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Microfarming for Profit: From Garden to Glory

Dave DeWitt · Torrey House Press
Format: Book

NOTE Products binding problem now fixed. This useful, entertaining guide gives prospective microfarmers the dirt on realistic essentials for turning a garden into a moneymaking enterprise?The author advises on such basics as business plans and sales techniques profiles a range of actual...
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Growing the Midwest Garden

Edward Lyon · Timber Press
Format: Hardcover

Everyone wants a glorious garden, but conditions in the Midwest can make it a challenge to grow the most popular ornamentals. Let Midwest gardening expert Ed Lyon help you with his encyclopedic knowledge of the tips, techniques, and plants specifically suited to the heartland. Learn the region's...
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The Art of Hummingbird Gardening: How to Make Your Backyard into a Beautiful Home for Hummingbirds

Mathew Tekulsky · Skyhorse Publishing
Format: Print book

This book is devoted solely to hummingbird gardening and is a practical guide to cultivating flowers and other plants that will attract the hummingbirds of North America to your home and garden. You will be able to grow flowers in profusion and provide nectar for these smallest of birds,...
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Essential Perennials for Every Garden: Selection, Care, and Profiles to over 110 Easy Care Plants

Sally Roth · I-5 Press
Pages: 224
Format: Print book

Bursting with vivid colorlike the midsummer garden of your dreamsEssential Perennials for Every Garden will inspire and inform gardeners from coast to coast. This expertly written, eye-catching guide to choosing and maintaining perennials covers a vast array of plants from dainty ground...
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Gardening With Rock & Water: A Practical Guide To Design, Plants And Features With Over 800 Step-By-Step Photographs And Inspirational Plans

Peter Robinson · Hermes House
Pages: 256
Format: Print book

Whether you want a small water fountain or a cascading rock feature, this book provides a host of inspirational ideas with step-by-step techniques.
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Abode: Thoughtful Living with Less

Serena Mitnik-Miller · Abrams
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

The yearning for a life of pared-down purity has built to a roar, and Serena Mitnik-Miller and Mason St. Peter - the husband-and-wife owners of General Store, one of California's most talked-about shops - are at the forefront. In Abode: Thoughtful Living with Less, these tastemakers...
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Linens: For Every Room and Occasion

Jane Scott Hodges · Rizzoli
Pages: 239
Format: Hardcover

This is the essential book on living and entertaining with elegant linens-for every day and special occasions. Offering both visual inspiration and practical information, Linens is the ultimate guide to living and entertaining with fine linens. Credited with reviving the art of couture...
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Skoolie!: How to Convert a School Bus or Van into a Tiny Home or Recreational Vehicle

Will Sutherland · Storey Publishing, LLC
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover

School buses that have been converted into mobile living spaces - known as skoolies - are a natural extension of the tiny house craze. Buses are not only easier and safer to drive than an RV, they provide a jump-start on the conversion process with frame, roof, and floor already in place....
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How To Build Your Own Tiny House

Roger Marshall · Taunton Press
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback

Tiny homes are all the rage these days, especially among young people new to the housing market, for people wanting a small dwelling as a second home or as a studio, and among singles and empty nesters. As millions are experiencing the "magic" of tidying up and reducing the number...

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Beautifully Small: Style Solutions for Small Spaces

Sara Emslie · Ryland Peters & Small
Format: Hardcover

In Beautifully Small, Sara Emslie embraces the positive aspects of living in small spaces and offers creative design and style solutions to the practical problems associated with limited living space. In Chapter 1 Inspiration, Sara draws inspiration from truly tiny spaces such as boats...
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