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Singing Creek  Item#: 9780140237207
Capturing America's heart in 1920, Opal's childhood diary became an immediate bestseller. Innocent and intimate, this haunting diary reveals the life of a kind of feminine Peter Pan in the Oregon wilderness.
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Logsdon Collection  Item#: 0-300-0000-18
The Gene Logsdon Collection: The Contrary Farmer and Living at Nature's Pace
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Buffalo for the Broken Heart  Item#: 9780375761393
Buffalo for the Broken Heart. . A fascinating read! This is a bold, brave and beautifully written book that should be required reading for every cattleman and beef-eater in America.
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TBJ Search  Item#: 9780425181812
Tom Brown's story of difficult tracking cases as an adult, and ending with Tom's most difficult tracking test of all, tracking Stalking Wolf to his final resting place. A great book that expresses the author's philosophy of native spirituality well.
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TBJ The Vision  Item#: 9780425107034
The first of Tom Brown's autobiographical books that focus on the spiritual side of his apprenticeship with Stalking Wolf, the Lipan Apache mentor he called "Grandfather".
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Pond Lovers, HC  Item#: 9780820324692
explore the beauty of a farm pond and how it becomes the center of the universe for the social fabric of family life by providing recreation and a spot for reflection, and how it can become the center of the universe for sustainable agriculture
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Buffalo Bird Womans Garden  Item#: 9780873512190
traditional methods and tools that Hidatsa women used to raise huge crops of corn, beans, squash and sunflowers on the rich bottomlands of the Missouri River
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Truckpatch  Item#: 9780929332116
A compendium of the award winning columns Ward Sinclair wrote for the Washington Post.
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Family Friendly Farming  Item#: 9780963810939
A Multi-generational Home-Based Business Testament by Joel Salatin
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All Flesh Is Grass  Item#: 9780804010696
The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming brought to you from the Contrary Farmer, Gene Logsdon, this book will assist you in providing your family and the market with healthy food while ensuring a good living for the family farmer.
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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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Why Cows Learn Dutch  Item#: 9780873388238
Why Cows Learn Dutch and Other Secrets of Amish Farms will appeal to all who are fortunate enough to share their lives with the Amish families who live and farm the old way.
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Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting  Item#: 9781571743817
a new and rapidly unfolding realm of feelings that physicians, scientists, physicists, and theologians are coming to believe are very, very, real.
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You Can Go Home Again PB  Item#: 9781590982181
You Can Go Home Again. The author, Gene Logsdon, witnessed the dying-down days of a farming culture that really had not changed much since the invention of the scythe.
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Contrary Farmer  Item#: 9780930031749
Contrary Farmer. Critics of American Agriculture bemoan the widespread decline of family farms and the dominion of chemical intensive factory farming.
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Art of Bev Doolittle  Item#: 9780867130805
Art of Bev Doolittle
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Loving and Leaving the Good Life  Item#: 9780930031633
Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of Living the Good Life and many other books, lived together for 53 years until Scott's death at age 100.
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Crunchy Cons  Item#: 9781400050642
Crunchy Cons. In this book Dreher describes the "Small is Beautiful" style of conservative politics that sometimes finds him in the same camp as lefties outside the Democratic mainstream.
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Good Life, Helen & Scott Nearing  Item#: 9780805209709
twentieth-century pioneering venture in a New England community, derived from twenty years of living in the backwoods of Vermont. This book aims to present a technical, economic, sociological, and psychological report
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To Build the Life You Want  Item#: 9780312141417
This is an affirming book that encourages experimentation, trust of the inner voice and a spiritual perspective to achieving financial security and new avenues of work. Her prescriptions make sense. They apply to real life as we all know it.
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Harvest: A Year in the Life of an Organic Farm  Item#: 9781592282340
the day-to-day reality of family life: arguments over work, money, and child-rearing, as well as disputes over who is going to take produce to market or how many animals to keep.
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Plain and Simple: A Womans Journey to the Amish  Item#: 9780062501868
Plain and Simple: A Woman's Journey to the Amish by Sue Bender. A graceful story of a search for meaning, simplicity, and order.
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Mother and Child  Item#: 9780892816378
or thousands of years, traditional cultures have recognized what we are just beginning to rediscover: that a mother's words in the ears of her child have the power to provide the foundation for a healthy, well-adjusted human being.
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Letters from the Woods  Item#: 9780976127505
Escape to a quiet corner of the world as we read about honest, heartfelt and humorous adventures and life-lessons on the rivers and lakes of North America.
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Gene Stratton-Porter Novelist and Naturalist  Item#: 9780871950529
When Gene Stratton-Porter died at the age of sixty-one in December of 1924, she was one of America's most popular novelists and the best know of the many Indiana authors.
