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Grandma Loves Me!
A beautiful, keepsake book full of crafts, games, recipes, and pages for grandmas and their grandkids to record their own family history and personal stories. Beautifully illustrated and chock full of everything you need to make precious memories with grandkids, this makes a perfect gift for Grandma. In these pages you’ll find classic stories and poems such as “Peter Rabbit” and “The Princess and the Pea,” tasty recipes sure to please young taste buds, and crafts that will entertain any child on a rainy day. Some favorites from the book include:Grandma’s recipes for amazing mac ‘n cheese and hot chocolate with homemade marshmallows.Fun crafts like sand jars, sock puppets, and pinecone birds.Beautifully illustrated tale of The Ugly Ducking and Little Jack Horner.The hilarious game of bobbing for apples and how to host the best tea parties.And much more! There are also record-keeping pages, a family tree to fill in with the kiddies, and activities to facilitate meaningful conversations between generations. Grandma Loves Me! is a keepsake book that will be treasured for years to come.
€ 26,50 -
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Natural Remedies
More than 100 Remedies and Recipes for Vibrant Health! Packed with step-by-step instructions to make your own herbal remedies, simple recipes for cooking with herbs and spices, and beautiful photographs, this might be the most comprehensive guide to natural remedies ever published. Here readers can learn about alternative medicine and homeopathic approaches, aromatherapy and essential oils, and much, much more. Natural Healing for Common Ailments Cooking with SuperfoodsJuices & CleansesEdible Wild Plants Planning an Herb GardenEveryday Treatments for Women & ChildrenNatural Cleansers for the HomeHomemade Non-Toxic CosmeticsRevitalizing Tinctures & ShotsAnti-Inflammatory Foods Take charge of your family's health and well-being with this comprehensive guide.
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The Organic Lunchbox
Nutritious Lunch Ideas That Are Kid-Tested and Kid-Approved.
€ 22,00 -
Back to Basics
Over 200,000 copies sold—fully updated! Dye your own wool, raise chickens, make your own cheddar cheese, build a log cabin, and much much more.Anyone who wants to learn basic living skills—the kind employed by our forefathers—and adapt them for a better life in the twenty-first century need look no further than this eminently useful, full-color guide.Countless readers have turned to Back to Basics for inspiration and instruction, escaping to an era before power saws and fast-food restaurants and rediscovering the pleasures and challenges of a healthier, greener, and more self-sufficient lifestyle.Now newly updated, the hundreds of projects, step-by-step sequences, photographs, charts, and illustrations in Back to Basics will help you dye your own wool with plant pigments, graft trees, raise chickens, craft a hutch table with hand tools, and make treats such as blueberry peach jam and cheddar cheese. The truly ambitious will find instructions on how to build a log cabin or an adobe brick homestead.More than just practical advice, this is also a book for dreamers—even if you live in a city apartment, you will find your imagination sparked, and there’s no reason why you can’t, for example, make a loom and weave a rag rug. Complete with tips for old-fashioned fun (square dancing calls, homemade toys, and kayaking tips), this may be the most thorough book on voluntary simplicity available.
€ 26,50 -
Homesteading
Whether you want to live off the grid as part of the modern back to nature movement, or simply learn new skills that will make your home more comfortable and your garden grow, this companion to the bestseller Back to Basics, is for you!Who doesn’t want to shrink their carbon footprint, save money, and eat homegrown food whenever possible? Even readers who are very much on the grid will embrace this large, fully illustrated guide on the basics of living the good, clean life. It’s written with country lovers in mind—even those who currently live in the city.Whether you live in the city, the suburbs, or in the wide-open spaces, there is plenty you can do to improve your life from a green perspective:Start container gardening. With a few plants, fresh tomato sauce is a real option with your own homegrown fresh tomatoesReduce electricity use by eating dinner by candlelight (using homemade candles, of course)Learn to use rainwater to augment water suppliesMake your own soap and hand lotionConsider keeping chickens for the eggsFrom what to eat, to supporting sustainable restaurants, to avoiding dry cleaning, this book offers information on anything a homesteader needs—and more.
