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Greenhorns: 50 Dispatches from the New Farmers' Movement by Zoe Ida Bradbury Publisher Comments Meet America's New Farmers. Resourceful and hard-working, Greenhorns are passionate about improving the food we eat through sustainable and humane farming practices. Their inspirational stories speak to the challenges and rewards of earning a living off... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Beekeeping: A Practical Guide by Richard E Bonney Publisher Comments Whether you're a beginning beekeeper or one with a season or two of experience, Richard Bonney tells you how to keep bees, not just have them. This new book by the acclaimed author of Hive Management offers vital, up-to-date information about how to... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Beekeeper's Bible: Bees, Honey, Recipes & Other Home Uses by Richard A Jones Publisher Comments The Beekeepers Bible is as much an ultimate guide to the practical essentials of beekeeping as it is a beautiful almanac to be read from cover to cover. Part history book, part handbook, and part cookbook, this illustrated tome covers every facet of the... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $19.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Organic Farming: Everything You Need to Know (Everything You Need to Know) by Peter Fossel Publisher Comments Going organic may be a clear way of getting back to basics—and getting away from the havoc chemicals can wreak on our health and our environment—but the basics themselves may not be so clear. How to begin? What kind of fertilizer and feed are... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Free-Range Chicken Gardens: How to Create a Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard by Jessi Bloom and Kate Baldwin Publisher Comments Many gardeners fear chickens will peck away at their landscape, and chicken lovers often shy away from gardening for the same reason. But you can keep chickens and have a beautiful garden, too! Fresh eggs aren't the only benefit — chickens can... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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Successful Small-Scale Farming: An Organic Approach (Down-To-Earth Book) by Karl Schwenke Publisher Comments "My advice is as old as the plow." So says author, Karl Schwenke of his guide to making a full- or part-time living on the land, a book for anyone who plans to own a small farm. With sections on soil management, farm practices, cash crop... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Your Farm in the City: An Urban-Dweller's Guide to Growing Food and Raising Animals by Lisa Taylor Publisher Comments The most complete book on urban farming, covering everything from growing organic produce and raising chickens, to running a small farm on a city lot or in a suburban backyard. Eating locally and growing one's own food is a rapidly evolving movement in... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Dirty Life: A Memoir of Farming, Food, and Love by Kristin Kimball Publisher Comments "This book is the story of the two love affairs that interrupted the trajectory of my life: one with farming—that dirty, concupiscent art—and the other with a complicated and exasperating farmer." Single, thirtysomething, working as a... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sheepish: Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet by Catherine Friend Publisher Comments What do you do when you love your farm . . . but it doesn’t love you? After fifteen years of farming, Catherine Friend is tired. After all, while shepherding is one of the oldest professions, it’s not getting any easier. The number of sheep... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Farm Together Now: A Portrait of People, Places, and Ideas for a New Food Movement by Amy Franseschini and Daniel Tucker Synopsis With interest in home gardening at an all-time high and concerns about food production and safety making headlines, Farm Together Now explores the current state of grassroots farming in the U.S. Part oral history and part treatise on food politics, this... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $10.95 Sale - Hardcover
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The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land by Norman Wirzba Publisher Comments In this remarkable anthology, 15 essays--from Wendell Berry, Vandana Shiva, and others--call upon people to celebrate the gifts of the earth through honest work and respect for the land.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Short History of the Honey Bee: Humans, Flowers, and Bees in the Eternal Chase for Honey by Readicker Henderson Publisher Comments There are around 16,000 species of bee. Only seven of these are responsible for creating the world's sweetest treat -- honey. Combining Ilona's gorgeous photography and E. Readicker-Henderson's engaging text, A Short History of the Honey Bee follows the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.50 Sale - Hardcover
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The Bucolic Plague: How Two Manhattanites Became Gentlemen Farmers: An Unconventional Memoir (P.S.) by Josh Kilmer-Purcell Publisher Comments “I adore the Beekman boys story. Their unlikely story of love, the land, and a herd of goats is hilariously honest. If these two can go from Manhattan to a goat farm in upstate New York, then I cant help feeling there is hope for us all.”... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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First Aid for My Horse by Anke Rusbuldt Publisher Comments A concise and practical guide to handling all the basic first-aid needs of your... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sugarhouse: Turning the Neighborhood Crack House Into Our Home Sweet Home by Matthew Batt Publisher Comments An improbably funny account of how the purchase and restoration of a disaster of a fixer-upper saves a young marriage When a season of ludicrous loss tests the mettle of their marriage, Matthew Batt and his wife decide not to call it quits. They set... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Permaculture 2 by Bill Mollison Publisher Comments This book is about design. It is a practical book dealing with the elements of design which create a sustainable system. Energy benefits are discussed relating to both domestic and broad acre environments. Permaculture 2 is about design, not... (read more) Your price: $24.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Self-Sufficiency: A Complete Guide to Baking, Carpentry, Crafts, Organic Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More! by Abigail R Gehring Publisher Comments Now, more than ever, people across the country are turning toward simpler, greener, and quieter ways of living—whether they’re urbanites or country folk. Following in the footsteps of Back to Basics and Homesteading, this large, fully... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Extraordinary Pigs by Stephen Green Armytage Publisher Comments From the author of Extraordinary Chickens comes the latest extraordinary animal--the pig. One of the most intelligent animals on earth, the pig is a fascinating creature with an abundance of personality. Photographer Stephen Green-Armytage captures... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Crop Rotation by Yaram U. Berklian Book News Annotation Nine studies are collected for this volume, which is organized around the broad theme of crop rotation. The studies focus on specialized topics: weed control, herbicides, and rigid ryegrass in Western Australia; issues associated with doing small... (read more) List Price $92.50 Your price: $37.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture (2nd Edition) by Toby Hemenway Staff Pick Gaia's Garden has been an indispensable reference for gardeners who want to turn their yards into ecosystems that work with nature to create gardens that are beautiful, beneficial (to insects, birds, and people), and self-sustaining. This second edition... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $20.97 Sale - Trade Paper
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