Books by Ellen Sandbeck

Laverme's Handbook of Indoor Vermicomposting

Laverme's Handbook of Indoor Worm Composting was written by Ellen Sandbeck, who has set up hundreds of domestic and institutional worm bins (including a 100-foot-long worm bin at a Federal Prison Camp) and contains nearly two decades of worm composting experience rendered down into an easy-to-read 30 pages. It includes information about worm bin set-up, worm husbandry, worm feeding, recommended food and bedding materials, how to use worm compost and worm "juice," pest prevention, trouble shooting, and eatrhworm ecology and worm anatomy.

Organic Housekeeping

Longing for a kinder, gentler world? As the old saying goes, everything begins at home, and odds are, if you live in the all-American household, the air inside is more toxic than the air outside, even if you live in the most polluted of cities. You regularly handle the filthiest object in your home -- the kitchen sponge -- and put the same chemicals on your face that are used in brake fluid and antifreeze.

The cleaning agents and personal care products commonly marketed to and used in American homes contain not only some very dangerous, toxic chemicals, but they also create an "overly clean," chemically bombed-out house that compromises immune systems. And with more than fifty million Americans suffering from allergies and other autoimmune diseases -- not to mention the developing and fragile immune systems of children and seniors -- large numbers of people are actually being made sicker and sicker by their homes.

Learn to live a clean, healthy, more economical way with Ellen Sandbeck, the nontoxic avenger. In this must-have book for the twenty-first- century home, this passionate, witty advocate of all things organic will teach you how to maintain every part of the home -- from living room to septic tank, kitchen floor to bathroom sink -- using safe, simple cleansers and quick preventative measures as well as the most effective organic products on the market to get the job done.

Learn time-saving, preventative housekeeping, such as taking thirty seconds to clean the shower while you shower. Take care of bathroom stains with baking soda and vinegar rather than commercial, toxic bathroom "bombs" peddled to you with such force by manufacturers. Need whiter whites? There is no bleaching power on earth stronger than the sun. Snow clean your fine rugs. Choose fruits and vegetables from the relatively pesticide residue-free list. Clean felt-tipped pen stains with vodka. Make furniture shine with olive oil and lemon. Your house will also smell as great as it looks.

Eat More Dirt

A witty, whimsical gardening primer for anyone who wants to tend their patch of earth with a truly green thumb.

A garden can either bring you bliss or drive you insane, but organic landscape gardener Ellen Sandbeck has spent a lifetime discovering creative, effective techniques for growing and tending a garden with ease—while being kind to the earth itself. Eat More Dirt is her delightful compendium of homespun tips and tricks for designing, planting, nurturing, and beautifying your land without the use of harmful chemicals and pesticides.

SlugBread and Beheaded Thistles

Many homemakers and gardeners take the easy way out when it comes to exiling odors and banishing bugs--they use toxic chemicals that may be harmful to their families and the earth. Ellen Sandbeck has discovered that the all-natural alternatives are just as easy and effective to use, and that they are wickedly fun. Sandbeck's way of banishing thistles from her backyard kingdom is a case in point: she chops off their heads and lets them bleed to death. Slug Bread & Beheaded Thistles reveals all of her best tricks. From bedroom to bathroom, garden to lawn, your home will be clean and green and pest-free.

• Explode cockroaches with baking soda and sugar
• Freshen your car with coffee grounds
• Keep out slugs with a bread dough that kills
• Armor your plants with soap spray
• Grow disease-resistant plants by putting sick ones in your compost pile
• Eradicate crayon marks with mayonnaise
• Protect your roses with a minefield of garlic
• Get rid of raccoons with dirty laundry
• Cure plant viruses with spoiled milk

Animal Silhouettes

Dover Publications

A treasury of striking silhouettes depicts a magnificent menagerie of wild and domesticated animals -- from the tiny mosquito, salamander, dragonfly, and sea horse to the coyote, seal, tiger, horse, and gigantic elephant. Ideal for illustrating magazines and books, newsletters, posters, and advertisements. 310 black-and-white illustrations.

Dinosaur Cut and Use Stencils

64 stencils ideal for illustrating, decorating walls, clothing, furniture, more.

Animals Cut and Use Stencils

44 stencils featuring a multitude of fauna: kangaroo, elephant, camel, cat, frog, rabbit and many more.

Ready-To-Use Animal Silhouettes

Diverse menagerie of pets and domestic animals in bold and striking silhouettes. Over 190 different illustrations--all accurately rendered--of rabbits, pigs, parrots, dogs, cats, horses, cows, sheep, goats, fish, donkeys, geese and other animal kingdom members. Easily reproducible and copyright-free.

Country Life Cut and Use Stencils: 56 Full-Size Stencils Print on Durable Stencil Paper

56 Full-Size Stencils Print on Durable Stencil Paper

Sea Life Punch-Out Stencils

Fascinating samples: lobster, conch, starfish, swordfish, sea turtle, whale, sea lion, dolphin, sea horse, penguin, crab and other creatures-16 different stencils in all. Perfect for children because no scissors are needed. Ideal for adults decorating children's rooms and other areas.

Flowers and Fruits Cut and Use Stencils: 43 Full-Size Stencils

Bold interpretations of a gardenful of favorites: daffodils, narcissi, tulips, hollyhocks, poppies, roses, lily-of-the-valley, trillium, peonies, and many more. A total of 43 copyright-free designs printed on heavy reusable stencil paper. Ideal for stencilling, quilting, numerous other arts, crafts, needlework projects. Instructions.

Ready-To-Use Wild Animal Silhouettes: 205 Different Copyright-Free Designs

Pets Silhouettes: 24 Black-And-White Pressure Sensitive Stickers

Dogs and cats, birds and tropical fish, rabbit, piglet, lizard, and frog.

Birds Punch-Out Stencils

Easy-to-use collection of 18 stencils for craftworkers of all ages includes lifelike representations of hummingbird, chickadee, cardinal, woodpecker, pigeon, blue jay, dove, toucan, great horned owl, swan, duck, 7 other feathered varieties. For decorating walls, furniture, clothing or creating posters, borders and bulletin board displays.

Flowers Punch-Out Stencils