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Cowboy Highway CD LAST ONE  Item#: MS-1220-2
Cowboy Highway by Cotton Yancey is a collection of stories and poems of the Great American Cowboy taken from his life experiences as a Gold Card Member of the Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association.
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Elegant Choices, Healing Choices  Item#: 9780809130108
Elegant Choices, Healing Choices. Each choice says something to us, says something about us. The author talks about how our choices reflect who and what we are as individuals.
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Mentors Spirit  Item#: 9780312204235
artists of encouragement," who help us discover what is unique about our calling in life and encourage us to pursue it.
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Mountain Home  Item#: 9780920698549
after 25 years of experience in actually trying to live a more nature-friendly life, recounts the highlights and disappointments with a series of fireside tales about wild animals, family pets, simple housing, natural foods and the daily challenges.
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TBJ Tracker  Item#: 9780425101339
The true story of Tom Brown Jr. The most powerful and magical high spiritual adventure since The Teachings of Don Juan.
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A Country Year  Item#: 9780395967010
A Country Year. When her thirty-year marriage broke up, Sue Hubbell found herself alone and broke on a small farm in the Ozarks. Keeping bees, she found solace in the natural world.
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Walking on Eggshells  Item#: 9780767920841
This book offers ground-breaking insights and deeply moving stories that will inspire those in even the toughest situations and will help navigate the delicate relationship between adult children and parents.
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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle  Item#: 9780060852559
A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver. "As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddles against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows
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Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio  Item#: 9780743273930
The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio-How my Mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less.
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You Can Farm  Item#: 9780963810922
AUTHOR: Joel Salatin. The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise. Brought to you by the same author who brought you Polyface Farm, you may now make your dreams of making a living on the family farm come true.
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Lords of Folly  Item#: 9780897335577
a group of seminarians make their way to Ascension Seminary in Shakopee to complete their education as Oblates of St Joseph. The young men question everything about the lives they lead studying for the priesthood.
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Ram Dass Still Here  Item#: 9781573228718
Ram Dass helps us explore the joy, pain, and opportunities of the ripening seasons of our lives. It is a perspective on aging, changing, and dying that he hopes will make the tumultuous process a little easier for all of us.
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A Handmade Life  Item#: 9781933392479
A Handmade Life,In Search of Simplicity. A Handmade Life carries Coperthwaite''s ongoing experiments with hand tools, hand-grown and gathered food, and handmade shelter, clothing, and furnishings out into the world to challenge and inspire.
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Henry and the Great Society  Item#: 9780892930487
Henry takes the 1900-1950 period in rural America and condenses it into a ten-year period to dramatize the methods used by the government and corporate America to bring "rural America" into the modern times
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Letters From Eden: A Year at Home, in the Woods (Hardcover)  Item#: 9780618573080
The paintings used here, of scenes from her beloved southern Ohio home, illuminate well-crafted essays based on her daily walks and observations.
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Joseph Campbell A Fire in the Mind  Item#: 9780892818730
Authors, Stephen Larsen and, Robin Larsen, were able to capture, not only the life events of Joseph Campbell but also the evolution of his studies and thoughts about myth, art, religion and the world.
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Conversations with Wendell Berry  Item#: 9781578069927
Conversations with Wendell Berry. Interviews with the writer, ranging from 1973 to 2006, including one never before published.
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Maple Sugar Book, The  Item#: 9781890132637
In an age of microchips and software that are obsolete before you can install them, maple sugaring is a process that's stood the test of time.
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This Organic Life PB  Item#: 9781931498241
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.
Our Price: $19.95
Crunchy Cons PB  Item#: 9781400050659
Crunchy Cons. In this book Dreher describes the "Small is Beautiful" style of conservative politics that sometimes finds him in the same camp as lefties outside the Democratic mainstream.
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Plenty  Item#: 9780307347329
When you sit down to a meal, each item on your plate has typically traveled between 1,500 and 2,500 miles. One Man, One Woman, and a raucous year of eating Locally. Plenty is about eating locally and thinking globally.
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Coming Home to Eat  Item#: 9780393323740
We really are what we eat. Eating close to home is not just a matter of convenience, it is an act of deeply sensual, cultural, and environmental significance. Gary Paul Nabhan's experience as an avid gardener and subsistence hunter-gatherer, as an ...
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And You Know You Should Be Glad  Item#: 9780060881931
And You Know You Should Be Glad. A true story of lifelong friendship. Tremendously moving, funny, heart stirring, and honest.
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And You Know You Should Be Glad CD  Item#: 9780061120718
And You Know You Should Be Glad DVD. A true story of lifelong friendship. Tremendously moving, funny, heart stirring, and honest.
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Little Heathens  Item#: 9780553384246
For many years author Mildred Kalish had the urge to describe that treasure trove of memories of a time gone forever. In response to the basic human instinct to share feelings and experiences, and partly for the sheer joy and excitement of it all.
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