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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.
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Home Cheesemaking  Item#: 9781580174640
Home Cheesemaking. Covers everything the novice cheese maker needs to know about making delicious cheese on the first try!
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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.
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Edible Wild Plants of North America  Item#: 9780806974880
Covers over 200 healthful, nutritious, delicious plants in a season-by-season format. Comprehensive, precise and filled with drawings and maps
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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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Fruits & Berries Home Garden  Item#: 9780882667638
This no-nonsense guide to fruits and berries has been completely revised and updated.
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Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine  Item#: 9780892817351
Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine. This is not a recipe book; it IS a book about changing your lifestyle in a way that will provide real benefits in terms of health and longevity.
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Communities Directory  Item#: 9780960271481
Communities Directory. This is an extremely useful directory for anyone interested in learning about, visiting or participating in a cooperative living situation.
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BackYard Orchardist  Item#: 9780963452030
The newsletter of the North American Fruit Explorers calls it, "The finest single source of fruit growing information published to date, very comprehensive".
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Holy Cows & Hog Heaven  Item#: 9780963810946
Holy Cows & Hog Heaven. While this book is primarily aimed at consumers, producers (especially those direct marketing or considering it) will want to read it to so they know what consumers are hearing and looking for.
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Homebrewers Garden  Item#: 9781580170109
Homebrewer's Garden
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Making Bent Willow Furniture  Item#: 9781580170482
Step by step instructions and drawings that will enable you and your family to make a willow chair, basket, swing or other nice projects in a weekends time including harvesting materials.
Our Price: $19.95
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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Making Rustic Furniture  Item#: 9781887374125
An introduction to the least expensive, most accessible form of woodcraft imaginable: making furniture from sticks, logs, driftwood and scrap lumber. You probably have the tools and most of the materials are free.
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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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Circle Houses Speak to the Soul  Item#: 9781890132866
This book contains basic instructions for designing and constructing your own 21st century yurt, tipi or bent-frame tent. Circle homes are remarkable for their economy, resilience and portability.
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Building Multi-Use Barn  Item#: 9780913589762
An excellent guide, comprehensive, concise, well-illustrated, and highly readable. Step-by-step instruction through the planning, costing, and building of a 30' x 24' multi-use barn.
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Making Transparent Soaps  Item#: 9781580172448
The art of crafting, molding, scenting and coloring. A full color book with easy to follow step-by-step instructions. Working in your kitchen you can create soaps that are milder, creamier and richer than any commercial brand.
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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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Field Dress & Butcher Big Game  Item#: 9781585743575
To enjoy big game on the table, it is essential to field dress the meat properly, transport it quickly, cool the meat down thoroughly and rapidly, butcher it efficiently, and then cook it to your liking.
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Log Home: Care & Maintenance  Item#: 9781592283385
Maintenance is a valuable reference that will help you save time and money, and avoid frustration-- while ensuring that you get all the benefits and pleasure of living in a beautiful, solid, and satisfying home.
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Living Within Our Means  Item#: NEW
From the engineering marvels of the past which did not rely on fossil fuel to the claims of the ultimate energy just around the corner, from the end of a era with "cheap" energy to the kind of community planning necessary to live within our energy
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Apple Grower, Rev.  Item#: 9781931498913
Apples are "organics final frontier". Many orchard "experts" say that growing apples organically is flat-out impossible
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American Farmstead Cheese  Item#: 9781931498777
American Farmstead Cheese. The Complete Guide to Making & Selling Artisan Cheeses. Paul Kindstedt with the Vermont Cheese Council.
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Cleaning Plain & Simple  Item#: 9781580176071
With plain and simple advice on everything from dusting and swabbing to polishing and vacuuming, best-selling author Donna Smallin shows you how to make the most of your valuable cleaning time.
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Permaculture  Item#: 9780646418445
Permaculture by David Holmgren, co-originator of the Permaculture Concept.
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Native Plants of Commercial Importance  Item#: 9780931486012
Supplement rural incomes by the harvest of native plants and herbs from the region. Among the wild plants of North America are many which have long been used in medicinal, cosmetic, food, and floral industries.
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Gardens of Use & Delight  Item#: 9781555913243
Thirty years ago the Gardners moved to a remote farm in Nova Scotia. In an environment wracked by extremes of weather and blessed only with thin, rocky soil, this family of six wrested beauty and sustenance from the land.
