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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) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper 
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The Homesteading Handbook: A Back to Basics Guide to Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herb (Back to Basics Guides) by Abigail R Gehring Publisher Comments With the rapid depletion of our planet's natural resources, we would all like to live a more self-sufficient lifestyle. But in the midst of an economic crisis, it's just as important to save money as it is to go green. As Gehring shows in this thorough... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery Publisher Comments The bible of sustainable living, food gardening, and living green, no home is complete without this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia! For more than thirty years, people have relied on the thousands of recipes, detailed how-to instructions, and personal advice... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life by Jenna Woginrich Staff Pick Jenna Woginrich's Made from Scratch is charming, practical, eye-opening, and empowering. From beekeeping to butter churning, it's a wonderful primer, and Woginrich's enthusiasm and humor are inspiring. Plus, she's definitely convinced me to get some... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.50 Sale - Hardcover
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The Back to Basics Handbook: A Guide to Buying and Working Land, Raising Livestock, Enjoying Your Harvest, Household Skills and Crafts, and More (Back to Basics Guides) by Abigail R Gehring Publisher Comments Anyone who wants to learn basic living skills--the kind employed by our forefathers--and adapt them for a better life in the twenty-first century need look no further than this eminently useful, full-color guide. With hundreds of projects, step-by-step... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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This Life Is in Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, and a Family Undone by Melissa Coleman Publisher Comments Set on a rugged coastal homestead during the 1970s, This Life Is in Your Hands introduces a superb young writer driven by the need to uncover the truth of a childhood tragedy and connect anew with the beauty and vitality of the back-to-the-land ideal... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Sepp Holzer's Permaculture: A Practical Guide to Small-Scale, Integrative Farming and Gardening--With Information on Mushroom Cultivation, Sowing by Sepp Holzer Publisher Comments Sepp Holzer farms steep mountainsides in Austria 1,500 meters above sea level. His farm is an intricate network of terraces, raised beds, ponds, waterways and tracks, well covered with productive fruit trees and other vegetation, with the farmhouse... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Urban Farm Handbook: City-Slicker Resources for Growing, Raising, Sourcing, Trading, and Preparing What You Eat by Annette Cottrell Publisher Comments Is that...a goat in your garage? It might be if you've been reading The Urban Farm Handbook: City-Slicker Resources for Growing, Raising, Sourcing, Trading, and Preparing What You Eat. In this comprehensive guide for city-dwellers on how to wean... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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Solviva: How to Grow $500,000 on One Acre and Peace on Earth: Learning the Art of Living with Solar-Dynamic, Bio-Benign Design by Anna Edey Staff Pick Your price: $35.00 New - Trade Paper
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Change Comes to Dinner: How Vertical Farmers, Urban Growers, and Other Innovators Are Revolutionizing How America Eats by Katherine Gustafson Publisher Comments A fascinating exploration of Americas food innovators, that gives us hopeful alternatives to the industrial food system described in works like Michael Pollans bestselling Omnivores Dilemma Change Comes to Dinner takes readers into the farms, markets... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Barefoot Architect by Johan Van Lengen Synopsis A former U.N. worker and prominent architect clearly explains every aspect of taking a greener approach to housing in impoverished tropical climates--including design, materials, and implementation. Hundreds of explanatory drawings by van Lengen allow... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Homesteading: A Backyard Guide to Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Medicine, and More by Abigail R. Gehring Publisher Comments Who doesn't want to shrink their carbon footprint, save money, and eat homegrown food whenever possible? Even readers who are very much on the grid will embrace this large, fully-illustrated guide on the basics of living the good, clean life. It's... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture by Wes Jackson Synopsis Locavore leaders such as Alice Waters, Michael Pollan, and Barbara Kingsolver all speak of the need for sweeping changes in how we get our food. A longtime leader of this movement is Wes Jackson, who for decades has taken it upon himself to speak for the... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Homesweet Homegrown: How to Grow, Make and Store Food, No Matter Where You Live by Robyn Jasko and Jennifer Biggs Staff Pick Just as a small plot of land can yield a bountiful harvest, this unassuming little book packs quite a punch. Jasko's friendly, informative, and unfussy instructions cover all the basics of growing, preparing, and preserving your own food, while Biggs's... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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Civic Agriculture : Reconnecting Farm, Food, and Community (04 Edition) by Thomas A. Lyson Publisher Comments A engaging analysis of food production in the United States emphasizing that sustainable agricultural development is important to community health.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind by Gene Logsdon Publisher Comments In his insightful new book, Holy Shit: Managing Manure to Save Mankind, contrary farmer Gene Logsdon provides the inside story of manure-our greatest, yet most misunderstood, natural resource. He begins by lamenting a modern society that not only throws... (read more) Your price: $17.50 New - Trade Paper
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Barnheart: The Incurable Longing for a Farm of One 's Own by Jenna Woginrich Publisher Comments Symptoms of Acute Barnheart: Endless hours spent baking bread, studying chicken coop plans, gathering eggs, browsing seed catalogs, weeding the vegetable garden, attending sheepdog trials, dreaming about heritage-breed livestock, and longing incessantly... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre by Brett L. Markham Publisher Comments Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average family's food on just a quarter acre--and earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Beyond Civilization : Humanity's Next Great Adventure (99 Edition) by Daniel Quinn Publisher Comments In Beyond Civilization, Daniel Quinn thinks the unthinkable. We all know there's no one right way to build a bicycle, no one right way to design an automobile, no one right way to make a pair of shoes, but we're convinced that there must be only one... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Basics of Permaculture Design (05 Edition) by Ross Mars Publisher Comments The Basics of Permaculture Design, first published in Australia in 1996, is an excellent introduction to the principles of permaculture, design processes, and the tools needed for designing sustainable gardens, farms, and larger communities.Packed with... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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