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Organic Gardening, Crow Miller LAST COPY Out of Print 4/7/08  Item#: 9780028623153
Crow Miller's Organic Gardening. For over 25 years the authors have been innovators in the field of gardening, promoting the understanding and use of organic methods in all areas, many of which were considered impossible.
Our Price: $25.00
Home Sausage Making  Item#: 9781580174718
Home Sausage Making. Two veteran sausage makers share their years of experience with you.
Our Price: $16.95
Logsdon Collection  Item#: 0-300-0000-18
The Gene Logsdon Collection: The Contrary Farmer and Living at Nature's Pace
Our Price: $33.00
Home Cheesemaking  Item#: 9781580174640
Home Cheesemaking. Covers everything the novice cheese maker needs to know about making delicious cheese on the first try!
Our Price: $16.95
Encyclopedia of Country Living  Item#: 9781570613777
The number one book in its field. Far and away the best available. Living in the country or not, the information in this book will be priceless. This encyclopedia is one way in which Carla will be remembered.
Our Price: $29.95
Stocking Up  Item#: 9780671693954
Stocking Up. Carol Hupping covers all the bases with complete information about canning, freezing and drying vegetables, meats, dairy products and fruit.
Our Price: $20.00
Family Cow  Item#: 9780882660660
Family Cow. This is THE basic book--yet with all the essential details--for the family that decides to keep a cow for all the benefits she can provide.
Our Price: $16.95
Joy of Gardening  Item#: 9780882663197
Garden Way's Joy of Gardening by Dick Raymond. This is a wonderful journey into the many advantages of wide row planting, a technique that can double your harvest and reduce weed pressure.
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Basic Butchering of Livestock & Game  Item#: 9780882663913
The author takes the mystery out of slaughtering and butchering everything from beef and veal to pork, poultry, venison and lamb. Text is clear and easy to follow.
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Making & Using Dried Foods  Item#: 9780882666150
Making & Using Dried Foods. Simple step-by-step instructions to guide your through the drying and storing of more than 100 kinds of fruits, vegetables, grains, meats and herbs.
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Hive Management  Item#: 9780882666372
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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Keeping the Harvest  Item#: 9780882666501
Keeping the Harvest. Keeping the Harvest Enjoy your abundant harvest of garden fresh fruits and vegetables through out the year using these simple, satisfying home preservation techniques.
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Work Horse Handbook, Second Edition  Item#: 9780960726806
Written for the beginner, in easy to understand language, and with a generous helping of high quality photographs and drawings.
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Backyard Market Gardening  Item#: 9780962464805
Don't miss out on the chance of a lifetime, make money while enjoying the great outdoors in your own Backyard Market Garden. This book is the Entrepreneur's Guide to Selling What You Grow!
Our Price: $19.95
Pruning Book  Item#: 9781561583164
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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Making Bentwood Trellises, Arbors, etc  Item#: 9781580170512
From collecting the raw materials to doing routine pruning and joinery this book will help you add attractive and useful projects to your property. Lots of nice sample designs and there is even a list of woods and climbing plants recommended.
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Storeys Basic Country Skills  Item#: 9781580172028
Whether you want to make ice cream, sharpen an ax, clean a chimney, raise chickens, clean a fish, or de-skunk the dog you are likely to find the help you need in this gigantic book.
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Barnyard in Your Backyard  Item#: 9781580174565
Barnyard in Your Backyard. Barnyard basics for today's hobby farmer.
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Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game  Item#: 9781580174572
Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game. 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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Farm Blacksmithing  Item#: 9781585740970
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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Field Dress & Butcher Deer  Item#: 9781585743582
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.
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Living at Natures Pace  Item#: 9781890132569
Gene reminds us that healthy, economical agriculture must work "at Nature's pace" rather than trying to impose industrial order and time frames on the natural world.
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This Organic Life HB  Item#: 9781890132941
A great mix of memoir, how-to manual, and locally grown food manifesto. It reads like an over-the-back-fence talk with an old friend. You'll love her recipes and you will be fascinated by her exploits with pest garden animals.
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Complete Book of Greenhouse  Item#: 9781841881454
Essential advice on identification & control of greenhouse pests, diseases & disorders. Illustrated with step-by-step diagrams & photographs explaining each topic.
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Home Water Supply  Item#: 9780882663241
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
Our Price: $18.95
Know Your Woods  Item#: 9781592286829
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.
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Tan Your Hide  Item#: 9780882661018
This book 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.
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Blacksmiths Craft  Item#: 9781580175937
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,
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New Woodburners Handbook  Item#: 9780882667881
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.
