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Adobe Houses for Today: Flexible Plans for Your Adobe Home 8 reviews
Laura Sanchez, Alex Sanchez
Sunstone Press, 2008
A Great Start!
+ professional quality for the do it your selfer
+ Start Basic and Expand as Needed!
+ Adobe Houses for Today
+ For Todays homebuilder
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Barns and Backbuildings: Designs for Barns, Carriage Houses, Stables, Garages & Sheds with Sources for ... 12 reviews
Donald J Berg, 1998
A House-Plan Catalog for Barns!
+ the ultimate source book
+ Great start for ideas
+ Just What I Was Looking For
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The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to Building Your Own Home 6 reviews
Dan Ramsey
Alpha, 2002
Dean Johnson says so.
+ so good I bought the book
+ Still afraid
I *love* Dean Johnson's HOMETIME TV show! He makes an idiot like myself figure out how to do repair jobs around the house. Now he has a rival: Dan Ramsey, author of an idiot's guide to building a home. Dean even wrote the foreword to Dan's book! Lots of practical advice on building a new house ...
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Composting Toilet System Book: A Practical Guide to Choosing, Planning and Maintaining Composting Toilet ...7 reviews
David Del Porto, Carol Steinfeld
Center for Ecological Pollution Prevention, 2000
Most complete and credible book on the topic
+ If you're serious about composting toilets, buy this book
+ extremely detailed, well organized, good read
+ The best book out there
+ Impressive, comprehensive, reader friendly, practical.
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The Simply Solar House: Green Building on a Budget2 reviews
Richard Crume, Yoko Crume
Counterbalance Books, 2007
Reviews from Back Cover
+ This book helped me !
"Anyone with an interest in constructing a solar, energy-efficient home can learn the basics from this book, even with little prior technical knowledge or home building experience. The timing for this impressive resource couldn't be better."
Regina Johnson, Editor, Solar Today
"Good, clear, ...
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Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance34 reviews
John Storey
Storey Publishing, LLC, 1999
Great overall starter guide and reference
+ Handy reference
+ Very good reference
+ Basic Country Skills
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Finding & Buying Your Place in Country (Finding and Buying Your Place in the Country)17 reviews
Les Scher, Carol Scher
Kaplan Business, 2000
A Bible for rural real estate.
+ Don't buy rural land without it!
+ Excellent resources if you are looking for land
+ Great starting point for beginning land buyers
+ almost too much info
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The Encyclopedia of Country Living120 reviews
Carla Emery
Sasquatch Books, 2008
A must have
+ Great resource for simple living in urban areas or BFE
+ Carla Emery's Book A Must Have
+ A pillar of the homesteading community
+ Love this book!!! Love - love - LOVE IT.
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Country Wisdom & Know-How 31 reviews
The Editors of Storey Publishing's Country Wisdom Boards
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, 2004
Wisdom Is In Its Pages
+ Wisdom
+ Great
+ Tons of information, but layout is a little awkward
+ Learn to be on your own
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Stone House: A Guide to Self-Building With Slipforms3 reviews
Tomm Stanley
Stonefield Publishing, 2004
It's easy to build it yourself with slipforms
+ intelligent and entertaining
It's easy to build it yourself with slipforms - especially if you also have in hand Tomm Stanley's Stone House, covering slipforming methods, sources for materials, stonelaying techniques, and more. Tomm Stanley and his partner know their stuff: he built his own home from slipforms and his ...
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Working Alone: Tips and Techniques for Solo Building24 reviews
John Carroll
Taunton, 2002
Working Alone
+ Uncommonly Common Sense
+ Working alone
+ Dobra pozycja dla pracujcych samotnie
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Real Dirt : The Composting Guide to Backyard, Balcony and Apartment Composting
Mark; Johnson, Lorraine Cullen
Penguin Books Canada, Limited, 1992
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Natural Timber Frame Homes2 reviews
Wayne Bingham, Jerod Pfeffer
Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2007
thoughful, well written, beautiful photos.
+ Great home design & reference book with awesome photos
This book is far from typical. It is well written and has a strong theme about the economic and environmental imperative of natural building with local materials. Gibbs and Smith typically publish pictures books with writing that is secondary to design. This book has both great writing and great ...
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Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long46 reviews
Eliot Coleman, Barbara Damrosch
Chelsea Green, 1999
Useful book
+ New take on gardening
+ Great insight for winter gardening
+ Very usefull
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Log Homes Made Easy: Contracting and Building Your Own Log Home13 reviews
Jim Cooper
Stackpole Books, 2000
log cabins are cool
+ Great first book to buy on log home building!
+ The Best!
This book is a winner if you're contemplating building or even renovating a log home. The author is a builder of great experience and gives alot of information and advise I have not seen elsewhere. The checklists in back are handy too. Highly recommended.
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Building a Straw Bale House: The Red Feather Construction Handbook7 reviews
Nathaniel Corum
Princeton Architectural Press, 2005
Inexpensive and Efficient Housing
+ Great book for the layman
+ Good book
+ A great handbook for those considering straw bale construction
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Let it Rot!: The Gardener's Guide to Composting (Third Edition) (Storey's Down-to-Earth Guides)15 reviews
Stu Campbell
Storey Publishing, LLC, 1998
Creating the best garden ever starts at the bottom
+ The classic book!
+ Beginning Composters (this is a must have!)
+ Stinky subject good book!
+ Let it Rot book
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The Hand-Sculpted House: A Practical and Philosophical Guide to Building a Cob Cottage: The Real Goods Solar ...23 reviews
Ianto Evans, Michael G. Smith, ...
Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2002
More than a book
+ Wonderful!
+ Core, must-have owner builder book
+ Beautiful Book!
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All New Square Foot Gardening118 reviews
Mel Bartholomew
Cool Springs Press, 2006
No dig gardening
+ All New Square Foot Gardening
+ Awesome! Fun!
+ Awesome Book
+ Excited Again About Gardening
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Basic Composting: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started (Stackpole Basics) (Basic How-to Guides)4 reviews
Stackpole Books, 2003
Basic Composting
+ Good - not very technical but technical enough
+ Just what I needed!
+ Great basic knowledge
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