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See more detail | | Fruit Tree Pruning DVD & Booklet. Join a live demonstration by Purdue Extension's Jim True as he gives a hands-on demonstration of fruit tree pruning. Then take the 36 page booklet along with you as a guide when you prune your own trees. When Jim began working with Purdue University and their Master Gardener Program he started teaching the fruit tree production and pruning class using a hands-on demonstration with apple limbs to show how to make the proper pruning cuts. Also covers peaches, blueberries, blackberries, and grapes as well as orchard site selection, variety selection and maintenance.
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See more detail | | The Woodburner's Companion
The Woodburner's Companion. With fuel prices still going higher, more people than ever are looking at alternative ways to stay warm. This third edition of Dirk Thomas's popular and authoritative guide adds a section on getting started with wood heat. In addition there is a new "FAQ" section where frequently asked questions are answered.
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See more detail | | The Scythe Book 2nd Ed
The Scythe Book 2nd Ed. For the gardener, farmer or homeowner, a scythe, a good scythe, is an efficient and enjoyable tool for cutting grasses and weeds, and for harvesting small grains. In this book David Tresemer presents the results of years of research and practical experience so that the reader may also learn to use and enjoy the scythe.
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See more detail | | Work Horse Handbook, Second Edition
The Work Horse Handbook is the quintessential operator's manual for horses and mules in harness. The author, Lynn Miller, has been a farming teamster for over thirty years. He has authored many books on the subject of animal-powered agriculture and is the founder, publisher, and editor of Small Farmer's Journal. He has also taught workshops, lectured, and demonstrated many aspects of the teamster's craft.
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See more detail | | Home Sausage Making
Home Sausage Making. The instructions for making most sausage variations are surprisingly simple! This classic book by Susan Mahnke Peery and Charles Reavis will give you the information and confidence you need to make top-quality, healthy, one of a kind sausages that are better than anything you can find at the supermarket.
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See more detail | | Field Dressing and Butchering Deer, HC
Step-by-step instructions and useful black and white illustrations and photos explains how to field dress and butcher deer in order to prepare and preserve it for cooking or storage. WITH FREE SHIPPING AND A HANDLING FEE OF ONLY $2.50 OUR PRICE BEATS THE BIG GUYS!
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See more detail | | This complete, no-nonsense guide, originally published in 1901, dispenses invaluable instruction on all essential skills of the blacksmith's craft.
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See more detail | | The Definitive Reference on Home Meat Preservation! You'll learn how to make corned-beef, bacon, liverwurst, smoked sausage, bologna, Canadian bacon, cured turkey, venison mincemeat, ham, pemmican and jerky.
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See more detail | | Pruning Book
Divided into three major sections, "The Basics", "The Plants", and "Specialized Pruning Techniques", the book covers every operation and timing of them in a comprehensive way.
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See more detail | | Hive Management
Hive Management. For the practicing beekeeper who needs more information, or for the starting beekeeper who wants to start out right Hive Management offers sensible advice to keep your honey bees thriving.
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See more detail | | A classic book useful to anyone who hunts, farms or buys large quantities of meat.
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See more detail | | Family Cow. Learn the costs, the gains, and what she gives and takes. You'll learn about nutritional needs, purchasing your cow, how to handle, feed and fence, how to milk, uses of milk, health and diseases, breeding and calving, growing feed crops and uses of manure.
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See more detail | | Stocking Up. Carol Hupping covers all the bases with complete information about canning, freezing and drying vegetables, meats, dairy products and fruit.
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See more detail | | The author, Carla Emery, lived her passion and provided us all with information on how to live a more self-sufficient life. Her book entitled The Encyclopedia of Country Living contains much information about her life. Cooking, gardening, raising animals, the author included may aspects of country living.
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See more detail | | Home Cheese Making
Home Cheese Making. Contains 75 recipes for cheese and other dairy products such as sour cream and yogurt. 60 additional recipes for cooking with cheese
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See more detail | | Home Water Supply
You'll learn: how to find water, how to move it, how to purify it, how to store it, and how to distribute. You'll know when to try something yourself, and when to call a plumber or other expert.
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See more detail | | Know Your Woods
A unique reference guide that neither the craftsman nor the tree lover should be without. Traces different varieties of lumber from the forest to the sawmill to the craftsman's workshop. Every person interested in the broad subject of woods--their identification, characteristics, and uses--will find this book a revelation. The information is presented in a clear, nontechnical style. It describes over 300 principal woods; indicates the common and scientific names of each; shows how to recognize a tree by its leaf, bark, or berry; and features over 150 illustrations on how to identify a type of wood by grain, color, and texture. Reprint of a 1987 edition.
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See more detail | | Tan Your Hide
In Tan Your Hide! Phyllis Hobson explains just what you need to tan your own leather and fur and the basic steps involved in doing it right. The end result is a handmade item that will last for many years. Tanning is a complex and labor intensive process. This is a good beginners book .
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See more detail | | Setting up your own forge and crafting everyday items is easier than you might think. Guides you step-by-step through the process of building a simple forge from recycled materials, acquiring or crafting the basic tools, and learning the techniques to get you started in blacksmithing. McRaven, who began smithing out of a desire to make his own tools for building and restoring hewn-log homnes, demonstrates his simple methods in easy-to-follow photos throughout this book.
