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Root Cellaring  Item#: 9780882667034
Root Cellaring is a way of using the earth's naturally cool, stable temperature to store perishable fruits and vegetables. It is a low-cost, simple technology, energy-saving way to keep the harvest fresh all year long.
Our Price: $14.95
Logsdon Collection  Item#: 0-300-0000-18
The Gene Logsdon Collection: The Contrary Farmer and Living at Nature's Pace
Our Price: $33.00
Living More with Less  Item#: 9780836119305
Presents a pattern for living with less and contains a wealth of practical suggestions for living a simpler life that puts less stress on the environment.
Our Price: $12.99
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.
Our Price: $30.00
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.
Our Price: $18.95
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
Primitive Living, Self-Sufficiency, & Survival Skills  Item#: 9781592282081
Clear, well photographed and diagrammed instructions on skills like the bow-drill fire, cordage making, basket making, fishing, shelter building,
Our Price: $16.95
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.
Our Price: $25.00
Kline Collection  Item#: COMBO-1
Two great books by David Kline the Amish dairy farmer and nationally known naturalist. David's first book Great Possessions: An Amish Farmer's Journal and Scratching the Woodchuck make up this set. Buy them both and save nearly $3.00 and you get our ...
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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.
Our Price: $24.95
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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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.
Our Price: $16.95
Permaculture  Item#: 9780646418445
Permaculture by David Holmgren, co-originator of the Permaculture Concept.
Our Price: $30.00
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.
Our Price: $24.00
In the Absence of the Sacred  Item#: 9780871565099
It is a skewering critique of modern technology, in which cars, telephones, computers, banks, biogenetics, and television all are shown to be part of a mad megatechnology that is destroying the world's resources and robotizing its peoples.
Our Price: $17.95
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
Our Price: $15.00
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.
Our Price: $11.95
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.
Our Price: $26.95
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.
Our Price: $15.95
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.
Our Price: $30.00
Frontier Living  Item#: 9781585741373
Immerse yourself in the character and culture of the men and women who stood at the harsh cutting-edge of our civilization: their dwellings, clothing, food, furniture, household articles; their hunting, farming, schooling, transportation, government
Our Price: $18.95
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.
Our Price: $16.95
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
Bygones The Harvest VHS  Item#: 9781903366462
Bygones The Harvest VHS Demonstrating the use of the scythe and the frail and showing how horses were used to power a range of implements including an early reaper.
Our Price: $34.95
Paper Illuminated  Item#: 9781580173308
Rekindle that old paper flame and make illuminated paper part of your everyday decor. You will learn techniques to make paper more translucent and interesting such as piercing, layering, collaging, crayon batiking, marbling, nature printing, rubber
Our Price: $19.95
Felt It  Item#: 9781580176354
Pick up your knitting needles, grab some warm fuzzy wool, and let designer Maggie Pace guide you through one of these 20 creative patterns for fun accessories. With patterns ranging from simple scarves to challenging bags and hats.
Our Price: $18.95
Secrets of Wildflowers  Item#: 9781585746682
You'll find natural history, folklore, habitats, horticulture, ingenious uses past and present, origins of names, and even their literary pedigrees. Far richer and eminently more varied than any field guide.
Our Price: $24.95
Squirrel Proofing  Item#: 9781580171915
Defend your home and garden from squirrels! The best selling author of Deer Proofing Your Yard & Garden helps homeowners battle one of nature's most wily and persistent creatures - squirrels.
Our Price: $12.95
Solving Squirrel Problems  Item#: 9781585746736
How to keep this ubiquitous pest out of home and garden by, Monte Burch. Where there are trees, there are squirrels, and where there are squirrels, there are ripped garbage bags and ruined attics.
Our Price: $14.95
PFG Animal Tracks  Item#: 9780618517435
Includes descriptions of the habits, habitats, tracks, signs, and ranges of all the mammals of North America. More than 1,000 illustrations show individual tracks, different track patterns, animals in their habitats, droppings, and gnawed trees
Our Price: $19.95
Greenhouse Gardener  Item#: 9780711224353
Greenhouse Gardener by Anne Swithinbank tells us that in the warmth and protection of a greenhouse (with just enough heating to exclude frost, or even unheated), you can raise flowering plants for the garden, bedding plants, dazzling cannas and dahli
Our Price: $35.00
How To Build Treehouses/Huts/Forts  Item#: 9781592281923
the perfect guidebook for kids on how to dream, saw, and build. Basic carpentry and continues with easy-to-follow, step-by-step instructions on building treehouses, forts, and huts.
Our Price: $14.95
Tabletop Gardens  Item#: 9781580178372
Tabletop gardens shows you how to integrate a project with your decor, choose plants and flowers that will thrive indoors, work with space limitations.
Our Price: $16.95
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.
Our Price: $19.95
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,.
Our Price: $19.95
Knitting Loves Crochet  Item#: 9781580178426
Sweet clusters of cherries gather on a child's cardigan, sueded granny squares add panache to Fido's sweater, and whimsical crocheted flowers put just the right flair in hats, scarves, bags, and pillows. Knitting and crochet play well together
Our Price: $18.95
Your Puppy, Your Dog  Item#: 9780882669595
Your Puppy, Your Dog
Our Price: $14.95
Building Trust Through Leadership DVD  Item#: 2534614919
Building Trust Through Life, A cowboy's philosophy on horses and life by Lewis Wood.
Our Price: $60.00
Take Time! DVD  Item#: 9781897136202
Training your dog from farmwork to trialing.
Our Price: $29.95
TBJ Science & Art of Tracking  Item#: 9780425157725
Discover the joys and beauty of nature with Tom Brown, Jr. America's most acclaimed outdoorsman, Tom Brown, Jr., learned the ancient skills of survival from a Native American he called "Grandfather".
Our Price: $14.00
Classic Beadweaving  Item#: 9781402710711
All of the bright, sparkling projects in this book represent many ideas from around the world, and are made with two simple techniques, bead-card stitching and needleweaving. There's something for everyone.
Our Price: $14.95
Celtic Book of Days  Item#: 9780892815654
The Celtic Book of Days will integrate Celtic myth, poetry, prayers, lore, and blessings into your life and help you recognize and celebrate the seasonal turning of the Celtic year.
Our Price: $24.95
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
Our Price: $26.95
Making Rag Rugs  Item#: 9781580174558
original designs includes patterns and color schemes for the contemporary home, as well as inspiration for creating your own unique designs. A detailed tools and materials list and a resource list for finding and ordering supplies
Our Price: $17.95
Artisan Farming - Lessons, Lore & Recipes  Item#: 9781423601333
Artisan Farming - Lessons, Lore & Recipes
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