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Home, Garden, and DIY March 2023 |
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| Downshiftology Healthy Meal Prep: 100+ Make-Ahead Recipes and Quick-Assembly Meals by Lisa BryanWhat it is: a debut cookbook packed with 100 simple, big-batch recipes focused on whole foods, plus details on tools, prep, and storage.
Recipes include: Mediterranean Sheet Pan Eggs, Lemony Lentil Soup, Creamy Salmon Zoodles, Honey Citrus Chicken, Key Lime Tartelettes.
Read this next: For another cookbook that eschews refined sugar and gluten, try Danielle Walker's Healthy in a Hurry. If you want more on healthy meal prep, pick up Skinnytaste Meal Prep by Gina Homolka or The Ultimate Meal-Prep Cookbook by American's Test Kitchen. |
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| Home Detox: Make Your Home a Healthier Place for Everyone Who Lives There by Daniella ChaceWhat it is: "a thoroughly researched and practical guide" (Library Journal) to detoxing your home, room by room.
Why you might like it: Home Detox examines toxins found in common household items and gives tips for eliminating or reducing them, plus offers suggestions for tidying tools and recipes for homemade cleaners.
Want a taste? "Toxins are linked to thousands of common health conditions and diseases." |
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| 100 Plants to Feed the Birds: Turn Your Home Garden into a Healthy Bird Habitat by Laura EricksonWhat's inside: details on planning a bird-friendly garden as well as in-depth profiles of 100 plants -- including herbaceous plants, trees, grasses, shrubs, and vines -- that will provide food and shelter for birds throughout the entire year.
Don't miss: the details on why bird habitats are needed, the beautiful color photos, planting and care advice, and a list of plants to avoid. |
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| Watercolour Lessons: How to Paint and Unwind in 20 Tutorials by Emma LefebvreWhat it is: personable YouTuber Emma Lefebvre's approachable, beautifully illustrated guide to watercolors, based around 20 tutorials, that's perfect for beginners or anyone who wants to improve their skills.
Chapters include: Supply Guide, Colour Theory and Colour Mixing, Before You Begin, Botanical Painting Projects, Landscapes, Animals. |
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| Home Therapy: Interior Design for Increasing Happiness, Boosting Confidence, and... by Anita YokotaWhat it is: an engaging holistic home design guide with color photos and practical tips, by therapist-turned-designer Anita Yokota, who considers your style preferences as well as your emotional well-being.
Read it if... you want a lovely, well put-together home and a more thoughtful life.
Reviewers say: "Yokota’s calming charm makes for an original approach to domestic bliss" (Publishers Weekly). |
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DIY Mushroom Cultivation : Growing Mushrooms at Home for Food, Medicine, and Soil
by Willoughby Arevalo
Don't want to go out picking? Bring mushrooms into your life as you dive into the practice of home-scale mushroom cultivation.
What's inside: Beautiful full-color photos and step-by-step instructions accompany a foundation of mushroom biology and ecology to support a holistic understanding of the practice. Growing techniques are applicable year-round, for any space from house to apartment, and for any climate, budget, or goal.
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Mushrooming Without Fear : the beginner's guide to collecting safe and delicious mushrooms
by Alexander Schwab
Don't be scared! Novices eager to collect tasty wild mushrooms will find this unique guide invaluable. Unlike others, it focuses only on those types that are both safe to eat and delicious. Most importantly, it presents the eight rules of mushroom gathering in a straightforward fashion, including, "Never, never take a mushroom with gills" and "If a mushroom smells rotten, it is rotten."
How it helps: Each mushroom is identified with several photographs and identification checklist, and there's also information on mushroom season, handling, storage, and cooking, complete with recipes.
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Mushrooms of British Columbia
by Kem Luther
The BC Mushroom Book: Experts Andy MacKinnon and Kem Luther bring a practical and playful approach to helping people quickly and confidently identify the mushrooms of British Columbia.
What's great about it: Common names trump technical terminology, fungi are grouped by overall shape, and written descriptions of more than 350 common species are reinforced with carefully curated diagnostic images.
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Click HERE for the full list of this month's new books
Grand Forks & District Public Library
7342 5th Street
Box 1539
Grand Forks, British Columbia V0H1H0
250-442-3944
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