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Saving Vegetable Seeds
Harvest, Clean, Store, and Plant Seeds from Your Garden
by Fern Marshall Bradley
Part of the Storey Basics series
Save vegetable seeds as you harvest so your favorite plants can grow again next season. In this Storey BASICS® guide, Fern Marshall Bradley covers everything you need to know to successfully save seeds from 20 popular garden vegetables, including beans, carrots, peas, peppers, and tomatoes. Learn how each plant is pollinated, where to store your collected seeds through the winter, and how to test their replanting viability in the spring. Now you can grow the delicious varieties you love year after year. Grow vegetable favorites year after year with expert tips on choosing, collecting, preparing, and starting seeds from the home garden.
Fern Marshall Bradley, author of Building Raised Beds and Saving Vegetable Seeds, is a long-time editor of books about organic gardening, organic farming, and sustainable living. Bradley lives and gardens in Cambridge, New York.
EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Become more self-sufficient by saving your own seed from one year to the next. Fern Marshall Bradley clarifies how to select the best plants, make seed saving a part of your garden plan, save both wet and dry seed, overwinter biennial crops like carrots, store seed, and test viability before planting. A crop-by-crop guide explains the details of saving the seeds of beans, carrots, corn, cucumbers, lettuce, melons and watermelons, onions and leeks, peas, peppers, radishes, squash, and tomatoes.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Saving Seeds
What Is a Seed? – Are All Seeds Worth Saving? – It's in
the Genes – Simple Seed Saving – Coaxing Seeds from
Leaf and Root Crops
Chapter 2: Seed-Saving Techniques
Growing Great Seeds – Overwintering Biennial Crops –
Harvesting Seeds – Cleaning and Drying Seeds –
Storing Seeds – Testing Seed Viability
Chapter 3: Saving Seeds, Crop by Crop
Beans – Carrots – Corn – Cucumbers – Lettuce – Melons and
Watermelons – Onions and Leeks – Peas – Peppers – Radishes –
Squash – Tomatoes
Resources
Index
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How to Make Maple Syrup
From Gathering Sap to Marketing Your Own Syrup
by Alison Anderson
Part of the Storey Basics series
Third-generation syrup makers Alison and Steven Anderson show you how to collect sap using a tree-friendly tubing system and then cook, package, and even market your own syrup. With expert advice for first-time bottlers, the Andersons share their passion with a contagious excitement that is as inspiring as a bowl of sugar on snow. From managing a sugar bush to slathering your pancakes, this Storey BASICS® guide covers everything you need to know to make and enjoy your own maple syrup.
Whether your goal is to tap a single tree in your backyard or to set up a full commercial tubing system, Alison and Steven Anderson ably guide you through the process, from collection through cooking and bottling. With a family tradition as syrup makers, the Andersons have first-hand knowledge of commercial production: cooking with evaporators, grading the syrup, building a sugarhouse, pricing, and marketing. They share all this and more in their beginner's guide to the rustic tradition of making syrup.
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Saving Container Plants
Overwintering Techniques for Keeping Tender Plants Alive Year after Year
by Brian McGowan
Part of the Storey Basics series
Enjoy your favorite container plants year after year! From geraniums to fuchsias and beyond, many container plants can be overwintered and enjoyed again the next season. Alice and Brian McGowan offer simple techniques for overwintering a variety of common tender perennial plants based on what kind of dormancy the plants go through in their native environment. With a plant-by-plant guide for quick reference, this Storey BASICS® guide will inspire you to create a stunningly varied container garden that comes to life every spring. Keep beloved plants coming back for years to come with expert methods for storing and caring for frost-intolerant greenery through the coldest months.
For 18 years, Alice and Brian McGowan owned and operated Blue Meadow Farm, a specialty nursery that was well known for its selection of unusual tender plants. Brian is now the assistant director of horticulture at Wave Hill and Alice is a freelance garden writer. The couple lives in Hyde Park, New York.
For 18 years, Alice and Brian McGowan owned and operated Blue Meadow Farm, a specialty nursery that was well known for its selection of unusual tender plants. Brian is now the assistant director of horticulture at Wave Hill and Alice is a freelance garden writer. The couple lives in Hyde Park, New York.
EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Enjoy year after year of blooming beauty from the tender perennials you grow in containers. Benefiting from the overwintering techniques explained by plant experts Alice and Brian McGowan, many of your favorite summer plants, such as dahlias, fuchsias, and geraniums, will survive winter's unfavorable conditions, and you'll save on your plant purchases the following spring. A detailed plant-by-plant guide provides easy reference to more than 100 popular container perennials.
Part 1: Gardening with Tenders
What Is a Tender Perennial?
Selecting Which Plants to Keep
Why Grow Tenders?
Part 2: Overwintering Your Plants
Overwintering 101
Sunny & Warm
Cool & Bright
Dark & Damp
The Importance of Temperature
Setting Up Your Site
Preventing Pest Problems
Specific Pests and Diseases
Spring: The Transition
Storing Plants Outdoors
Part 3: The Tender Palette
Quick Tips for Overwintering
Plant By Plant
Sources for Plants and Seeds
Index
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How to Make Frozen Yogurt
56 Delicious Flavors You Can Make at Home
by Nicole Weston
Part of the Storey Basics series
Don't forget the sprinkles as you get ready to spin out your own homemade creamy, soft-serve style frozen yogurt. In this Storey BASICS® guide, Nicole Weston shares her unique technique for making smooth and delicious frozen yogurt using a simple meringue and an ice cream maker. With recipes for 56 irresistible flavors, Weston will inspire you to go beyond vanilla and chocolate and try your hand at making tropical coconut, dulce de leche, spiced pumpkin, candy cane, and many more frozen yogurt delights.
Exactly What You Need to Know
Enjoy the tangy creaminess of frozen yogurt at home using a few simple ingredients and your ice cream maker. Nicole Weston, a successful recipe developer and food writer behind the long-standing popular blog Baking Bites, has perfected the techniques you need to know. Nicole's innovative meringue method incorporates air (important for achieving a pleasing texture) and just the right amount of sweetener (melted into the meringue) to produce frozen delights as smooth and satisfying as your favorite commercial flavors.
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How to Knit
Learn the Basic Stitches and Techniques
by Leslie Ann Bestor
Part of the Storey Basics series
Leslie Ann Bestor makes learning to knit fun and easy. Bestor's simple, fully illustrated instructions lead you through the basics of knitting, from choosing the right needles and yarn to reading a knitting pattern. You'll quickly learn techniques for expertly casting on, executing knit and purl stitches, binding off, blocking finished projects, and much more. Even if you've never held a pair of knitting needles before, this easy-to-follow guide will have you knitting in no time!
With more than 30 years of knitting experience, Leslie Ann Bestor is the expert and friend who will teach you how to knit. She leads you smoothly down the knitting path by carefully explaining the tools you need, how to cast on and bind off, how to knit and purl, how to shape using decreases and increases, and how to correct your mistakes. With these basic skills mastered and a handful of simple scarf patterns to practice on, your knitting success is assured. So pick up your needles and yarn, it's time to get started.
Chapter 1: When You're Ready to Cast On
Chapter 2: The Basic Stitches: Knit, Purl, and.... Slip
Knit Stitch Know-How - Purl Stitch Power - Slipped Stitch Savvy - Reading Your Stitches - Name That Fabric! - Changing to a New Ball of Yarn - It's Over: Binding Off - Weaving in the Ends - Blocking for the Perfect Finish
Chapter 3: Shaping Up Your Knitting: Increases & Decreases
Exploring Increases - Mastering Decreases
Chapter 4: We All Make Mistakes
Rescuing Dropped and Runaway Stitches - When Ripping Back Is the Only Option - What the Heck Is Gauge?
Chapter 5: Getting Down to the Tools and Materials
Needles Are Not All Alike - Accessories Add to the Fun - The Real Magnet of the Knitting World: Yarn
Chapter 6: Learning to Decipher Patterns
Sizes and Measurements - Data about the Yarn - Translating Knitting Shorthand - Working with Pattern Stitches - Learning to Read Knitting Charts - Staying on Track - Multiples and Total Stitch Counts - A Set of Simple "Recipes" for Scarves - Next Steps - Three Things That Make a Good Knitter
Appendix
Yardage Guidelines for Items You Might Like to Knit - Knitting Needle Sizes - Standard Yarn Weight System - Reading List - Online Resources
Acknowledgments
Index
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Herbs for Natural Beauty
Create Your Own Herbal Shampoos, Cleansers, Creams, Bath Blends, and More
by Rosemary Gladstar
Part of the Storey Basics series
Look great, smell wonderful, and feel good as you make your own homemade natural body care products. In this Storey BASICS® guide to holistic beauty, Rosemary Gladstar shares more than 30 simple recipes for cleansers, moisturizers, and creams comprised of essential oils and herbs. Make unique shampoos for lustrous, fragrant hair and learn Gladstar's amazing five-step system for glowing skin. Skip the harsh commercial ingredients and use nature's closet to keep your body healthy and beautiful. Get glowing skin and shiny, healthy hair naturally with easy-to-make herbal formulas that harness the power of herbs.
