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Four-Season Harvest: How to Harvest Fresh Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long by Eliot Coleman Publisher Comments If you love the joys of eating home-garden vegetables but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Eliot Coleman introduces the surprising fact that most of the United States has more winter sunshine than the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Food Not Lawns: How to Turn Your Yard Into a Garden and Your Neighborhood Into a Community by H C Flores Publisher Comments Gardening can be a political act. Creativity, fulfillment, connection, revolution--it all begins when we get our hands in the dirt. Food Not Lawns combines practical wisdom on ecological design and community-building with a fresh, green perspective on an... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Preserving Food Without Freezing or Canning: Old World Techniques and Recipes by Gardeners And Farmers Of Centre Terr Publisher Comments Typical books about preserving garden produce nearly always assume that modern "kitchen gardeners" will boil or freeze their vegetables and fruits. Yet here is a book that goes back to the future—celebrating traditional but little-known French... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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Fresh Food from Small Spaces: The Square-Inch Gardener's Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting by R J Ruppenthal Publisher Comments Books on container gardening have been wildly popular with urban and suburban readers, but until now, there has been no comprehensive "how-to" guide for growing fresh food in the absence of open land. Fresh Food from Small Spaces fills the gap as a... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Inquiries Into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as If Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered by Woody Tasch Publisher Comments We must bring money back down to earth. Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money presents the path for bringing money back down to earth philosophically, strategically and pragmatically, and with an entrepreneurial spirit that is informed by... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability, and Surviving the Long Emergency by Matthew Stein Publisher Comments There's never been a better time to "be prepared." Matthew Stein's comprehensive primer on sustainable living skills--from food and water to shelter and energy to first-aid and crisis-management skills--prepares you to embark on the path toward... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mortgage Free!: Innovative Strategies for Debt Free Home Ownership by Robert L. Roy Publisher Comments As a wave of foreclosures sweeps the country, many people are giving up hope for owning a home of their own. They have good reason to turn their backs on the banks, but not on their dreams. In this revised edition of Mortgage Free!, Rob Roy offers a... (read more) Your price: $29.00 New - Mass Market
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Finding the Sweet Spot: The Natural Entrepreneur's Guide to Responsible, Sustainable, Joyful Work by Dave Pollard Publisher Comments "Now what am I going to do?" is a question many people ask and leave unanswered at critical potential turning points in their careers. Perhaps you're a new graduate, but instead of lining up for a boring entry-level job at a big... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Carbon-Free Home: Thirty-Six Remodeling Projects to Help Kick the Fossil-Fuel Habit by Stephen Hren and Rebekah Hren Publisher Comments You've read the stories and watched the documentaries. So you're convinced burning fossil fuels leads to global climate change; supplies of fossil fuels are diminishing in quantity and increasing in price. You've fretted and worried, but still go... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $8.50 Sale - Trade Paper
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Transition Handbook: From Oil Dependency To Local Resilience (08 Edition) by Rob Hopkins Publisher Comments We live in an oil-dependent world, arriving at this level of dependency in a very short space of time by treating petroleum as if it were in infinite supply. Most of us avoid thinking about what happens when oil runs out (or becomes prohibitively... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture, Revised and Expanded by Elizabeth Henderson and Robyn Van En and Joan Dye Gussow Publisher Comments In Sharing the Harvest, the authors lay out the basic tenets of CSA, provide useful information for both farmers and consumers on starting and running a successful community farm project, and describe hundreds of useful strategies that have worked (or... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Trade Paper
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