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Self-Sufficient Life & How to Live It  Item#: 9780789493323
This book 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.
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101 Deer Hunting Tips  Item#: 9781585743353
Using scents (for best results, it sometimes pays off to use food scents in areas where the food doesn't normally occur) . Rattling (when using natural antlers, making sure that they're no more than three years old).
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Backyard Lumberjack  Item#: 9781580176347
"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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Papermaking w/ Garden Plants & Common Weeds  Item#: 9781580176224
Papermaking with Garden Plants & Common Weeds, By Helen Hiebert. Almost any common plant - from hosta to milkweed, cornhusks, and pineapple leaves-can be transformed into an elegant sheet of decorative paper.
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Shepherds Pup DVD SET  Item#: 9781897127407
The Shepherd's Pup by Derek Scrimgeour will guide you through selecting and rearing the pup and covers 7 key steps for training.
Our Price: $39.95
Woodworking Basics  Item#: 9781561586202
Safe use of woodworking machinery, correct use of hand tools, Milling a board four-square, Cutting a mortise-and-tenon joint, Cutting dovetails.
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Making Harness  Item#: 9780975397206
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.
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Stablekeeping  Item#: 9781580171755
From design to management to maintenance, good stablekeeping minimizes repairs, reduces feed and veterinary bills, helps to ensure that horses are safe and content, and provides a pleasant workplace.
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Womans Hands On Home Repair  Item#: 9780882669731
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.
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Mulch It!  Item#: 9781580173162
Mulch It! by Stu Campbell A practical guide to using mulch in the garden and landscape.
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All New Square Foot Gardening  Item#: 9781591862024
All New Square Foot Gardening is the revolutionary way to grow more in less space. See for yourself why gardeners everywhere have joined the revolution.
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Butcher Bundle (2 BOOKS)  Item#: BUTCH
Butcher Bundle, Field Dressing and Butchering Deer plus Field Dressing and Butchering Upland Birds, Waterfowl and Turkeys; both by Monte Burch. Hard cover books, 6"x9". Free Shipping! To order by phone call 1-866-596-9982 toll free.Butcher Bundle
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Harvest Valu-Pak  Item#: HVP
The Big Book of Preserving the Harvest, by Carol Costenbader Contains 150 recipes for canning, freezing, drying, root cellaring and pickling fruits and vegetables and Andrea Chesman's Serving Up the Harvest shares more than 175 recipes designed to ...
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Meat Goat Demographics & Niche Marketing DVD  Item#: PVPD-3003
Meat Goat Demographics & Niche Marketing DVD. Looking for a great source of information on raising meat goats for profit? This DVD is for you.
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Backyard Poultry Naturally  Item#: 9781601730046
Backyard Poultry Naturally by Alanna Moore is an excellent resource. It is entertaining and informative, and will appeal to amateur and avid poultry farmers alike.
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Finding & Buying Your Place in the Country, 5th Ed.  Item#: 9780793141098
The most comprehensive information source available, this consummate guide to country real estate offers detailed, step-by-step action plans.
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Traditional American Wild Turkey Hunting  Item#: 9781592281510
A full and diverse presentation of the wild turkey, with sections on the different types of turkeys, their history, their behavior, how to hunt them, and how to cook them.
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Homemade Contrivances  Item#: 9781602390188
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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Driving Draft Horses DVD  Item#: 9781893707313
Driving Draft Horses DVD A good teamster is defined by good hands. Correct handling of the driving lines can result in increased productivity for both you and your working team.
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Harnessing Work Horses DVD  Item#: 9781893707290
Horse logger and farmer, Brandt Ainsworth ,shares his knowledge of harnessing, collaring, bridling and grooming a workhorse.
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Ox Yoke DVD Vol 1: Carving  Item#: 9781893707559
Ox Yoke DVD Vol 1:Carving.
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Logging with Horses, Oxen & Mules DVD  Item#: 9781893707238
Logging w/Horses, Oxen & Mules-DVD by Brandt Ainsworth
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Artisan Farming - Lessons, Lore & Recipes  Item#: 9781423601333
Artisan Farming - Lessons, Lore & Recipes
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Foundations of Natural Farming  Item#: 9781601730077
Harold Willis explains the foundation concepts of natural farming and sends out the call for cleaner forms of food and fiber production. The author details the interconnections between soil chemistry, micro-life, plants and livestock.
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Deer Hunters Illustrated Dictionary  Item#: 9781585743490
The Deer Hunter's Illustrated Dictionary provides the reader with the data needed to study, understand, and appreciate these adaptable animals throughout the course of the year.
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