Rosemary Gladstar is the best-selling author of Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide and Rosemary Gladstar's Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health, which draw on her 40-plus years of experiences studying and teaching about the healing properties of herbs. She is a world-renowned educator, activist, and entrepreneur, and the founding director of Sage Mountain Herbal Retreat Center, the International Herb Symposium, and the New England Women's Herbal Conference. Gladstar is founding president of United Plant Savers, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation and preservation of native American herbs. She was the original formulator for Traditional Medicinal herbal teas and has led herbal educational adventures around the world. She is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon, and serves on the board of the Association for the Advancement of Restorative Medicine and The National Health Freedom Coalition. She lives in Vermont.
Preface
1 Women's Health, Women's Beauty
2 Selecting the Ingredients
3 A Cornucopia of Natural Skin Care Recipes
4 Beauty and the Bath
5 Hair Care and Coloring
Recommended Reading
Resources
Index EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Discover the intersection of beauty and health with simple, all-natural body care. Best-selling author and respected herbalist Rosemary Gladstar shares over 30 recipes using herbs, essential oils, and other common ingredients to create gentle and effective treatments for your whole body, from head to toe. With cleansers, steams, toners, creams, serums, elixirs, shampoos, henna coloring, and even a five-step skin care program, you'll have everything you need to pamper yourself and your loved ones and let your natural beauty shine.
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Herbs for Common Ailments
How to Make and Use Herbal Remedies for Home Health Care
by Rosemary Gladstar
Part of the Storey Basics series
In this Storey BASICS® guide, best-selling author and master herbalist Rosemary Gladstar shows you how to use 56 common herbs to safely address a wide range of everyday ailments. Covering everything from burns, wounds, and bruises to headaches, congestion, and insomnia, Gladstar offers dozens of easy-to-make recipes for herbal remedies that will soothe your woes without the harsh ingredients found in commercial pharmaceuticals. Keep your family happy, healthy, and safe with the natural healing power of herbs. Soothe aches, pains, ease fever, treat infections and tend to scrapes and bruises with herbal medicines easy enough to make in the home kitchen.
Rosemary Gladstar is the best-selling author of Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide and Rosemary Gladstar's Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health, which draw on her 40-plus years of experiences studying and teaching about the healing properties of herbs. She is a world-renowned educator, activist, and entrepreneur, and the founding director of Sage Mountain Herbal Retreat Center, the International Herb Symposium, and the New England Women's Herbal Conference. Gladstar is founding president of United Plant Savers, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation and preservation of native American herbs. She was the original formulator for Traditional Medicinal herbal teas and has led herbal educational adventures around the world. She is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon, and serves on the board of the Association for the Advancement of Restorative Medicine and The National Health Freedom Coalition. She lives in Vermont.
Exactly What You Need to Know
Homemade herbal recipes from renowned herbalist Rosemary Gladstar are the natural alternative to a medicine cabinet stocked with commercial pharmaceuticals. In this informative guide, Gladstar profiles more than 50 herbs that are safe and effective for treating common ailments and injuries, including headaches, colds, insomnia, burns, and cuts. Discover recipes for salves, teas, tinctures, and more, along with instructions for making an herbal first aid kit. With decades of experience, Rosemary Gladstar is the perfect mentor to help you begin exploring the wonderful world of herbal medicine. CHAPTER ONE: Understanding Herbs
CHAPTER TWO: The Art of Making Herbal Remedies
CHAPTER THREE: The Home Herbal Pantry
CHAPTER FOUR: Making Your Own First Aid Kit
CHAPTER FIVE: Simple & Effective Home Remedies
Resources
Index
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Starting Seeds
How to Grow Healthy, Productive Vegetables, Herbs, and Flowers from Seed
by Barbara W. Ellis
Part of the Storey Basics series
Get a jump on the gardening season! In this Storey BASICS® guide, Barbara Ellis provides the basic information that you need to start a variety of vegetables, herbs, and flowers from seed. Ellis shares simple, proven techniques for sowing seeds, managing indoor plants, and creating proper growing conditions so your seedlings can thrive. Packed with expert advice suitable for both beginners and experienced gardeners, Starting Seeds will inspire you to plant a seed and watch it grow. Growing a garden from seed is easy with this compact guide to plant selection, sowing techniques, and seedling care.
Barbara W. Ellis is a freelance writer, editor, and lifelong gardener. She is the author of many gardening books, including The Veggie Gardener's Answer Book, Deckscaping, Shady Retreats, and Covering Ground. She holds a B.S. in horticulture from the Ohio State University, Columbus, and a B.A. from Kenyon College. She has worked as managing editor at Rodale Press and as publications director for the American Horticultural Society and is affiliated with the Hardy Plant Society Mid-Atlantic Group, the Garden Writers Association, and the Perennial Plant Association. She lives and gardens in Maryland, where she and her husband live in a renovated "green" home with an assortment of rescued dogs, cats, and parrots. Her garden, which is managed organically and designed to be wildlife-friendly, features a wide range of ornamentals, herbs, and edibles for both sun and shade.
Exactly What You Need to Know
There are so many reasons to start your garden from seed! You'll love the exciting variety of available seeds, and you'll save money and enjoy greater control over the health of your plants. Barbara Ellis, an expert gardener and author of several books on gardening, offers practice, concise advice for sowing seeds, managing seedlings indoors and out, and developing schedules that ensure your seedlings are ready to plant when the weather is right. Starting Seeds offers everything you need to begin a thriving garden.
The Magic of Seeds
Part 1: Getting Started
What Do You Want to Grow?
Get to Know Your Garden
Seed Savvy
How Many Packets?
Germination 101
Set Up a Sowing Schedule
Seed-Grower's Problem Solver
Saving and Storing Secrets
Part 2: Starting Seeds Indoors
Gather Your Gear
Sowing Your Seed
Special-Needs Seeds
From Seeds to Seedlings
Potting On
Perennials from Seed
Moving Plants to Your Garden
Care after Planting
Part 3: Sowing Seeds Outdoors
Getting Your Garden Ready for Seeds
Spacing: Beds, Rows, or Broadcasting?
Sowing in the Flower Garden
Caring for Seeds and Seedlings
Resources and Links
Index
Starting Seeds walks you through everything you need to start in the endeavor of starting plants from seed in your front room, basement, greenhouse, cold frame, or kitchen window.
Starting Seeds is a basic guide to growing plants from seed, whether they're started indoors or out.-Portland Book Review
Starting Seeds is a basic guide to growing plants from seed, whether they're started indoors or out.-Portland Book Review
A great how-to resource for self-reliance.-Tulsa Book Review
This book, part of the Storey Basics series, contains a treasure trove of information about starting plants from seeds in a book that is small enough to fit in a pocket.
-Charlotte Observer
A fantastic resource for starting plants from seeds.
A step-by-step guide with simple but descriptive drawings, Starting Seeds should help the gardener from the moment the seed envelope is ripped open to setting out the young plants.
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Beaded Jewelry: Stringing Techniques
Skills, Tools, and Materials for Making Handcrafted Jewelry
by Carson Eddy
Part of the Storey Basics series
Create beaded necklaces, bracelets, and other jewelry with a professional look and finish. This delightful beginner's guide presents step-by-step instructions and helpful illustrations that walk you through the basics of making beaded jewelry. You'll learn how to use various pliers, crimpers, and wire cutters, and choose the perfect beads and string for your projects. In no time at all, you'll be stringing together your own pieces, complete with clasps, rings, and cones. For all levels of beaders and crafters who are interested in learning how to make jewelry by stringing beads.
EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Learn to create stunning earrings, bracelets, and necklaces by mastering a few basic techniques. Then all you need to transform a collection of beads into one-of-a-kind jewelry are stringing materials, findings, and some simple tools. Carson Eddy, Rachael Evans, and Kate Feld, longtime bead enthusiasts who design and teach at the Boston Bead Company, describe clearly, with step-by-step illustrations, how to master the methods and choose the right materials for success with any project. Introduction
Chapter One: Bead Basics
Bead Sizes - Bead Shapes - Bead Holes - Bead Materials - Glass Beads - Crystal Beads - Gemstones - Metal Beads - Natural Beads - Plastic Beads - Bead Treatments
Chapter Two: Stringing Materials
Flexible Beading Wire - Natural Stringing Materials - Man-Made Stringing Materials
Chapter Three: Findings and Clasps
Bead Tips, Crimps, and Ends - Rings and Clasps - Caps, Cones, and Spacers
Chapter Four: Beading Tools
Beading Pliers - Beading Cutters - Design and Specialty Tools
Chapter Five: Jewelry Planning
Jewelry Length - Bead Quantity - Beginning Your Project
Chapter Six: Stringing Techniques
Crimping with Flat Nose Pliers - Crimping with Crimping Pliers - Using a Tube and Bar Clasp - Using Coil Crimps - Using Fold-Over Crimps - Using Ribbon Crimps - How to Open and Close Jump Rings - How to Use Split Ring Pliers
Appendix: Mohs Scale of Hardness
Index
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Beaded Jewelry: Wirework Techniques
Skills, Tools, and Materials for Making Handcrafted Jewelry
by Carson Eddy
Part of the Storey Basics series
Show your style with handcrafted jewelry. Beaded Jewelry: Wirework Techniques has all the tips and tricks you need to make your own professional-looking jewelry using wirework techniques. Step-by-step instructions teach you how to select the best wire and tools for your project, while clear illustrations show you exactly how to bend, twist, and shape your way to beautiful loops, hoops, and head pins. You'll soon be designing and creating unique and personal earrings, bracelets, and pendants. A beginner's step-by-step guide to all the wirework techniques needed to combine wire and beads for a polished look.
