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Gardeners who compost save money in many ways. Compost contains nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, plus trace nutrients that plants need, so it reduces the need for purchased fertilizer.

The plans in this e-handbook offers instructions on how to build easy compost containers and how to use compost. Chapters include:

• Plans for Compost Bins and Boxes
• Selecting the Compost Pile Location
• Ingredients for Compost
• Stuff to Keep Out of Compost Pile
• Composting Without a Pile

With the help of this handy resource, you can start your own compost pile. Your plants will love you for it! 36 pages.

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If you're looking to buy an old house to fix up, this e-handbook helps you look beyond the romance and whimsy of an old house to determine, realistically, what is likely to go wrong and what it would take to make the house livable.

With this valuable resource, you can learn to tell if a foundation is sound, the plumbing works, or the kitchen needs remodeling. Seek an expert opinion when you've decided you really want a particular house but aren't sure about a particular feature. 35 pages.

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The farm or homestead fishpond is slowly gaining recognition for being a multi-valued asset. It can provide fish and recreation for the entire family. It can also be a source of water for irrigating the garden, the orchard, watering cattle and even water for firefighting in case of an emergency.

This e-handbook provides diagrams to convert natural ponds into productive fish ponds and how to find and build man-made fish ponds. Chapters include:

• Selecting the Site
• Clearing the Pond Site
• Using Existing Ponds or Small Lakes to Build a Fishpond
• Types of Fishponds
• Constructing New Fishponds

A well planned and constructed fishpond will pay for itself in time It will add to the economy by furnishing food for the family, as well as providing recreation. 32 pages.

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In recent years dozens of commercial smokers have appeared on the market, most of them expensive, hard to clean, and none of them more efficient than a homemade smoker.

This e-handbook teaches you how to make a simple smoke box or barrel or a strong, tight smokehouse that will endure for decades. It also discusses the three basic ways of curing and/or smoking meats, fish, and poultry, hot smoking, cold smoking, and curing and smoking.

Why not build your own smokehouse or pit and start enjoying the savory, succulent taste of smoked meats? 36 pages.

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Why, you may be asking yourself, would anyone want to build a bat house? Bats rid the world of billions of insect pests every night, and they act as pollinators and seed dispersers for many different plants. An excellent way to make neighborhoods attractive to bats is to provide artificial habitats to augment the decreasing natural ones.

This e-handbook helps you understand these winged creatures, their habitat and how you can help. Chapters include:

• The Benefits of Bats
• Bats and Human Health
• Attracting Bats
• Bat-Proofing Your Home
• Bat House Construction
• Bat House Plans

This important resource dispells the myths about bats and shows you how you can give back to these creatures that do so much for us. 36 pages.

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Birds delight, amuse, and confound us with their antics, habits, and avian operas, and they are extremely beneficial as well. They eat weed seeds, wood-boring ants, gnats, flies, agricultural pests and more. Birds need water, food and safe shelter where they can raise their young.

This informative e-handbook helps you determine what type of birdfeeders and seed to use in order to attract a variety of birds. Chapters include:

• Finding the Best Location
• 10 Tips for Building the Best Bird Feeders
• Platform Feeder
• Tin Can Feeder
• Suet Feeder
• Hummingbird Feeder
• Suet Log Feeder

Also included is a list of materials, tools and illustrations to help make your backyard a bird sanctuary. 36 pages.

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Do you want to save on what could be wasted garden surpluses and lower food costs? Try storing food the natural way, in storage rooms and root cellars, in pits and trenches, or even in the garden.

This e-handbook shows you where and how to build an underground root cellar, cold storage in you basement and pits or trenches in your garden. It also has important information on the proper storage for a variety of fruits and vegetables. Why not keep large quantities of food that is cheaper, less work, and far more energy-efficient than canning or freezing? 29 pages.

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If dampness or even occasional flooding is preventing you from enjoying your basement, this e-handbook will help you identify the source and cause of the moisture and will describe specific remedial action you can take.

This resource guide takes you through problem-solving solutions to different leakage scenarios, materials and instructions needed to correct leakage problems and moisture capacity of various types of soil. Chapters include:

• What Are Your Plans for the Basement?
• Where Does the Water Come From?
• How Does the Water Get Inside?
• Severe Water Problems: When Does It Leak?
• Poor Drainage: What Causes It?

Whether you use your basement as additional living, working or storage space, this handy resource will help you keep it dry. 26 pages.

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More and more people are turning to wood as a primary or secondary heating fuel, and as this number increases, so too does the sophistication of our wood stoves/furnaces, and our knowledge of wood heat.

This e-handbook outlines various ways to speed the seasoning process — from no-cost methods of stacking the wood properly to building a low-cost, pole-built storage shed. Chapters include:

• How Much Wood?
• The Construction Process
• Types of Metal Roofing
• Alternate Roofing
• Enclosing the Shed
• Stacking the Wood

Properly seasoned wood is as important a part of the woodburning process as a well-constructed stove or a safe installation. 36 pages.

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You don't have to be a master carpenter to make the wood furniture projects in this e-handbook. Step-by-step instructions and illustrations show you how to build a small table for your hallway, an Adirondack chair or a picnic set for enjoyable outdoor living. Only simple hand tools are needed to complete these simple projects. Other projects include:

• Wall Shelf
• Small Bench
• Pump Lamp
• Step Stool
• Storage Box

You'll enjoy the furniture you build, and get even deeper satisfaction from having built it yourself. 37 pages.

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