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Publisher / Publication Date: South End Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 KELSummary: Wherever you live - farm, suburb, or even city - The Homesteading Handbook will show you how to embrace a more self-sufficient lifestyle. Learn to plan, plant, and harvest your own organic garden. Enjoy fruits and vegetables year-round by canning, drying, and freezing. Build and install alternate energy devices such as solar panels or geothermal heat pumps. Who doesn't want to shrink their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 GEHSummary: "...provides tips, advice and detailed instructions on how to improve everyday life from an environmental and organic perspective while keeping the focus on the family" -- From back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Gehring, Abigail R.
Summary: Gehring’s books on country living have sold more than 500,000 copies. In this book, Gehring offers a guide to country living skills that is as charming as it is practical. Full of sweet illustrations and gorgeous photographs, step-by-step instructions for essential skills such as building a chicken coop are interspersed with country lore and old-fashioned tips and tricks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Good Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 GEHKemp, William H.
Summary: Provides background information, purchasing data, and step-by-step instructions for operating boats, RVs, or homes and creating energy for hot water and heating with renewable energy sources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aztext Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.042 KEMGehring, Abigail R. (EDT)
Summary: Explains how to live more simply and off the land through growing your own food, canning and preserving, keeping poultry, beekeeping, foraging for wild food, and building a barn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Distribution Services 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643 ULTSomerville, Madeleine.
Summary: "All You Need is Less is about realistically adopting an eco-friendly lifestyle without either losing your mind from the soul-destroying guilt of using a plastic bag because you forgot your reusable ones in the trunk of your car (again), or becoming a preachy know-it-all whom everyone loathes from the tips of her organically-shampooed hair to the toes of her naturally sourced recycled sandals....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pgw 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640.28 SOMSummary: Offers information and instructions on living a greener, more self-sufficient lifestyle, including how to build a log cabin, how to raise livestock, and how to make candles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Skyhorse Publishing 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 640 BACSalatin, Joel
Summary: The author adapts the procedures of his successful Virginia farm to the scale of small land owners and city dwellers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polyface, Inc. 2021