Carson Eddy is the owner of The Boston Bead Company, with stores in Cambridge and Salem, Massachusetts. The Boston Bead Company offers an extensive calendar of classes and in-store demonstrations and maintains an online resource center, beadOpedia.
Co-author Rachael Evans has been a bead buyer, manager, and jewelry designer at The Boston Bead Company over the course of 12 years.
Co-author Kate Feld has worked as store manager and is currently the staff designer of The Boston Bead Company. Introduction
Chapter One: Wire Basics
Wire Types - Wire Attributes - Selecting Wire for a Project
Chapter Two: Chain Basics
Chain Materials - Chain Treatments - Chain Styles
Chapter Three: Findings Basics
Clasp Findings - Earring Findings - Other Findings
Chapter Four: Tool Basics
Pliers and Cutters - Wire Shaping Tools - Measuring, Polishing, and Storage
Chapter Five: Wirework Techniques
Simple Loop - Wire-Wrapped Loop - Wire-Wrapped Bead Cap - Wire-Wrapped Link with Beads - Wire-Wrapped Link Chain - Briolette Wrap - Covering a Briolette - Making Basic Ear Wires - Making Head Pins and Eye Pins - Making Hoop Earrings - Working with Cones - Finishing Memory Wire - How to Open and Close Jump Rings - How to Use Split Ring Pliers - How to Use Wire Cutters
Glossary
Appendix: Types of Metal
Index EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Design and create stunning handcrafted wirework jewelry using every type of wire imaginable. Carson Eddy, Rachael Evans, and Kate Feld, longtime bead professionals, introduce the many metals, gauges, shapes, and finishes available to jewelry makers and explain how to choose the best wire for your project. Step-by-step instructions and illustrations describe the techniques you need to craft unique earrings, bracelets, and necklaces - from making basic ear wires to wrapping a briolette for a pretty pendant.
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How to Make Curtains
Measuring and Making the Perfect Window Coverings for Every Room in Your Home
by Rebecca Yaker
Part of the Storey Basics series
Rebecca Yaker, co-author of the best-selling One-Yard Wonders, offers this complete introduction to making your own curtains, covering everything from measuring to calculating yardage, choosing the best fabrics, sewing your curtains, adding linings, and selecting the right fixtures and hardware for hanging. She includes step-by-step instructions for making five different curtain styles: pleats, eyelets, tab tops, tie tops, and rod pockets.
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Electric Fencing
How to Choose, Build, and Maintain the Best Fence for Your Plants and Animals
by Ann Larkin Hansen
Part of the Storey Basics series
Protect your livestock and gardens with electric fencing. In this Storey BASICS® guide, Ann Larkin Hansen describes the pros and cons of different varieties of electric fencing so that you can choose the fence that best suits your property and needs. You'll also learn how electric fencing works and how to put it together yourself. Whether you're looking for a standard design to reign in your flock or a portable version for rotational grazing, this accessible volume will help you find an efficient, cost-effective solution. Experienced farmer and author Ann Larkin Hansen offers practical advice for choosing the right fencing for your needs, planning and installing your fence, and performing ongoing testing and maintenance.
Ann Larkin Hansen is the author of The Backyard Homestead Seasonal Planner, The Organic Farming Manual, The Electric Fencing Handbook, Finding Good Farmland, and Making Hay; coauthor of A Landowner's Guide to Managing Your Woods with consulting forester Dennis Waterman and master logger Mike Severson; and coauthor with her husband, Steve, of Maintaining Small-Farm Equipment. She has been a journalist for more than 30 years, specializing in organic agriculture and sustainable forestry. A homesteader and a small-scale organic farmer, she lives with her family on a farm in northern Wisconsin.
Introduction
1 How an Electric Fence Works
2 The Fence Energizer
3 Fitting the Fence to the Animal
4 Permanent Electric Fence
5 Temporary Electric Fence
6 Planning and Building Your Fence
7 Rotational Grazing
8 Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repairs
Resources
Index
Separate wildlife from your livestock and crops with electric fencing. Cost-effective and versatile, portable electric fencing is an essential tool for successful rotational grazing, and it can be used to protect everything from seedling trees to beehives and chickens. Ann Larkin Hansen, an experienced farmer and author, offers practical advice for choosing the right fencing for your needs, planning and installing your fence, and performing ongonig testing and maintenance.
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Beaded Jewelry: Knotting Techniques
Skills, Tools, and Materials for Making Handcrafted Jewelry
by Carson Eddy
Part of the Storey Basics series
Get all knotted up! This fun guide has all the information you need to make your own jewelry using knotting techniques. You'll learn how to evaluate, select, and care for pearls and gemstones; how to select findings and tools; the pros and cons of different stringing materials; and much more. Clear step-by-step, fully illustrated instructions show you exactly how to knot between beads and attach various types of clasps and finishes. You'll soon be crafting beautiful, ready-to-wear pieces. A beginner's step-by-step guide to the knotting techniques needed to create professional-looking jewelry.
Introduction
Chapter One: Knotting Cords
Nylon and Silk - Other Types of Cord
Chapter Two: Cord Ends and Clasps
Cord Ends - Clasps and Rings
Chapter Three: Tools
Knotting Tools - Beading Tools - Work Area
Chapter Four: Knotting Techniques
Prestretching Silk Cord - Basic Knots - Cord End Techniques - Knotting Between Beads - Finishing Techniques
Chapter Five: About Pearls
Pearl Types - Pearl Quality - Care of Pearls
Index
EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Create hand-knotted jewelry that shows off the beauty of pearls and gemstones while keeping them securely in place. With guidance from longtime bead professionals Carson Eddy, Rachael Evans, and Kate Feld, you'll select the appropriate cord for each project along with the necessary clasps, rings, and tools. Easy-to-follow illustrated instructions teach the knotting techniques that transform your designs into one-of-a-kind bracelets and necklaces.
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How to Crochet
Learn the Basic Stitches and Techniques
by Sara Delaney
Part of the Storey Basics series
Get hooked on crochet and bring handcrafted charm to your home and wardrobe. Sara Delaney provides easy-to-follow illustrated instructions for joining, fastening off, selecting color schemes, and much more. Learn how to read crochet patterns and work a basic chain with single or double stitches. You'll quickly be on your way to crafting your own pretty potholders and delicate scarves. This fun introduction to crocheting presents all the basic techniques you'll need to get started.
Crocheting for the first time is fun, inspiring, and easy with Sara Delaney as your guide. An expert crochet teacher, Delaney addresses the questions every beginner asks and teaches the techniques you need to be successful. By clearly explaining how to understand the structure of stitches, make simple increases and decreases, crochet in rounds or rows, and read patterns, Delaney's instructions will give you confidence. Before you know it, you'll be transforming your practice swatches into coasters, doilies, scarves, afghans, and more.
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Finding Good Farmland
How to Evaluate and Acquire Land for Raising Crops and Animals
by Ann Larkin Hansen
Part of the Storey Basics series
Buying farmland is a major investment, so be sure you make an informed choice. This practical guide covers every factor you should consider before making a purchase, including government regulations, residential concerns from the surrounding area, soil conditions, and savvy financing. Whether you intend to grow abundant crops or graze a robust herd of livestock, Finding Good Farmland provides a roadmap to the land that's right for you. Ann Larkin Hansen shows you how to identify and refine your specific land needs using checklists and questionnaires.
Ann Larkin Hansen is the author of The Backyard Homestead Seasonal Planner, The Organic Farming Manual, The Electric Fencing Handbook, Finding Good Farmland, and Making Hay, coauthor of A Landowner's Guide to Managing Your Woods with consulting forester Dennis Waterman and master logger Mike Severson, and coauthor with her husband, Steve, of Maintaining Small-Farm Equipment. She has been a journalist for more than 30 years, specializing in organic agriculture and sustainable forestry. A homesteader and a small-scale organic farmer, she lives with her family on a farm in northern Wisconsin.
Exactly What You Need to Know
Find and purchase rural property for the perfect small-scale organic farm of your dreams. A reliable supply of clean water, good drainage, and the right soil for the farming you want to do are just a few of the things you'll need. Longtime organic farmer Ann Larkin Hansen describes how to conduct your search. She also recommends investigating what's happening in the neighborhood - now and in the future - and she offers plenty of practical advice on funding your purchase.
Introduction: Finding the farm that's right for you
1 Location: Where to look for land, and how to begin the search
2 Water: Source, quantity, reliability, ownership, and quality
3 Good Land: Soil type, fertility, aspect, slope, drainage, and field histories
4 Building and Utilities: House, outbuildings, fences, septic, electric, driveway, and a few other things
5 Neighbors and the Neighborhood: Finding out who the neighbors are and what they're doing, now and in the future, and the overall quality of life in the area
6 Government Regulations and Services: Permits and codes, land use planning and zoning, property taxes, protections and programs for farmers, roads and other government services
7 Financing a Farm: Finding a lender and convincing them to give you a loan
8 Alternative Ways to Get onto Land: Additional ways to acquire land to farm
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Recommended Reading
Index.