€ 26,50 -
The Ultimate Guide to Old-Fashioned Country Skills
Whether you’re a suburbanite looking to live more simply or a die-hard homesteader interested in taking your garden to the next level, this guide is packed with step-by-step instructions, useful tips, vintage photographs and illustrations, and time-honored wisdom—creating one of the most comprehensive books on country skills available. This book is compiled of tested and practical experience passed down from generations of farmers and homesteaders.Here readers can learn about:Creating a vegetable gardenCanning and preservingKeeping poultrySoap makingNatural medicineBridge buildingFarm mechanicsCrop rotationCattle and dairyingThe basics of beekeepingForaging for wild foodFertilizing, soils, drainage, and irrigationBuilding a barnAnd much, much more!Success comes to the person who works the most efficiently—not simply the person who works the hardest. Learn invaluable advice and tips for how to create a sustainable lifestyle and live off the land.
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The Magic of Mini Pies
Miniature pies are everything good about baking—fun to make, delicious to eat, quick to prepare, beautiful to serve, and easily customizable! With a miniature pie maker or muffin tins, you can make each guest's favorite kind of pie in just the right proportions in no time.Perfect for parties, bed-and-breakfast hosts, or anyone who has a hankering for pie but doesn't want to spend hours in the kitchen, it's no wonder that mini pies and tarts are all the rage. From savory treats like Steak and Guinness Pies and Spinach Mushroom Quiches to sweet favorites like Pecan Cranberry Pies and Chocolate Raspberry Tarts, this book has something for every pie lover. Here’s a sampling of the more than 50 recipes included:Apple PiesChocolate Chip CheesecakesGinger Peach PiesBlackberry Malbec PiesMaple Walnut PiesCaramel Mousse TartsShepherd’s PiesSpicy Chicken and Cheese EmpanadasCornish PastiesBanana Dulce de Leche PiesBlackberry Pies with Honey Lavender CreamToffee Almond TartsStrawberry-Rhubarb PiesPlum Tarts with Citrus CreamPeanut Butter Chocolate Pies
€ 24,00 -
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Living
From growing vegetables to crafting furniture to raising goats, this lavishly illustrated volume has everything readers need to know to live off the land. Packed with step-by-step instructions, useful tips, time-honored wisdom, and both illustrations and photographs, this is a comprehensive guide to back to basics living. 912 pp. 15,000 print.
€ 28,50 -
The Homesteading Handbook
The ultimate guide to self-sufficient living for country, urban, and suburban folks.
€ 19,50 -
The Back to Basics Handbook
Rediscover the pleasures and challenges of a healthier, greener, and more self-sufficient lifestyle.
€ 24,00 -
Self-Sufficiency
Now, more than ever, people across the country are turning toward simpler, greener, and quieter ways of living—whether they’re urbanites or country folk. Following in the footsteps of Back to Basics and Homesteading, this large, fully-illustrated book provides the entire family with the information they need to make the shift toward self-sufficient living.Self-Sufficiency provides tips, advice, and detailed instructions on how to improve everyday life from an environmentally and organic perspective while keeping the focus on the family. Readers will learn how to plant a family garden and harvest the produce; can fruits and vegetables; bake bread and cookies; design interactive and engaging “green” projects; harness natural wind and solar energy to cook food and warm their homes; boil sap to make maple syrup; and build treehouses, furniture, and more. Also included are natural crafts readers can do with their kids, such as scrapbooking, making potato prints, dipping candles, and constructing seasonal decorations. Whether the goal is to live entirely off the grid or just to shrink their carbon footprints, families will find this book a thorough resource and a great inspiration.
€ 24,00 -
Homesteading
Who doesn’t want to shrink their carbon footprint, save money, and eat homegrown food whenever possible? Even readers who are very much on the grid will embrace this large, fully-illustrated guide on the basics of living the good, clean life. It’s written with country lovers in mind—even those who currently live in the city. Whether you live in the city, the suburbs, or even the wilderness, there is plenty you can do to improve your life from a green perspective. Got sunlight? Start container gardening. With a few plants, fresh tomatoes, which then become canned tomato sauce, are a real option. Reduce electricity use by eating dinner by candlelight (using homemade candles, of course). Learn to use rainwater to augment water supplies. Make your own soap and hand lotion. Consider keeping chickens for the eggs. From what to eat to supporting sustainable restaurants to avoiding dry cleaning, this book offers information on anything a homesteader needs—and more.
€ 24,00