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Chickens: Tending a Small-Scale Flock for Pleasure and Profit (Hobby Farms) by Sue Weaver Publisher Comments Helps hobby farmers to become more knowledgeable about their poultry and to better appreciate the bountiful gifts they bestow.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Oliver Hart-Parr by C H Wendel Publisher Comments Gone, But Not Forgotten The last Oliver green tractor may have rolled off the assembly line nearly three decades ago, but by the time the company's legacy was already cemented. With their unmistakable dark green paint, yellow grilles and red wheels... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Modern Homestead: Grow, Raise, Create by Renee Wilkinson Publisher Comments Everything you ever wanted to know about homesteading, all with a cool, modern style. From windowsills to backyards, cities hold more potential for growth than just urban sprawl. We can grow vegetables, raise small livestock, and fill our cupboards with... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Wisdom of the Last Farmer: Harvesting Legacies from the Land by David Mas Masumoto Publisher Comments David Mas Masumoto works a family farm, growing organic peaches, nectarines, and grapes. When Mas’s father had a stroke on the fields of their 80-acre farm, Mas confronted life’s big questions: what do his and his father’s lives mean... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Teach Yourself: Get Started in Beekeeping (Teach Yourself) by Adrain Waring Publisher Comments An indispensable bible of information and practical advice on beekeeping Get Started in Beekeeping covers everything from bee behavior to what to do with honey. It balances all the background context on bee biology with the day-to-day and seasonal... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Keeping Ducks and Geese by Chris Ashton Synopsis Keeping ducks and geese can be a fascinating hobby for the whole family. From producing eggs for food and painting, quills for writing, birds for exhibition or even eating, ducks and geese can add a new dimension to the garden or smallholding. They make... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $8.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Starting & Running Your Own Small Farm Business by Sarah Aubrey Publisher Comments You Can Farm for a LivingWith entrepreneurial drive, a practical business plan, and some marketing savvy, you can run a successful small-farm business that brings your products to your target audience. The demand for fresh, local, organic, naturally... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Joy of Hobby Farming: Grow Food, Raise Animals, and Enjoy a Sustainable Life (Joy of) by Michael Levatino Publisher Comments When the farm is a lifestyle, not just a way to earn a living, that's hobby farming. Most of us want to live a sustainable life in which we protect the land and keep it safe from development and overproduction. But we can take this a step further by... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Raising Poultry (Storey's Guides to Raising) by Leonard S Mercia Publisher Comments For 17 years readers have turned to Storey Books for advice on raising animals. Our Modern Way series of six books has sold more than 1,000,000 copies. In an effort to provide readers with the best how-to animal books on the market we are completely... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Pay Dirt: How to Make $10,000 a Year from Your Backyard Garden by John Tullock Synopsis In the face of rising food prices and food poisoning scares, people want locally grown food, giving small gardeners the chance to turn a profit. This practical, step-by-step guide explains how to turn a small plot of land into a money-making resource.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Goat Song: A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese by Brad Kessler Publisher Comments Goat Song is the story of a year in the life of a couple who abandoned their one-bedroom apartment in New York City to live on seventy-five acres in Vermont and raise Nubian goats. In poetic, reverent detail, Brad Kessler explores our ancient... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Hive the Story of the Honeybee & Us Uk by Bee Wilson Publisher Comments Ever since men first hunted for honeycomb in rocks and daubed pictures of it on cave walls, the honeybee has been seen as one of the wonders of nature: social, industrious, beautiful, terrifying. No other creature has inspired in humans an identification... (read more) Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sheep: Small-Scale Sheep Keeping for Pleasure and Profit (Hobby Farms) by Sue Weaver Publisher Comments Whether for pleasure or profit, both neophyte and seasoned sheep-keepers will benefit from this helpful advice.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Homegrown Whole Grains: Grow, Harvest, and Cook Your Own Wheat, Barley, Oats, Rice, and More by Sara Pitzer Publisher Comments A backyard field of grains? Yes, absolutely! Wheat and corn are rapidly replacing grass in the yards of dedicated locavores across the country. For adventurous homeowners who want to get in on the movement, Homegrown Whole Grains is the place to begin... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms by Nicolette Hahn Niman Publisher Comments Asked to head up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s environmental organization's "hog campaign," Nicolette Hahn Niman embarked upon a fascinating odyssey through the inner workings of the “factory farm” industry. What she discovered transformed her... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Handbook of Soil Science by M E Sumner Publisher Comments The Handbook of Soil Science provides a thorough understanding of soil science principles and practice. Each subsection includes a description of concepts and theories, definitions, approaches, methodologies and procedures, data in tabular and figure... (read more) List Price $99.00 Your price: $39.98 Sale - Hardcover
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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: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Meat, Modernity, and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies) by Paula Young Lee Publisher Comments Over the course of the nineteenth century, factory slaughterhouses replaced the hand-slaughter of livestock by individual butchers, who often performed this task in back rooms, letting blood run through streets. A wholly modern invention, the centralized... (read more) List Price $56.95 Your price: $18.98 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 $79.00 Your price: $37.00 Sale - Hardcover
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Potato: A History of the Propitious Esculent by John Reader Publisher Comments The potato — humble, lumpy, bland, familiar — is a decidedly unglamorous staple of the dinner table. Or is it? John Reader's narrative on the role of the potato in world history suggests we may be underestimating this remarkable tuber. From... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $13.50 Sale - Hardcover
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