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TBFG Wild Edible and Medicinal Plants  Item#: 9780425100639
Designed for both beginners and experienced explorers this guide is fully illustrated and comprehensive. It includes practical information, time-tested nature skills, and new ways to rediscover the earth around us.
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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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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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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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Living on an Acre  Item#: 9781592281145
a more independent lifestyle and the satisfaction that comes from getting your hands dirty while turning some earth. Whether you're thinking about a second home in the country, starting a part-time farm, or going back to the land, Living on an Acre
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One Acre & Security  Item#: 9781572233942
One Acre & Security is a book for all those who have dreamed of living close to the earth - not in the wilderness, but on land within easy driving distance to the city or suburbs.
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Independent Energy Guide  Item#: 9780964411203
You'll understand how a power system works, be able to talk intelligently with equipment suppliers about your needs, and have the necessary tools to make and manage you own electricity.
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Wind Energy Basics  Item#: 9781890132071
This book gives an overview of the burgeoning use of wind energy around the globe, describing and analyzing the most affordable small wind generators, including the new generation of highly practical micro turbines.
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How To Build Your Own Greenhouse  Item#: 9781580176477
plans and instructions for nine different greenhouse designs including free standing as well as lean-to styles. There is a good high-tunnel plan for market gardeners. This book covers the greenhouse itself and all of its accessories and system
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How To Build a House  Item#: 9781561585328
Straight from the builders of 40,000 houses across the United States. How to Build a House is from the professional home builders of Habitat for Humanity.
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Outdoor Shower  Item#: 9781580175524
Whether you're planning to add a simple wooded shower enclosure to the outside of your beach or lake house, or to build a freestanding shower structure in a private corner of your property, you will find the perfect plan idea.
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Making Toys That Teach  Item#: 9781561586066
Don't miss out on the joy of crafting these toys and watching the children learn while they play. Making Toys That Teach comes with step-by-step instructions and plans,.
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Arithmetic in Agriculture  Item#: GPS-1
A great math book with problems based on agricultural situations. Designed for eighth grade plus. First written in 1939 by Theodore H Fenske it presents arithmetic in a practical way and has been reprinted several times. Chapters include: Whole ...
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Foragers Harvest  Item#: 9780976626602
comparing potentially confusing plants, thorough discussion of how to gather and use wild plants, and a foraging calendar showing harvest times for wild foods.
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Wise Words for the Good Life  Item#: 9781890132415
Wise Words for the Good Life. Along with her husband Scott, Helen Nearing lived in a manner that inspired people throughout the world to seek a dignified, satisfying life.
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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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Whole Food Facts  Item#: 9780892816354
Whole Food Facts. Whole Food Facts describes what each food is, where it comes from, how to store it, and how to cook with it. Comprehensive nutritional breakdowns are provided for every food.
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Healing With Herbs and Home Remedies A-Z  Item#: 9781561707959
Healing with Herbs and Home Remedies A-Z: How to Heal Your Mind and Body with Herbs, Home Remedies, and Minerals, by the late Hanna Kroeger, "the Grandmother of Health".
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Perennial Vegetables  Item#: 9781931498401
Author, Eric Toensmeier, explains how to raise, tend, harvest, and cook with plants that yield great crops and culinary satisfaction.
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Doggy Desserts  Item#: 9781931993807
Homemade treats for happy, healthy dogs. Healthful and nutritious aren't the words you usually hear with desserts, but Doggy Desserts don't have to be unhealthy and sweet to be delicious to your dog.
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Everyday Knots  Item#: 9781602390591
Beautifully illustrated, full-color guide unties the mysteries of more than eighty knots. Using incredibly clear photographs and diagrams, as well as straightforward, easy-to-follow instructions, any reader can master knots for fishing, boating,
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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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Homestead Builder, 2nd Ed  Item#: 9781599211534
The classic guide to building cabins and houses from scratch. Packed with handy advice and useful tips that show the best ways to plan and construct dwellings in any location using wood, earth, and gravel.
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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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Insect, Disease & Weed I. D. Guide  Item#: 9780875968674
Insect, Disease & Weed I. D. Guide. What is it? Why is it in your garden? How can you make it go away? Or should you try to keep it there? Use this book to know what's what in your garden, lawn, and landscape.
Our Price: $15.00




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