"Whether you're prepping for a camping trip or hunting trip, stocking your pantry, or saving the surplus from your garden, here's the only book you'll need. Learn how to dehydrate everything from apricots to zucchini and master the simple techniques needed to make your own jerky, as well as leathers, candied fruit, baby food, and more."--Back cover.

"In The Healing Garden, Deb Soule, founder of Avena Botanicals, offers an inspiring guide to herb gardening and crafting herbal remedies that promote wellness of spirit and body. Soule combines her passion for plants gardens, and healing with her extensive experience working with medicinal herbs, flowers, roots, and berries. Her practical advice addresses each aspect of fostering a garden filled with helpful, healing plants: biodynamic gardening practices;...

"This beginner-friendly guide, written by a herbalist who specializes in every aspect of making and using cannabis medicine, teaches how to grow healthy cannabis plants outdoors for personal use, and make your own customized remedies for addressing a range of common ailments and chronic conditions"--

Learn to craft and create using papier mache-- a fun, easy, and hands-on hobby that both kids and adults will love. After introducing readers to the materials and techniques needed, Hand presents projects, ranging from a planter made from recycled bottles and jars to ornaments and bracelets. Readers are encouraged to use their imaginations, and the step-by-step instructions are easy for even beginners to follow! -- adapted from perusal of book

"In these essays, Zuker shares intimate stories of life in the rainforest and its surrounding cities during an age of raging wildfires, mass migration, populist politics, and increasing deforestation. As a group of Venezuelan migrants wait at a bus station in Manaus, looking for a place more stable than home, an elder in Alter do Cĥo becomes the first Indigenous person in Brazil to die from COVID-19 after years of fighting for the rights and recognition...

"The author of Saint Everywhere is answering the call from fans for more reports from her quest to learn from some quietly extraordinary women-and a man or two-who have changed the world. Mary Lea Carroll travels to shrines and hometowns to learn about such amazing people as Saint Marie of Quebec, who founded the first girls' school in the New World; philanthropist-turned-saint Katherine Drexel of Philadelphia; Saint Brigid, a patron saint of Ireland;...

"The Beginner's Guide to Wheel Throwing is a friendly, contemporary take on the classic wheel-throwing book-perfect for new and returning ceramic artists"-- If you're trying pottery for the first time, it's only natural to want to jump right in and sit down at the wheel. Weber shares tips and trips to help you master each process for wheel throwing, from first forms to unleashing your creativity with a variety of finishing techniques. Gallery work...

"Gathered is an accessible, contemporary guide to the sustainable art of drying flowers. Learn about this chic craft's origins, variety of uses, and the inexpensive practice of drying and elegantly arranging flowers today. Find inspiration and follow step-by-step instructions to master all of the basic skills, tools and techniques necessary to preserving your grasses and blooms beautifully, both for the home and special occasions. At the heart of...

This is Part A of two programs which include the propagation and processing of Australian native species together with American and Caribbean pines. The processes covered by this program are: Ecology Classification and structure - hardwoods and softwoods Harvesting - clear felling; shelter trees; plantations Structure of a tree trunk Saw milling - back sawn; quarter sawn; radial sawn Drying of hardwoods Use of hardwoods - structural timbers;...