by Barbara Kingsolver and Steven L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver  
Powells.com Staff Pick 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) Your Price $14.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies 
by B. C. Mollison Publisher Comments 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) Your Price $34.50 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Judy Pangman Publisher Comments 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) Your Price $19.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by DVM and Ingrid Asmus Clare Hoffman Publisher Comments 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) Your Price $24.95 (New - Spiral) check for used and sale copies
by Barbara Kilarski Publisher Comments 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) Your Price $16.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Alan Weisman Publisher Comments 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) Your Price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Mildred Arms Kalish Review “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) Your Price $12.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Margaret Hathaway Publisher Comments 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) Your Price $22.95 (New - Hardcover) check for used and sale copies
by Adrian Waring Publisher Comments 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) Your Price $12.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
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Wednesday May 14, 2008
by Wendell Berry Publisher Comments In the twenty-four essays of this collection, Well Berry stresses the carefully modulated harmonics of indivisibility in culture and agriculture, the interdepence, the wholeness, the oneness, of man, animals, the land, the weather, and the family. To... (read more) Your Price $16.00 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Sue Weaver Synopsis Whether for pleasure or profit, both neophyte and seasoned sheep-keepers will benefit from this helpful advice.... (read more) Your Price $14.95 (New - Trade Paper) check for used and sale copies
by Eliot (ed.) Wigginton Publisher Comments Foxfire was created in the late 1960s to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of the southern Appalachians.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your Price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Creative Homeowner Publisher Comments Written with the do-it-yourselfer in mind, Barns, Sheds & Outbuildings gives readers the information they need to plan, build, and finish a utility building. This revised and expanded edition presents a variety of buildings, from the simplest garden... (read more) Your Price $8.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) check for used copies
by John Mcphee Publisher Comments A classic of reportage, Oranges was first conceived as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice, but the author kept encountering so much irresistible information that he eventually found that he had in fact written a book. It contains... (read more) Your Price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
by Sy Montgomery Publisher Comments “Christopher Hogwood came home on my lap in a shoebox. He was a creature who would prove in many ways to be more human than I am.” –from The Good Good Pig A naturalist who spent months at a time living on her own among wild creatures in... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your Price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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