The Organic Backyard Vineyard: A Step-By-Step Guide to Growing Your Own Grapes

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In "The Organic Backyard Vineyard" expert Tom Powers walks the small grower through the entire process of growing grapes, with a month-by-month maintenance guide covering all regions of the U.S. and Canada. He explains everything a beginning grape grower needs to know: how to design and build a vineyard, how to select grapes for each region, how to maximize yield using organic maintenance techniques, how to build a trellis, how to harvest at peak flavor, and how to store grapes for wine-making.
Updated from his self-published version, this edition includes organic growing information and all new photography. "The Organic Backyard Vineyard" features everything a wine lover needs to build and care for a backyard vineyard.

Country Living Simple Sustainable Style: Ways to Make a House Your Home

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In his previous book, "Restore. Recycle. Repurpose.: Create a Beautiful Home", Florke discussed his decorating style with an eye toward sustainability. Here he focuses on his "three muses of design: comfort, economy, and color," as demonstrated in seven homes, from an Iowa farmhouse to a Harlem, rowhouse. Accompanied by more than 150 color photographs, Florke describes the renovation and decoration of the kitchens, living and dining rooms, bedrooms (including kids' rooms), bathrooms, and porches with decorating advice and tips on the restoration process. Safety concerns, flea market shopping advice, and exterior design suggestions are also included.
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The Backyard Parables: Lessons on Gardening, and Life

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Kirkus Reviews (11/01/2012):
Reflections on being saved, and finding happiness, through gardening. Early in the book, Roach (And I Shall Have Some Peace There, 2011, etc.) includes a quote from Bertrand Russell: "Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite." This conundrum encapsulates this third book from Roach, a longtime blogger and former editor for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. From the descriptions within, the author gardens in much the same way she writes--nothing is turned away, provided there's a suitable space for it. Roach considers the sounds of gardening, terminology, different pricings of what she grows to sell, childhood gardens, the passing of seasons--both for a garden and for a person--and the contributions of science toward the creation of a more pleasing experience of garden tending. The author is also unafraid of poking fun at herself and the many well-entrenched habits of gardening she cannot back away from--for example, having spent a lifetime gardening in long pants, she tried shorts only to relent within the half-hour, feeling that she was doing a disservice to the colors of the flowers with "the color of the canvas I provide with my tender flesh." Roach scatters gardening tips throughout the book, noting that other books provide more along those lines but that these tips are shared in the interest of spurring on readers to return to their own gardens. Many a gardener will likely find that motivation from this pleasant book. COPYRIGHT(2012) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Kathryn M. Ireland Timeless Interiors

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From a bohemian 1960s beach house in Malibu, California, to a grand nineteenth-century manor on the coast of Normandy, France, the diverse collection of Kathryn M. Ireland interiors showcased in this book move up and down the sliding scale of formality. No matter the client, the style idiom, or the degree of playful unorthodoxy, Timeless Interiors demonstrates that a Kathryn Ireland-designed space is always inviting and livable, original and appealing. 

Simply Scandinavian

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Scandinavian interior design is admired the world over for its unpretentious simplicity and understated elegance. Rooms are typically airy, light and bright. Furnishings are modern design classics from the key names of Scandinavian design usually mixed with pretty antique and vintage pieces. The beauty of natural materials, especially wood, is celebrated in the home. It's a style that's in tune with today's wish for calm, uncluttered spaces to live in. The 20 homes featured in this book are presented as case studies, with chapters including Elegant Simplicity, Pared-down Modern, Contemporary Rustic and Eclectic. Each home showcases an aspect of Scandinavian interior design and the home owners include architects, fashion and jewellery designers and antique dealers.

The Weekend Homesteader: A Twelve-Month Guide to Self-Sufficiency

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The Weekend Homesteader is organized by month--so whether it's January or June you'll find exciting, short projects that you can use to dip your toes into the vast ocean of homesteading without getting overwhelmed. If you need to fit homesteading into a few hours each weekend and would like to have fun while doing it, these projects will be right up your alley, whether you live on a forty-acre farm, a postage-stamp lawn in suburbia, or a high rise. 

Celebrate: A Year of Festivities for Families and Friends

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In her first book, Celebrate: a year of festivities for families and friends, experienced event organizer Pippa Middleton provides recipes, crafts and helpful hints with incredible flair, to create a memorable get-together for any season.