a moment, pondering the ramp and the two cars. Then she smiles and flips the cars over "I get it! This one has bigger wheels, ...

A contemporary paint-every-day watercolor guide that explores foundational strokes and patterns and then builds new skills upon the foundations over the course of 30 days to create finished pieces.This beautifully illustrated and inspiring guided watercolor-a-day book is perfect for beginning watercolor artists, artists who want to improve their watercolor skills, and visual creatives. From strokes to shapes, this book covers the basics and helps painters gain conf...

Conventional wisdom is difficult to question, even when it is misguided and contains many contradictions.Should you water in the evening? Do containers need pottery shards for drainage? Can cucumbers and tomatoes be grown together? Gardening has its share of such 'myths' – some with discernible origins in history, others that have become established for no obvious reason – and they often obscure simpler and easier methods of working.Asking why gardeners are...

Eco-friendly can be eco-nomic. This book offers suggestions that are practical AND save money. It is for people who prefer not to be told what to do but who are problem-solvers, who like efficient, economical solutions that will enhance the lives of their loved ones. It is for concerned people living in a weak economy. It is for all who simply want to do their part to maintain our earthly home.