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Maintaining Small-Farm Equipment
How to Keep Tractors and Implements Running Well
by Steve Hansen
Part of the Storey Basics series
This Storey BASICS® title offers exactly what you need to know to keep your small farm's equipment in good working order. Long-time farmers Steve and Ann Larkin Hansen cover everything from tractors and mowers to trimmers, tillers, ATVs, plows, discs, drills, planters, cultivators, mechanical rakes, and balers, showing you how to care for your equipment to prevent problems and how to diagnose and fix the things that do go wrong. A smooth-running tractor or other basic piece of farm equipment can be the key to a successful farm, yet many newcomers enter farming with no knowledge of how an engine works, how to maintain and fix a tractor or implement so it will last a lifetime, or how to maximize operator safety. This handy, practical guide can save those farmers thousands of dollars in repairs and lost productivity. Steve Hansen is co-author with his wife, Ann Larkin Hansen, of Maintaining Small-Farm Equipment. The Hansens have run a family farm in Wisconsin for the last 20 years.
Ann Larkin Hansen is the author of The Backyard Homestead Seasonal Planner, The Organic Farming Manual, The Electric Fencing Handbook, Finding Good Farmland, and Making Hay; coauthor of A Landowner's Guide to Managing Your Woods with consulting forester Dennis Waterman and master logger Mike Severson; and coauthor with her husband, Steve, of Maintaining Small-Farm Equipment. She has been a journalist for more than 30 years, specializing in organic agriculture and sustainable forestry. A homesteader and a small-scale organic farmer, she lives with her family on a farm in northern Wisconsin.
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How to Mulch
Save Water, Feed the Soil, and Suppress Weeds
by Stu Campbell
Part of the Storey Basics series
Mulch your way to a vibrant and healthy home landscape. Profiling a variety of techniques that include sheet mulches, feeding mulches, and living mulches, Stu Campbell and Jennifer Kujawski help you choose the best mulching strategy for your backyard, vegetable garden, or flower bed. You'll be amazed at how properly mulching can both beautify your outdoor space and ease your gardening life by retaining moisture, keeping weeds in check, protecting young plants, and boosting production. Nurture plants and beautify backyards and gardens with this informative introduction to choosing and using all types of mulch, from organic to synthetic. The late Stu Campbell lived and gardened in Stowe, Vermont. He was the author of Let It Rot!, a guide to home composting with over 340,000 copies in print; Mulch It!; and The Home Water Supply.
Jennifer Kujawski grew up helping in the family garden. She has many memories of the experience, both fond (eating peas straight from the pods) and not-so-fond (squashing potato beetles between rocks). Jennifer earned degrees in botany and horticulture and worked as the assistant manager of USDA's National Plant Materials Center in Beltsville, Maryland. She has written articles for numerous publications, including American Nurseryman and Native Plants Journal and was one of the authors of the Community Forest Buffer Guide (Chesapeake Bay Foundation, 2001). Jennifer currently works as a freelance writer and editor for such organizations as University of Massachusetts Extension, USDA's Forest Service, and Massachusetts Nursery and Landscape Association. She is passing along the family gardening tradition to her young son in the 2,000 square foot vegetable garden she tends with her father. EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Mulch, the common ingredient in the best gardens, protects your soil, minimizes weeds, contributes to overall plant health, and reduces the need to water. Here you'll find all your mulching questions covered, with information on everything from sheet mulching to working with living mulches, plus advice on mulching for specific vegetables to help you make the best choices for your favorite plants. Your most fruitful garden will from properly mulched soil. Part One: The Whys and Whats of Mulching
The Benefits of Mulching
Some Drawbacks to Mulching
A Few Definitions
Part Two: Types of Mulch
Bark and Wood Products
Other Plant Products
Paper Mulches
Inorganic Mulches
How to Choose a Mulch
Part Three: Here's How to Mulch
Mulching 101
Mulching Ornamentals
Mulching Vegetables
Mulching Perennial Fruits
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How to Prune Trees & Shrubs
Easy Techniques for Timely Trimming. A Storey BASICS® Title
by Barbara W. Ellis
Part of the Storey Basics series
Help your trees, shrubs, and vines look and yield their best by making the right cut every time. Whether you are hoping for more flowers or fruit, trying to create a dense screen, or struggling to manage out-of-control growth, there is a pruning technique to achieve your goals. Expert gardener Barbara Ellis explains how a plant responds to pruning, how and when to use basic cuts, and what tools to use. Her plant-by-plant guide will give you the confidence you need to make that first cut. This Storey BASICS title details the key steps to successfully pruning all the most common woody plants in the home landscape with an easy system that assumes no prior knowledge of plants or gardening. Barbara W. Ellis is a freelance writer, editor, and lifelong gardener. She is the author of many gardening books, including The Veggie Gardener's Answer Book, Deckscaping, Shady Retreats, and Covering Ground. She holds a B.S. in horticulture from the Ohio State University, Columbus, and a B.A. from Kenyon College. She has worked as managing editor at Rodale Press and as publications director for the American Horticultural Society and is affiliated with the Hardy Plant Society Mid-Atlantic Group, the Garden Writers Association, and the Perennial Plant Association. She lives and gardens in Maryland, where she and her husband live in a renovated "green" home with an assortment of rescued dogs, cats, and parrots. Her garden, which is managed organically and designed to be wildlife-friendly, features a wide range of ornamentals, herbs, and edibles for both sun and shade. Introduction
Part One: Pruning Techniques and Tools
Pruning and Plant Growth - Pruning Cuts - Prune with a Purpose - Jobs for Professionals - Pruning and Size Control - Tools of the Trade
Part Two: Pruning Plant by Plant
Pruning Trees - Pruning Fruit Trees - Pruning Shrubs - Pruning Roses - Pruning Vines
Glossary
Suggested Reading
Metric Conversion Formulas
Index Make the Right Cut Every Time
Help your trees, shrubs, and vines look and yield their best. Whether you are hoping for more flowers or fruit, trying to create a dense screen, or struggling to manage out-of-control growth, there is a pruning technique to achieve your goals. Expert gardener Barbara Ellis explains how a plant responds to pruning, how and when to use basic cuts, and what tools to use. Her plant-by-plant guide will give you the confidence you need to make that first cut.
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Making & Using Vinegar
Recipes That Celebrate Vinegar's Versatility. A Storey BASICS® Title
by Bill Collins
Part of the Storey Basics series
Brighten your meals with the tasty tang of homemade vinegar. Chef Bill Collins shows you how to make your own vinegars, including wine, apple cider, malt, white, and rice vinegars, and then flavor them with herbs for exactly the taste you want. You'll also learn how to use your custom-made vinegars in everything from a basic Italian salad dressing to Asian coleslaw, sweet potato salad, caponata, sauerbraten, caprese sliders, pickles, chutneys, and even chocolate chip cookies. With over 30 recipes, this handy guide illustrates how to make and use different vinegars.
Bill Collins is the author of Making & Using Caramel, How to Make Chocolate Candies, Knife Skills, and Making & Using Vinegar. A graduate of the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, he cooked at the old Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boston and directed new product development at Harbor Sweets (Salem, Massachusetts) prior to establishing Chef Bill, Inc., in 2001. He has been a professional chef, a personal chef, a food industry consultant, and a cooking instructor, giving classes everywhere from community colleges to Whole Foods to Stonewall Kitchen. As Chef Bill, he has written newspaper columns on kitchen skills. He lives in Pelham, Massachusetts. Exactly What You Need To Know
Vinegar is the secret ingredient that adds bright flavor and sparkle to countless dishes. Personal chef and cooking instructor Bill Collins offers step-by-step instructions for making your own vinegars and developing flavor infusions for purchased or homemade vinegars. Enjoy your creations in refreshing shrubs (a vinegar soft drink) and more than 30 delicious recipes. You'll also find information on pickling and a section on the many household uses for distilled white vinegar. Part One: Introduction to Vinegar
What is Vinegar?
The Essential Kitchen Vinegars
Noncooking Uses for Vinegars
Part Two: Homemade Vinegar and Beyond
Making Your Own Vinegar - Making Vinegar Infusions -
Infused Vinegar Recipes - Shrubs - Pickling
Part Three: Cooking With Vinegar
Vinaigrettes, Dressings, and Sauces - Chutneys -
Chilled Salads and Slaws - Appetizers and Soups -
Side Dishes and Main Courses - Desserts
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Metric Conversion Chart
Index
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Herbs for Stress & Anxiety
How to Make and Use Herbal Remedies to Strengthen the Nervous System
by Rosemary Gladstar
Part of the Storey Basics series
Treat stress, anxiety, depression, and more with simple herbal remedies that calm your mind, build a healthy nervous system, and promote lasting peace. In this informative guide, renowned herbalist Rosemary Gladstar profiles 21 herbs proven to be effective at soothing common ailments like insomnia, panic attacks, skin conditions, and migraines. With simple directions for making herbal mixtures that can be used in delicious teas, tinctures, and capsules, Gladstar shows you how to harness the power of nature to achieve a more relaxed and fulfilling life. Relieve physical and mental symptoms of overwhelm with herbal therapies designed to soothe agitated nerves and build a resilient nervous system.
Rosemary Gladstar is the best-selling author of Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide and Rosemary Gladstar's Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health, which draw on her 40-plus years of experiences studying and teaching about the healing properties of herbs. She is a world-renowned educator, activist, and entrepreneur, and the founding director of Sage Mountain Herbal Retreat Center, the International Herb Symposium, and the New England Women's Herbal Conference. Gladstar is founding president of United Plant Savers, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation and preservation of native American herbs. She was the original formulator for Traditional Medicinal herbal teas and has led herbal educational adventures around the world. She is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon, and serves on the board of the Association for the Advancement of Restorative Medicine and The National Health Freedom Coalition. She lives in Vermont.
