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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver

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After 25 years in the Arizona desert, in 2004, Kentucky-bred Barbara Kingsolver moved back to the Appalachians, to a Virginia farm just hours from her childhood home. Family called. "Returning," she explains in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, "would allow my... (read more)
 
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Introduction to Permaculture
by B. C. Mollison

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Written to introduce readers to Permaculture concepts and design strategies. Topics include: energy efficient site analysis, planning and design methods, house placement, design for temperate, dry-land and tropical regions, urban Permaculture garden... (read more)
 
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Poultry

Chicken Coops: 45 Building Plans for Housing Your Flock
by Judy Pangman

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Easy-to-care-for, productive, inexpensive, and full of personality, chickens are popping up in backyards throughout the country— in the suburbs, rural towns, and even on city plots. All it takes to keep a small flock is a bit of land and a properly... (read more)
 
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Llamas

Caring for Llamas & Alpacas: A Health and Management Guide (2nd Edition)
by DVM and Ingrid Asmus Clare Hoffman

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Spiral bound for easy reference in your Barn! Topics covered: Buying a Llama or Alpaca Congenital Defects Digestive Problems Down Llama or Alpaca Eyes Giving Injections Heat and Cold Problems Herd Health Lameness Lumps and Bumps Mastitis... (read more)
 
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Livestock General

Keep Chickens!: Tending Small Flocks in Cities, Suburbs, and other Small Spaces
by Barbara Kilarski

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Chickens are hot! There's a chicken-farming boomlet on the rise, with upscale urban and suburban homeowners from every part of the country ordering fancy breeds of chickens, hiring architects to build elegant chicken coops in their backyards, and signing... (read more)
 
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Sustainable Living

Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World
by Alan Weisman

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The eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia, known as the llanos, are among the most brutal environments on Earth, an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. Here, more than twenty-five years ago, an intrepid... (read more)
 
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Profiles and Biography

Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression
by Mildred Arms Kalish

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“Using this book alone, one could reconstruct, with glorious exactness, a lost time and place.  Mildred Kalish has a novelist's eye for detail and a beautiful understanding of what the gestures of daily life mean.  A lovely, wise... (read more)
 
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Goats

The Year of the Goat: 40,000 Miles and the Quest for the Perfect Cheese
by Margaret Hathaway

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Many people dream of leaving the workday world for a life of simplicity and freedom, and Margaret Hathaway and Karl Schatz did just that. Feeling like something was missing from their city lives, the couple began to dream of an existence that was closer... (read more)
 
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Bees and Beekeeping

Teach Yourself Beekeeping (Teach Yourself)
by Adrian Waring

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Catch the buzz on beekeeping This indispensable guide gives you everything you need to set up, maintain, and maximize honeybee colonies of all sizes--either in your suburban backyard or on your urban rooftop. With Teach Yourself Beekeeping, you will get... (read more)
 
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