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See more detail | | New Woodburner's Handbook
Today's environmental concerns have led to a new generation of high-tech stoves, designed to burn cleaner and more efficiently than ever before. The New Woodburner's handbook is the essential layman's guide to both the latest improvements and the age-old wisdom of heating with wood. Chimney sweep Stephen Bushway presents first-time and long-time woodburners with all the information necessary to heat a home economically and safely, while safeguarding the environment for ourselves and our children.
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See more detail | | Self-Sufficient Life & How to Live It
The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It: The Complete Back-To-Basics Guide by John Seymour teaches the skills needed to live independently in harmony with the land--from harnessing natural forms of energy, raising crops and keeping livestock, to preserving foodstuffs, making beer and wine, basketry, carpentry, weaving, and much more.
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See more detail | | "The Backyard Lumberjack" is your complete guide to bringing in the wood. Felling, Bucking, Stacking, Burning, It's all here, from choosing the perfect chain saw to managing a wood-lot to safely enjoying the pleasures of a backyard bonfire.
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See more detail | | Woodworking Basics
This book provides a step-by-step introduction to all aspects of woodworking including: Safe use of woodworking machinery, correct use of hand tools, Milling a board four-square, Cutting a mortise-and-tenon joint, Cutting dovetails. The author's approach to learning woodworking has proven successful for hundreds of people who have taken the author's introductory course over the past 20 years
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See more detail | | Making Harness
Making Harness - A Step-by-Step Guide by Lewis G. Martin and Daniel S. Preston. Born in 1932, Lewis G. Martin moved to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia when he was eleven years old. He began making harness in 1962. While Lewis has made almost any style and size of harness imaginable (even harness for turtles), he still enjoys making driving harness the most.
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See more detail | | Woman's Hands On Home Repair
Don't let the title fool you, the young man just starting out in his own place will benefit from this self-help book as well. You'll learn how to fix: Appliances, from washers and dryers to disposals and ice makers; Fuses, switches, outlets, and lighting fixtures; Dripping faucets and clogged drains; Broken windows, stuck doors, and faulty latches; Holes in walls and creaky or worn floors and much more.
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See more detail | | Field Dressing and Butchering Deer plus Field Dressing and Butchering Upland Birds, Waterfowl and WildTurkeys; both by Monte Burch. Hard cover books.
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See more detail | | Whether you buy them at the farmer's market, a grocery store, a roadside stand or pick them in daily batches from your own garden, the combination of these two books in the Harverst Valu-Pac brings you a total of 325 exciting recipes for the abundant produce of the season.
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See more detail | | Simple inventions described for doing everything from managing young bulls to protecting drain outlets can be just as useful for today's farmer as they were for the homesteaders of over a century ago.
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See more detail | | Foundations of Natural Farming
Join author/researcher Harold Willis as he explains the foundation concepts of natural farming and sends out the call for cleaner forms of food and fiber production. In this single volume, the author details the interconnections between soil chemistry, micro-life, plants and livestock.
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See more detail | | Hobby Farms: Chickens This essential guide directs both new and experienced chicken keepers through the nuances of tending a small-scale flock for pleasure and profit.
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See more detail | | The Backyard Beekeeper
The Backyard Beekeeper. This "honey" of a book has information on bees, and a how-to guide to bee keeping plus how to set up, care for and harvest your own hives. The second half of the book is a complete guide to honey. Includes the different types of honey, health facts, as well as lots of ideas and recipes for using honey.
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See more detail | | Living off the land or learning how your ancestors achieved their goals. This book is for you.
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See more detail | | Country Wisdom Almanac
Country Wisdom Almanac. Country Wisdom Almanac provides hundreds of ideas and methods for living the good and simple life, plus information on weather, gardening, buying produce and cooking by season, holidays, frost dates, moon phases, and more.
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See more detail | | The Complete Compost Gardening Guide
The Complete Compost Gardening Guide. Compost-rich gardens require less digging, weeding, mulching, and even less planting. And here's one of the best parts no more backbreaking slogs from compost bin to garden.
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See more detail | | Just In Case
Just In Case by Kathy Harrison. Comprehensive coverage of emergency preparedness includes food storage, alternative heating sources, personal supplies for every family member, entertainment ideas, toiletry and proper clothing, pet supplies, emergency family communication plans, and neighborhood cooperatives
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See more detail | | We Wanted a Farm
We Wanted a Farm by M. G. Kains. Kains shows how he and his family moved from New York City apartments to a full-fledged farm in easy stages. A back-to-the-land adventure from 1941.
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See more detail | | Small-Scale Grain Raising, Rev.
Small-Scale Grain Raising, Rev. Small-Scale Grain Raising offers an entirely new generation of readers the best introduction to a wide range of both common and lesser-known specialty grains and related field crops, from corn, wheat, and rye to buckwheat, millet, rice, spelt, flax, and even beans and sunflowers
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See more detail | | Horse Hoof Care
Horse Hoof Care. Readers will find comprehensive coverage of lost shoes, hoof cracks, thrush, clubfoot, contracted heels, and many other common problems, along with advice on treatment.
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See more detail | | Surviving and Thriving on The Land
Surviving and Thriving on The Land. When your dreams are spoiled by lack of money, stress, exhaustion and poor time management, and your work and future plans can dissolve into discord, illness and poverty. Rebecca covers questions such as: How do you balance work and leisure on a small holding? How do you cope with children whilst working on the land? What makes a successful land-based community tick? What happens when you get old?
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See more detail | | Reprint of a classic originally published by Reader's Digest. Created to both inspire and instruct, it returns readers to an era before power saws and fast food restaurants so they can rediscover the pleasures and challenges of a more self-sufficient, economical, and healthy lifestyle.
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