Complete, easy-to-follow directions that will save time and money. Projects include a lawn chair, compost bin, and movable shed.
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With easy-to-follow directions and a materials lists, this is a book of projects that any beginner can take on and successfully complete. Among the titular 101 are designs for lawn furniture, movable sheds, cold frames, garden shelves, and a compost bin. You will save time and money by "building your own."
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“If you want to save time and money, or make your life easier and more productive, look through this book. You will find something that will help you, something that will be easy for you to build – even with only hand tools and limited experience.” – Country & Small Stock Journal
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This review is from: HomeMade: 101 Easy-to-Make Things for Your Garden, Home, or Farm (Paperback)
The pictures in this book are just terrific- clear, well-drawn, and simple in that pre-digital, 70's pen-and-ink style that makes me downright nostalgic. And there are a lot of things in the book that I didin't know I needed until I saw them- how about a tool cleaner? Put sand in a large container, mix in used oil, and store your tools in the sand/oil mix. They come out not just cleaned, but already oiled, too. Also inside: multiple composters, a cold frame, a root cellar, feeders, brooders, bird houses, chairs, benches, fencing, gates- and you can probably build them most of them just by looking at the pictures. It's like having a cool great-uncle teach you old farm tricks.
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If you build things, this book is great. It's not very detailed so you have to fill in the blanks, a beginning builder may need a little help. What a cool book for ideas on "farm life" type of items. Movable pig styes, horse sheds, chicken coops and even an incubator. My Aunt & Uncle owned this book when I was a teenager. My uncle built an incubator for me from the plans in this book. I gathered a dozen duck eggs from the haystack (after installing a dimmer switch to regulate the temperature from the light bulbs, because I couldn't find a thermostat) I incubated a dozen duck eggs, diligently turning them twice a day, watching the thermometer, keeping the water pan full. Every egg hatched. What a triumph! It is 20 years later and I still pull that book off the shelf. It's a keeper.
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This book is a wonderful aid for those who want to add a creative (and helpful) touch to their home, garden, or farm. The ideas presented in the book offer something for every level of crafts-person. The drawings are clear, uncluttered and easy to understand and follow. The directions are concise yet full of information. The projects will blend in to any home. A wonderful book for the beginner!
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Before you go too far into this book, selecting projects that will simplify life for you, look over the next few pages. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cold frame, exterior plywood, combination square, diagonal brace Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Materials Hardware Tools, Department of Agriculture, Chicken Feeder New!
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Before you go too far into this book, selecting projects that will simplify life for you, look over the next few pages. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cold frame, exterior plywood, combination square, diagonal brace Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Materials Hardware Tools, Department of Agriculture, Chicken Feeder New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Complete Guide to Growing Berries and Grapes by Louise Riotte on page 95
- Raising Poultry the Modern Way by Leonard S. Mercia on page 159
- The Family Cow (A Garden Way Publishing Book) by Dirk Van Loon on page 111
- Let it Rot!: The Gardener's Guide to Composting (Third Edition) (Storey's Down-to-Earth Guides) by Stu Campbell on page 71
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