Exactly What You Need To Know
Treat stress, anxiety, depression, and more with simple herbal remedies that strengthen and build a healthy nervous system. Best-selling author and respected herbalist Rosemary Gladstar profiles 21 herbs proven to be effective at soothing common stress symptoms such as panic attacks, depression, headaches, migraines, herpes, and insomnia. Enjoy the herbs in tea decoctions and infusions, take them as capsules or tinctures, and relax in warm baths enhanced by their calming scents.
Introduction
Chapter One: Understanding the Nervous System
Chapter Two: Natural Remedies for Stress and Anxiety
Chapter Three: Strengthening the Nervous System
Chapter Four: The Herbal Home Medicine Chest
Chapter Five: Making and Using Herbal Remedies
Recommended Reading
Resources
Index
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How to Make Chocolate Candies
Dipped, Rolled, and Filled Chocolates, Barks, Fruits, Fudge, and More. A Storey BASICS® Title
by Bill Collins
Part of the Storey Basics series
Whether you like your chocolate gooey and rich, creamy and smooth, or nutty and dark, this Storey BASICS® guide shows you how to make your favorite sweet treats right at home. Bill Collins provides illustrated step-by-step instructions for a variety of chocolate-making techniques, including tempering, thickening, sugar boiling, mold filling, piping, and more. You'll soon be showcasing your confectioner's skills in decadent chocolate-dipped fruits, indulgent nut barks, and fudges that melt in your mouth. From truffles to bark and more, delicious chocolate candies are easy and fun to make at home with the simple techniques in this handy guide.
Bill Collins is the author of Making & Using Caramel, How to Make Chocolate Candies, Knife Skills, and Making & Using Vinegar. A graduate of the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, he cooked at the old Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boston and directed new product development at Harbor Sweets (Salem, Massachusetts) prior to establishing Chef Bill, Inc., in 2001. He has been a professional chef, a personal chef, a food industry consultant, and a cooking instructor, giving classes everywhere from community colleges to Whole Foods to Stonewall Kitchen. As Chef Bill, he has written newspaper columns on kitchen skills. He lives in Pelham, Massachusetts. EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Making chocolate candies at home is fun and easy after you've mastered a few simple techniques. Personal chef and cooking instructor Bill Collins reveals the secrets to mouthwatering chocolate treats as he describes techniques for tempering chocolate, working with thickeners, boiling sugar, using piping bags, and shaping and filling molded chocolates. In no time, you'll be turning out chocolate-dipped fruit, creamy fudge, densely satisfying
barks, and filled truffles that look like they were made in a high-end candy shop! Chapter One: Introduction to Chocolate
Types of Chocolate * What Is Good Chocolate?
Chapter Two: Chocolate Candy-Making Basics
Tempering FAQs * What Do You Need, Besides Chocolate? * Storing Chocolate
Chapter Three: Fudge and Bark
Fudge Recipes * Bark Recipes
Chapter Four: Molded Chocolates
Choosing Your Molds * Basic Steps for Molding Chocolate * Molded Chocolate Recipes
Chapter Five: Truffles
Rolled Truffle Recipes * Dipped Truffle Recipes * Molded Truffle Recipes
Chapter Six: Dipped Chocolate Candies
Chocolate-Covered Candies
Metric Conversion Chart
Acknowledgments
Resources
Index
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How to Make Ice Cream
51 Recipes for Classic and Contemporary Flavors
by Nicole Weston
Part of the Storey Basics series
Churn out delicious ice cream right in your own kitchen. In this Storey BASICS® guide, Nicole Weston breaks down the process into reproducible steps that are easy to follow. More than 50 recipes for flavors both classic and daringly original - from chocolate and coffee to goat cheese and honey, maple bacon, and fresh ginger - will let you find an ice cream everyone will like. Make it a double scoop, and don't forget the toppings! Churn a fresh, sweet batch of ice cream any time you like with How to Make Ice Cream from Storey BASICS®. With more than 50 recipes for flavors both classic and daringly original, there's a recipe for every occasion.
On a hot summer day, very few things taste as good as a bowl full of ice cream. Ice cream is a treat that appeals to people of all ages, from kids waiting in line for a cone at an ice cream truck after school to adults indulging in a scoop of some specialty flavor as a component of a plated dessert at a fine dining restaurant. It is unique because it is rich and indulgent, yet it often reminds us of our childhoods. It can serve as dessert in its own right, and it can accompany other desserts as a side. And because of its ubiquitousness in grocery store freezer cases, we sometimes forget just how special ice cream really is.
Homemade ice cream is even more special than anything that an ice cream truck, a restaurant, or a grocery store can deliver. You can not only customize the flavors and ingredients to create your favorite flavors, but you'll probably also be surprised by just how easy it is to make it yourself. Homemade ice cream can rival premium store-bought ice creams and can easily eclipse the less expensive brands with superior flavors and a richer texture. The only downside to starting to make your own ice creams at home is that you may find it difficult to go back to store-bought - unless you're simply searching the grocery store aisle for inspiration for your own flavor creations.
What is Ice Cream?
At its most basic, ice cream is a mixture of frozen cream and a sweetener, paired with a flavoring agent of some kind, such as vanilla, fruit, or chocolate. There are two main styles of ice cream. French-style ice cream starts with a cooked custard base made with milk, cream, sugar, and either eggs or egg yolks. This ice cream base is very thick, with an almost pudding-like consistency before it is churned. It produces a very rich ice cream with a velvety smooth texture and a slightly eggy flavor. American-style ice cream, also known as Philadelphia-style ice cream, typically has a lighter and more fluid consistency than that of French-style ice creams. It is made with milk, cream, sugar, and flavorings, but it does not contain eggs. It has a more pronounced dairy taste that is a good base for other flavors to be added.
Neither of these two styles of ice cream is better than the other. It all comes down to personal preference when you are making your recipes. Some people prefer the richer, eggier French-style ice cream, and others prefer the lighter and simpler taste of the American-style ice cream. And plenty of ice cream fans like both styles equally well. I like the consistency of both types of ice cream and find that some flavors work better with one base than the other. Fruit ice creams, for instance, have a brighter flavor when they are made with an American-style base because the added richness of the eggs in the Frenchstyle ice cream can mute the flavor of the fruit. Chocolate ice creams, however, can feel even more decadent and mousse-like on
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How to Make Slipcovers
Designing, Measuring, and Sewing Perfect-Fit Slipcovers for Chairs, Sofas, and Ottomans. A Storey BA
by Patricia Hoskins
Part of the Storey Basics series
Give your favorite furniture a new look! Patricia Hoskins, co-author of the best-selling One-Yard Wonders, offers simple, step-by-step, illustrated instructions for making your own slipcovers for dining chairs, easy chairs, ottomans, and sofas with either loose back pillows or fixed cushions. She explains exactly how to complete every step of the process, from choosing the best fabrics to calculating yardage, sewing curved seams, creating mitered corners, applying trims, and finishing with zippers, envelope backs, or ties.
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Growing Christmas Trees
Select the Right Species, Raise the Best Trees, Market for the Holidays. A Storey BASICS® Title
by Patrick White
Part of the Storey Basics series
Growing beautiful Christmas trees is a great way to generate off-season farm income and make better use of your land. From selecting a site and planting the right species to marketing and selling trees, this Storey BASICS® guide shows you how to build and maintain your own small tree nursery. Including handy tips for making handcrafted kissing balls and holiday wreaths, “Growing Christmas Trees” covers everything you need to know to successfully cultivate stunning evergreens that will provide income and bring holiday cheer. A handy primer for growers raising Christmas trees for profit, this guide covers everything from choosing the best pine, fir, and spruce to planting, growing, shearing, pruning, harvesting, and selling.
Grow beautiful Christmas trees sustainably on your small farm or in your backyard. As income supplement or outdoor hobby, the tradition of Christmas tree farming is both satisfying and practical and can make good use of fallow land. Grower Patrick White has built on and updated these techniques, pioneered by nurseryman and author Lewis Hill, to guide the modern grower every step of the way, from site selection to planting tips to sales strategies.
Introduction: A Time-Honored Tradition
Chapter One: Getting Started
Chapter Two: Enter the Trees
Chapter Three: Planting and Growing
Chapter Four: Shearing and Pruning
Chapter Five: When Things Go Wrong
Chapter Six: Sales Strategies
Chapter Seven: Time to Harvest
Chapter Eight: Wreaths and Greens
Conclusion
Caring for a Real Christmas Tree
A Christmas Tree Grower's Calendar
Glossary
Index
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Herbs for Children's Health
How to Make and Use Gentle Herbal Remedies for Soothing Common Ailments
by Rosemary Gladstar
Part of the Storey Basics series
Herbal remedies can provide safe and effective treatment for common childhood ailments ranging from diaper rash and teething to sore throats and conjunctivitis. In this “Storey BASICS® Guide”, Rosemary Gladstar shows you how to prepare soothing salves, syrups, tablets, and teas that support children's health. With simple instructions, clear dosage guidelines, and in-depth profiles of 24 medicinal herbs, you'll soon be confidently easing your child's achy flu with some hibiscus tea and using the healing properties of nettles to combat bouts of hay fever. This essential guide to treating children's everyday aches, pains, minor infections, and illnesses naturally offers easy-to-make, time-tested recipes from trusted herbalist Rosemary Gladstar.
EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
When it comes to soothing a sick or hurt child, only the gentlest, time-tested remedies will do. Best-selling author and respected herbalist Rosemary Gladstar is the perfect guide. Her recipes - safe, effective, and without side effects - can be used for all the most common ailments that affect children: teething, colic, cradle cap, diaper rash, earaches, fevers, colds, burns, cuts, and more. They also take many forms that will appeal to children, from herbal popsicles and "candy" balls to teas, syrups, and calming baths. Preface
Chapter One: Herbal Medicine for Children
Chapter Two: The Best Herbs for Children
Chapter Three: Treating Common Childhood Ailments
Chapter Four: How to Make Herbal Remedies
Recommended Reading
Resources
Index
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Managing Manure
How to Store, Compost, and Use Organic Livestock Wastes
by Mark Kopecky
Part of the Storey Basics series
Anyone who raises livestock or keeps horses must deal with manure. This Storey BASICS® guide shows you how to make this process manageable, useful, and even profitable. Organic dairy farmer and soil scientist Mark Kopecky explains the fundamentals of storing, composting, and spreading manure; the nutritional content of manure from various animals; and how to handle, transport, and market manure for additional income. You'll soon discover that your farm's waste may be its biggest asset. This guide delivers essential information on using animal waste to improve soil health, prevent nutrient loss, and improve crop quality and yield safely and sustainably.
Mark Kopecky is an organic dairy farmer as well as a soil scientist who has worked for 22 years in the University of Wisconsin Extension system.
Exactly What You Need To Know
Close the nutrient cycle in your small farm or garden by using manure to replenish the soil. Mark Kopecky, an organic dairy farmer and soil scientist, guides you through the safe and effective storage, composting, and spreading of manure-- an age-old solution to the modern problems of waste disposal and chemical fertilizers. Your "brown gold" is about to become your land's greatest asset. Introduction: Brown Gold
Chapter One: Characteristics of Manure
Chapter Two: Storing and Handling Manure
Chapter Three: Spreading the Wealth
Chapter Four: Rules, Regulations, and Marketing
Glossary
Acknowledgements
Resources
Index
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Building Raised Beds
Easy, Accessible Garden Space for Vegetables and Flowers
by Fern Marshall Bradley
Part of the Storey Basics series
For beginning gardeners and homeowners, this handbook shows you exactly how to plan, build, and plant a simple raised bed. Fully illustrated step-by-step instructions make it easy and ensure success! In just a weekend, using a few basic materials and minimal building skills, you can set up a complete garden bed adapted for vegetables, flowers, or herbs.
A Storey BASICS title addresses the popular topic of raised-bed gardening with this introduction to simple raised beds that any homeowner or beginning gardener can plan, build, and plant in a weekend with basic materials and little knowledge or skill.
Fern Marshall Bradley, author of Building Raised Beds and Saving Vegetable Seeds, is a long-time editor of books about organic gardening, organic farming, and sustainable living. Bradley lives and gardens in Cambridge, New York. Build the Perfect Home for Your Plants
Frame your garden's beauty and bounty with raised beds that are manageably sized, easy to expand, and full of loose, rich soil for your flowers, herbs, and vegetables. Whether you make your beds with boards, logs, cinderblocks, or just piled-up soil, expert gardener Fern Marshall Bradley will lead you through the process. You'll learn the best ways to site, build, plant, and care for your beds; how to build a trellis; and even how to give your beds an artistic touch.
Introduction: The Built-In Benefits of Raised Beds
Sized Right for Success – Perfectly Designed for Super Soil – Ready to Plant Right from the Start – Easy to Expand
Chapter One: Getting Started
Investigating Sunlight and Soil – Dig Down or Build Up? – Dimensions and Layout
Chapter Two: Building Your Beds
Digging Down – Building Up – How to Build a Wood-Framed Raised Bed – How to Build a Frame on a Slope – Soil Amendments – Pathways
Chapter Three: Planting and Tending
Planting How-To – Watering – Mulching and Feeding – Dealing with Weeds, Pests, and Diseases
Chapter Four: Accessorizing Your Bed
Setting Up a Support System – Installing a Watering System – Sending Your Garden into Space – How to Build a Sturdy Vertical Trellis – Adding Artistic Touches
Resources
Metric Conversion Chart
Index
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Knife Skills
An Illustrated Kitchen Guide to Using the Right Knife the Right Way. A Storey BASICS® Title
by Bill Collins
Part of the Storey Basics series
Good knife skills are key to feeling confident and comfortable in the kitchen. Chef Bill Collins teaches you how to wield cooking knives properly, so you can slice, peel, bone, and dice with ease. Illustrated step-by-step instructions show you how to cut and carve seafood, poultry, meats, and produce of all kinds. In addition to profiling the best uses for a variety of knife types, Collins includes tips for using other sharp kitchen tools like graters, vegetable peelers, and mandolins. Get ready to chop away! A compact guide to the different types of kitchen knives and how to use and care for each one safely and effectively.
Bill Collins is the author of Making & Using Caramel, How to Make Chocolate Candies, Knife Skills, and Making & Using Vinegar. A graduate of the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, he cooked at the old Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boston and directed new product development at Harbor Sweets (Salem, Massachusetts) prior to establishing Chef Bill, Inc., in 2001. He has been a professional chef, a personal chef, a food industry consultant, and a cooking instructor, giving classes everywhere from community colleges to Whole Foods to Stonewall Kitchen. As Chef Bill, he has written newspaper columns on kitchen skills. He lives in Pelham, Massachusetts. EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Good knife skills make working in a kitchen a pleasure. Personal chef and cooking instructor Bill Collins describes the knives you need (plus a few that are just fun to have) and how to shop and care for them. Every knife has its purpose, and Chef Bill explains how to use each one safely and effectively, from hulling strawberries with a paring knife to smoothly slicing scallions with a chef's knife. Recipes designated to help you practice various knife skills give you the opportunity to perfect every technique. Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: How to Choose and Use Your Knives
• Chef's Knife
• Paring Knife
• Utility Knife
• Offset Handle Serrated Deli Knife
• Bench Scraper
• Optional KnivesChapter Two: How to Buy a Knife
• Comfort and Balance
• Where to Buy
• Knife QualityChapter Three: Caring for Your Knives
• Washing and Storing
• Sharpening
• Why Cutting Boards MatterChapter Four: Nonknife, Nonmotorized Sharp Kitchen Tools
Chapter Five: Recipes and Techniques
• Carving a Turkey
• Other Poultry, Meat, and Fish
• Fruits and Vegetables
• Baked GoodsMetric Conversion Chart
Resources
Acknowledgments
Index
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Growing Healthy Houseplants
Choose the Right Plant, Water Wisely, and Control Pests. A Storey BASICS® Title
by Ellen Zachos
Part of the Storey Basics series
This concise Storey BASICS® guide teaches novice gardeners how to successfully keep indoor plants beautiful and healthy. Learn how to choose the best plants for your home and what each species needs in terms of location, water, sunlight, and fertilizer. Covering the basics of repotting, pruning, and dealing with pests, Ellen Zachos shows you how to keep your houseplants looking vibrant for years to come. Soon, you'll be watching over a collection of thriving plants that add a lively dose of color to your home. Keeping houseplants is easy with this fool-proof guide to selecting and caring for the right plants for any room and every growing condition.
Ellen Zachos is an expert forager and longtime foraging instructor. She is the author of six books, including The Wildcrafted Cocktail and Backyard Foraging. She is co-host of the Plantrama podcast and can be found online at backyardforager.com. EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Discover the key to maintaining beautiful, vibrant houseplants throughout your home. Thriving plants improve the air, reflect your decorating style, and lift your mood. Even if you're a novice with houseplants, Ellen Zachos's friendly guidance will make you a confident grower in no time. It's as simple as evaluating your light and choosing plants that work with it, watering correctly, and then enjoying the plants you nurture. Complete care instructions include survey of useful tools, advice for combating pests and disease, information on repotting and propagating, and profiles of 31 plants. Preface
Introduction: Learn to Speak Plant
Part One: Essentials
• Light: How Much is Enough?
• Water and Humidity: Getting It Right
• The Growing Medium
• Fertilization: More Isn't Always BetterPart Two: Daily Care
• Cool Tools You'll Need
• Repotting: It Has to Happen Sometime
• Good Grooming
• Propagation: Making More Plants
• Vacation for You, Vacation for Your Plants
• Managing Pests
• Diseases
Part Three: Designing the Indoor Garden
• It's All in the Display
• Foilage
• Flowering Plants
• Trees
• Cacti
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Herbs for Long-Lasting Health
How to Make and Use Herbal Remedies for Lifelong Vitality
by Rosemary Gladstar
Part of the Storey Basics series
Rosemary Gladstar shows you how to enhance your well-being in middle age and beyond using herbal remedies that effectively and safely promote vitality. With in-depth profiles of 22 medicinal herbs, preparation instructions, and dosage guidelines, you'll discover how you can use astragalus to regenerate your body's immune system, bilberry to ease eye problems, and milk thistle to rebuild damaged liver cells. You'll be amazed at how herbal treatments can help support your nervous system, activate your metabolism, and keep your bones and joints healthy. Feel youthful naturally with herbal treatments that build energy reserves, protect against free radicals, and enhance overall health of body and mind.
