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    How To Make Amish Whitewash: Make Your Own Whitewash, Paint, and Wood Stain
    How To Make Amish Whitewash: Make Your Own Whitewash, Paint, and Wood Stain
    How To Make Amish Whitewash: Make Your Own Whitewash, Paint, and Wood Stain
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    How To Make Amish Whitewash: Make Your Own Whitewash, Paint, and Wood Stain

    By Leigh Tate

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    Old-fashioned whitewash is making a comeback! Simple and inexpensive to make, this environmentally friendly finish for wood contains no VOCs, deters insects, and is not toxic to animals. This little eBook explains how to make it, the different types of lime available, how to make whitewash more durable, waterproof, and colorful, and how to use it safely. Includes a glossary, and 30 recipes for homemade whitewash, paint, and wood stain. NOTE: The Smashwords distributed editions no longer contain the chapter "Resources" for where to find the materials mentioned in the instructions of this book.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLeigh Tate
    Release dateJun 13, 2016
    ISBN9781311156020
    How To Make Amish Whitewash: Make Your Own Whitewash, Paint, and Wood Stain
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    Leigh Tate

    Leigh Tate has always loved living close to the land. From the back-to-the-land movement to the modern homesteading movement, the agrarian lifestyle is the one she says feels like home. She and her husband currently homestead five acres in the foothills of the Southern Appalachians. Their vision is to become as self-sustaining as possible by stewarding their land, animals, and resources. Leigh's homesteading activities include gardening, food preservation, foraging, raising goats, chickens, and guinea fowl, herbs, cheese making, permaculture landscaping, spinning, weaving, knitting, sewing, quilting, natural dying, soapmaking, wood cookstove cookery, and renovating their old 1920s farmhouse.

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      How To Make Amish Whitewash - Leigh Tate

      The Little Series of Homestead How-Tos

      from 5 Acres & A Dream

      How To Make Amish Whitewash

      Make your own whitewash, paint, and wood stain

      by Leigh Tate

      Kikobian Books

      www.kikobian.com

      Text & photos copyright © 2014-2021 by Leigh Tate.

      All rights reserved. This eBook is licensed for your personal use only. It may not be re-sold or given away. Purchaser is granted permission to make one print copy for their personal preparedness files. Otherwise, except for brief quotations in reviews, no portion of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without the written permission of the author. For more information, contact Kikobian Books at info@kikobian.com.

      Published: June 13, 2016

      Revised: April 6, 2021

      Contents

      Preface

      What's Up with Whitewash?

      All About Lime

      Safety Precautions

      Instructions for Basic Whitewash

      How To Make Your Whitewash More Durable

      How To Make Your Whitewash More Waterproof

      How To Color Your Whitewash

      Care And Maintenance Of Whitewash

      A Collection of DIY Recipes

      Whitewash

      Homemade Paint

      Homemade Wood Stains

      Glossary

      Bibliography

      About the Author

      Preface

      When I published 5 Acres & A Dream The Book: The Challenges of Establishing a Self-Sufficient Homestead, I described it as neither a how-to nor a why-to book. Although it contains quite a bit of practical advice about many homesteading skills, it is mostly the story of our journey toward simpler, sustainable, more self-reliant living. The Little Series of Homestead How-Tos is a complement to that book. It is a work in progress which will eventually include all of the skills mentioned in 5 Acres & A Dream The Book. 5 Acres & A Dream The Sequel, and Critter Tales, plus other how-tos as well. I hope they will encourage you, my readers, toward

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