Rosemary Gladstar is the best-selling author of Rosemary Gladstar's Medicinal Herbs: A Beginner's Guide and Rosemary Gladstar's Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health, which draw on her 40-plus years of experiences studying and teaching about the healing properties of herbs. She is a world-renowned educator, activist, and entrepreneur, and the founding director of Sage Mountain Herbal Retreat Center, the International Herb Symposium, and the New England Women's Herbal Conference. Gladstar is founding president of United Plant Savers, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation and preservation of native American herbs. She was the original formulator for Traditional Medicinal herbal teas and has led herbal educational adventures around the world. She is the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon, and serves on the board of the Association for the Advancement of Restorative Medicine and The National Health Freedom Coalition. She lives in Vermont.
EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Enhance your well-being with 22 herbs that promote vitality, longevity, and general well-being. Best-selling author and respected herbalist Rosemary Gladstar describes the benefits of each herb and its contributions to supporting a healthy lifestyle. In addition to general preparation tips for the herbs, you'll find 15 recipes for tinctures, teas, tonics, and more, including Longevity Tonic, 7-Herb Long-Life Soup, and Brain Tonic Tincture.
CHAPTER ONE: Perspectives on Aging
CHAPTER TWO: The Herbal Home Medicine Chest
CHAPTER THREE: How to Create Long-Lasting Good Health
CHAPTER FOUR: Recipes for Longevity and Well-Being
Recommended Reading
Resources
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Making Vegan Frozen Treats
50 Recipes for Nondairy Ice Creams, Sorbets, Granitas, and Other Delicious Desserts. A Storey BASICS
by Nicole Weston
Part of the Storey Basics series
Enjoy all of your favorite ice creams - without the dairy! In this Storey BASICS® guide, Nicole Weston shows you how to make vegan "ice creams" right at home, with soy, almond, or coconut milk. Fill your bowl with classics like vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry, or get creative with flavors like chai tea, peanut butter and banana, and coconut-raspberry-lime. Weston also includes recipes for vegan sorbets, granitas, pops, and even vegan cookies for making dairy-free ice cream sandwiches. Start making delicious, dairy-free vegan frozen desserts from ice cream to popsicles with this accessible book of recipes.
Nicole Weston, a Los Angeles—based pastry chef, chocolatier, food writer, and recipe developer, is the author of Perfectly Creamy Frozen Yogurt, How to Make Ice Cream, and Making Vegan Frozen Treats. Her blog, Baking Bites, was named one of the 50 best food blogs in the world by the London Times and has been featured in many other publications. EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Make creamy, rich desserts with your favorite vegan milks. Nicole Weston, a successful recipe developer and the food writer behind the popular blog Baking Bites, offers luscious recipes for velvety frozen desserts made with soy, almond or coconut milk. Imagine churning Coconut Mango Rice, Mocha Almond Fudge, and Vanilla Bean ice creams with no dairy! Fruity sorbets and granitas, inventive popsicles, and vegan-cookie ice cream sandwiches round out this delicious collection of dairy-free options. VEGAN FROZEN TREAT RECIPES
PART ONE: Introduction to Frozen Vegan Desserts
Nondairy Ice Cream
Fruit -Based Frozen Treats
Choosing an Ice Cream Maker
Churning, Storing, and Scooping Homemade Ice Cream
Working without an Ice Cream Maker
PART TWO: The Recipes
Soy Milk Ice Creams
Almond Milk Ice Creams
Coconut Milk Ice Creams
Sorbets and Granitas
Popsicles
Ice Cream Sandwiches and Other Frozen Treats
Sauces and Toppings
Metric Conversion Chart.
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Growing Vegetables in Straw Bales
Easy Planting, Less Weeding, Early Harvests
by Craig LeHoullier
Part of the Storey Basics series
Straw bale gardening is an inexpensive, low-maintenance way to grow a bounty of food in a small space. All you need is a bale of straw, some fertilizer, and your favorite vegetable seeds! Craig LeHoullier's step-by-step instructions show you how to do everything from sourcing the straw and setting up your bale to planting, dealing with weeds and pests, and harvesting. All that's required is a bale of straw, some fertilizer, and some vegetable seeds to take advantage of this innovative low-cost, low-maintenance way to grow a bounty of food in a small space while simultaneously improving the soil.
Craig LeHoullier is the author of Growing Vegetables in Straw Bales and Epic Tomatoes and the tomato adviser for Seed Savers Exchange. In the last 30 years, he has trialed more than 1,200 tomato varieties and has introduced more than 100 varieties to the trade. He lectures widely, from local Master Gardener groups to Monticello, the Philadelphia and Northwest Flower Shows, and Seed Savers Exchange. Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Getting Started
Chapter Two: Gathering Your Materials
Chapter Three: Planning for Success
Chapter Four: Caring for Your Bale Garden
Chapter Six: What to Grow and How to Grow It
Chapter Seven: Problem Solving
Chapter Eight: What Remains
References
Metric Conversion Charts
Index The Easiest Garden Ever!
Straw bales make perfect beds for your plants – they are inexpensive, provide an ideal growing medium for roots, have few weeds, and are easy to maintain. Gardening expert Craig LeHoullier walks you through the process of selecting straw bales and fertilizer, preparing bales for planting, choosing the best vegetables to grow, and caring for your straw bale garden. The warm beds produce earlier harvests, and after the season is over, you can use the broken-down straw for mulching or adding structure to soil.
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How to Spin
From Choosing a Spinning Wheel to Making Yarn
by Beth Smith
Part of the Storey Basics series
Expert Beth Smith teaches you everything you need to know to spin your own yarn, from choosing a spinning wheel to every stage of preparing your fiber, plying, winding off, and finishing. Fully illustrated step-by-step instructions make it simple and easy! A Storey BASICS title for complete beginners, starting with how to choose a spinning wheel and guiding readers all the way to making yarn.
Introduction
Take the Spinning Plunge
Chapter One: Spinning in a Nutshell
Typing on a Leader - Treadling - Drafting
Chapter Two: Wheels and How They Work
Spinning Wheel Parts - Types of Wheels - Drive Systems - Tension and Tension Adjustments - Spinning Wheel Maintenance
Chapter Three: Fiber Preparations
Carded Preparations - Combed Preparations - Short Fiber Preparations
Chapter Four: Drafting Methods
Woolen Versus Worsted - Short Forward Draw - Short Backward Draw - Supported Long Draw - Long Draw - Spinning from the Fold
Chapter Five: Perfecting Your Skills
Joining New Fiber - A Matter of Twist - Tricks for Improving Consistency
Chapter Six: Plying
Lazy Kates - Choosing the Right Whorl for Plying - Choosing the Number of Plies - Rewinding Bobbins - Holding Singles for Plying - Plying from a Single Bobbin - Plying from Both Ends of the Same Strand - A Matter of Balance - Winding Off - Measuring the Length of a Skein
Chapter Seven: The End Is in Sight
Finishing Techniques - Drying Your Finished Yarn - The Importance of Samples
Glossary of Spinning Terms
Index Learn to Spin the Yarn You Love
From start to finish, spin any type of fiber into yarn that is ready to use for your favorite knitting, crocheting, or weaving projects! With expert author and teacher Beth Smith's step-by-step instructions and encouraging guidance, plus detailed illustrations and an extensive glossary, this indispensable resource covers everything from choosing your wheel to drafting the fiber and plying and finishing your beautiful yarn.
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Showing Poultry
A Complete Guide to Exhibiting Your Birds. A Storey BASICS® Title
by Glenn Drowns
Part of the Storey Basics series
Expert Glenn Drowns offers all the information and guidance you need to successfully exhibit your poultry at fairs and expositions. Learn how to select the best breeds and birds for exhibition and how to raise them with the proper diet, health care, and handling so that they are at their best by showtime. Drowns includes a useful countdown to help you plan tasks, from pest prevention to cage training, as well as dozens of tips on what judges are looking for. This addition to the Storey BASICS farming line is for the thousands of people raising chickens and other poultry who want to take the next challenge: exhibiting their birds in shows small and large, whether urban, suburban, or rural. Glenn Drowns, author of Showing Poultry and Storey's Guide to Raising Poultry, 4th Edition, and his wife conserve and promote rare breeds and varieties of turkeys, ducks, geese, and chickens at their Sand Hill Preservation Center in Calamus, Iowa. Drowns, a highly respected poultry judge, has raised standard turkey varieties since 1989, and he received the American Livestock Breeds Conservancy's Breed Conservation Award in 1999 for his contributions to the identification and survival of rare turkeys. The Keys to Successful Showing
So you've fallen in love with raising chickens (or ducks or geese or turkeys), and now you can't wait to see how your beautiful birds compare with others. Preparing for a show, large or small, is a great way to practice proper handling and learn how to keep poultry healthy and thriving so they look their best. Author and veteran poultry judge Glenn Drowns will lead you through the entire process, from where to get your birds to what to expect from the judges. Chapter 1: Getting Started
Chapter 2: Acquiring Your Birds
Chapter 3: Raising Birds to Show
Chapter 4: Raising Healthy Birds
Chapter 5: A Month Ahead: Getting Ready
Chapter 6: The Week of the Show
Chapter 7: Showtime
Chapter 8: Poultry Showmanship
Chapter 9: Post-Show Follow-Up
Countdown Checklist
Show Record
Index
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Making Hay
How to Cut, Dry, Rake, Gather, and Store a Nourishing Crop
by Ann Larkin Hansen
Part of the Storey Basics series
Ann Larkin Hansen offers expert advice on everything from scythes to disc mowers, and details the pros and cons of using horse power or tractors. You'll learn how to choose the right species for your soil, judge hay quality to buy or sell, and determine how many bales your animals need to stay happy, healthy, and energetic. From cutting, drying, and raking to baling and storing, this Storey BASICS® guide covers all you need to know to successfully make your own hay.
Ann Larkin Hansen is the author of The Backyard Homestead Seasonal Planner, The Organic Farming Manual, The Electric Fencing Handbook, Finding Good Farmland, and Making Hay, coauthor of A Landowner's Guide to Managing Your Woods with consulting forester Dennis Waterman and master logger Mike Severson, and coauthor with her husband, Steve, of Maintaining Small-Farm Equipment. She has been a journalist for more than 30 years, specializing in organic agriculture and sustainable forestry. A homesteader and a small-scale organic farmer, she lives with her family on a farm in northern Wisconsin.
Introduction: Good Hay
Chapter One: Judging
Chapter Two: Cutting
Chapter Three: Drying
Chapter Four: Raking
Chapter Five: Gathering
Chapter Six: Storing
Chapter Seven: Problem Solving and Planning
Appendix
Glossary
Resources
Index
Exactly What You Need to Know
Put your idle fields to work. Organic farmer Ann Larkin Hansen clearly and simply explains the five steps to the age-old art of making hay to feed livestock. This complete guide covers how to suit the hay to your animals and the haying equipment to your farm operation, how to judge the weather and the crop, and precisely how to cut, rake, dry, gather, and store a winter's supply of hay to be fed to your animals or sold for profit.
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How to Build a Fence
Plan and Build Basic Fences and Gates
by Jeff Beneke
Part of the Storey Basics series
Whether you want to protect your garden, provide a safe enclosure for pets, or add privacy, this Storey BASICS® guide covers you everything you need to know to build the perfect fence. Offering clear step-by-step instructions, Jeff Beneke shows you how to construct a variety of fences from wood, vinyl, and chain link. With designs that are easily adaptable to all types of yards, you'll soon be putting up a functional and beautiful fence that works with your landscape. This compact guide offers instructions for designing and building several basic styles of fences.
Jeff Beneke is an avid woodworker, house renovator, gardener, and gourmand who has written more than a dozen home-improvement books, including How to Build a Fence and The Fence Bible. He lives in Sebastapol, California.
Introduction
Chapter One: Planning, Design, and Layout
Fence Law - Fencing with a Purpose - Style and Other Design Considerations - Creating Plans - Plumb, Level, and Square - Before You Start Digging
Chapter Two: Wood Fences
Choosing the Wood - Fasteners for All Seasons - Setting Posts - Attaching Rails - Post Top Details - The Picket Fence - Vertical-Board Fences - Louvered Fences - Lattice Fences - Vinyl and Other Wood Alternatives - Choosing and Applying a Finish
Chapter Three: Metal Fences
Ornamental Fences - Chain-Link Fences - Mesh Fencing
Chapter Four: Gates
Design Decisions - Gate Hardware
Resources
Index Exactly What You Need To Know
Build a simple fence perfectly suited to your needs, whether to protect your garden, keep your animals safe, or add privacy to your yard. Covering a variety of fencing materials, Jeff Beneke, offers step-by-step instructions for designing and building several basic styles, including picket, vertical board, and chain-link fences. Even with no prior building experience, you can construct a useful, good looking fence that will stand strong in your yard for years.
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How to Make a Quilt
Learn Basic Sewing Techniques for Creating Patchwork Quilts and Projects
by Barbara Weiland Talbert
Part of the Storey Basics series
With simple step-by-step instructions that require only basic sewing skills, Barbara Weiland Talbert shows you how to make your own beautiful and durable quilts. Taking you through the complete quilting process in an easy-to-follow sequence, Talbert shows you how to select a suitable design, choose the best fabric, cut shapes, piece together blocks, assemble the quilt top, and finish your project. You'll quickly acquire the know-how and inspiration to create unique high-quality quilts that add a charming touch to your home.
EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
If you've yearned to make a quilt, Barbara Weiland Talbert will show you how to create accurately stitched patchwork blocks that can be joined to make a quilt top. All you need are basic sewing skills, a sewing machine, a few key tools, and an assortment of colorful cotton fabrics. In addition to mastering basic block cutting and assembly, you'll learn how to layer your finished quilt top with batting and backing, machine-quilt them together, and finish your project with binding and a label.
INTRODUCTION: Let's Make a Quilt
What Makes a Quilt a Quilt?
CHAPTER 1: Get Ready
Gathering Tools and Supplies: The Quilter's Toolbox * Preparing Your Sewing Machine * Choosing a Quilt Project * Selecting Fabric * Selecting and Preparing Batting * Choosing Thread
CHAPTER 2: Essential Skills: Cutting, Sewing, and Pressing
Rotary Cutting Basics * Stitching a Perfect Seam * Press It Right
CHAPTER 3: Making Patchwork Blocks
Basic Piecing * Alternate Piecing Methods * Making a Log Cabin Block * Piecing Basic Triangle Units * Cut-No-Triangles Folded-Corner Piecing * Making the Sampler Blocks
CHAPTER 4: Assembling the Quilt Top
Easy Quilt Settings * Cutting and Adding Borders
CHAPTER 5: Finishing Your Quilt
Preparing the Quilt Top * Making the Quilt Sandwich * Quilt It! * Before Binding * Binding Your Quilt * Labeling Your Quilt * The Beginner's Sampler Quilt
Resources and Links
Reading List
Index
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Making & Using Caramel
Techniques & Recipes for Candies & Other Sweet Goodies
by Bill Collins
Part of the Storey Basics series
Chef Bill Collins demonstrates all the techniques you need to make caramel candies, cookies, puddings, and more, using illustrated step-by-step instructions that ensure success every time. Includes safety guidelines, troubleshooting tips, and irresistible recipes!
Core knowledge for learning to make and work with that favorite tricky, sticky, delectable treat: caramel!
Bill Collins is the author of Making & Using Caramel, How to Make Chocolate Candies, Knife Skills, and Making & Using Vinegar. A graduate of the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, he cooked at the old Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boston and directed new product development at Harbor Sweets (Salem, Massachusetts) prior to establishing Chef Bill, Inc., in 2001. He has been a professional chef, a personal chef, a food industry consultant, and a cooking instructor, giving classes everywhere from community colleges to Whole Foods to Stonewall Kitchen. As Chef Bill, he has written newspaper columns on kitchen skills. He lives in Pelham, Massachusetts. Part One: Introduction to Caramel
Essential Equipment
The Main Ingredients
Success with Caramel
Part Two: The Recipes
Candies, Brittle, and Toffee
Sweet and Savory Sauces
Pies, Cakes, and Other Desserts
Resources
Metric Conversion Chart
Index Caramel Made Easy
Transforming simple sugar into rich, gooey caramel may seem like magic, but with ingredients you probably have on hand and a few basic pieces of equipment, you can easily master chewy candies, crunchy brittles, sauces, and more. Personal chef and cooking instructor Bill Collins shares all you need to know to understand the many stages of caramelized sugar and the techniques to avoid crystallization catastrophes. His mouthwatering recipes include your favorite caramel candies, plus puddings, pies, and other baked goods.
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How to Knit Socks That Fit
Techniques for Toe-Up and Cuff-Down Styles
by Donna Druchunas
Part of the Storey Basics series
Whether you're working socks from the toe up or from the cuff down, designer Donna Druchunas's complete, step-by-step instructions make sock knitting easy, enjoyable, and successful. You'll learn several approaches for getting started, and you'll also discover how to shape comfortable toes, create heels that fit, and ensure stretchy cuffs that can be counted on to keep your socks up. Druchunas's useful tips and tricks include working confidently with double-pointed needles, knitting socks on one or two circular needles, and even knitting two socks at the same time. Once you've mastered these basic techniques, you can adapt them to create your own custom sock designs.
Introduction: Why Knit Socks?
Chapter One: Yarn for Knitting Socks
• Yarn Weights
• Fiber Content
• Yarn Colors
• Why Twist and Spin Matter
• Yarn Amounts
Chapter Two: Needles for Knitting Socks
• Needle Materials
• Knitting in the Round
• Tips for Arranging Stitches on Different Kinds of Needles
Chapter Three: Sock Fit and Sizing
• Taking Foot Measurements
• Working a Gauge Swatch
• Choosing What Size to Make
Chapter Four: The Parts of a Sock
Chapter Five: Cuff Down or Toe Up?
• A Little History
• Structural Differences
• Pros and Cons
Chapter Six: Knitting Cuff-Down Socks
• Basic Cuff-Down Sock Pattern
Chapter Seven: Knitting Toe-Up Socks
• Basic Toe-Up Sock
Chapter Eight: Heel and Toe Variations
• More Ways to Work a Heel
• More Ways to Work Toes
Chapter Nine: Knitting Two Socks at Once
Chapter Ten: Stitch Library
My Favorite Knitting Resources
Abbreviations
Metric Conversion Chart
Index
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