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Foxfire 7 (Foxfire) by Paul F Gillespie Publisher Comments The seventh Foxfire volume presents traditions of mountain religious heritage, covering ministers, revivals, baptisms, gospel-singing, faith healing, camp meetings, snake handling, and more.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Foxfire 3 (Foxfire) by Eliot Wigginton Publisher Comments Volume 3 of this series covers animal care, banjos and dulcimers, wild plant foods, butter churns, ginseng and more.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Foxfire #02: Foxfire 2 by Eliot Wigginton Publisher Comments This second Foxfire volume includes topics such as ghost stories, spinning and weaving, wagon making, midwifing, corn shuckin', and more.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter Staff Pick If you've ever dabbled in community gardening or thought to yourself, "I could raise chickens!" then Farm City is a must read. Novella Carpenter brings heart and humor to her story of inner-city gardening.... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening without Boundaries by Richard Reynolds Publisher Comments When Richard Reynolds began planting flowers secretly at night outside his tower block in South London he had no idea he was part of a growing global movement committed to combating the forces of neglect, land shortage and apathy towards public spaces... (read more) List Price $25.99 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Keep Chickens!: Tending Small Flocks in Cities, Suburbs, and other Small Spaces 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) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Epitaph for a Peach : Four Seasons on My Family Farm (95 Edition) by David Mas Masumoto Publisher Comments As pleasurable as a perfect peach, Epitaph for a Peach tells the passionate story of one farmer's attempt to rescue one of the last truly sweet and juicy fruits from becoming obsolete in a world that increasingly values commerciality over quality. The... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Arms Kalish Publisher Comments I tell of a time, a place, and a way of life long gone. For many years I have had the urge to describe that treasure trove, lest it vanish forever. So, partly in response to the basic human instinct to share feelings and experiences, and partly for the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Storey's Barn Guide to Sheep by Storey Publisher Comments For all the times you need a helping hand in the barn, "Storey's Barn Guide to Sheep" provides visual, step-by-step explanations of the basic procedures of keeping sheep. Complete with a unique rotating calendar to help plan your lambing season, an... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Spiral
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Fruitless Fall: The Collapse of the Honey Bee and the Coming Agricultural Crisis by Rowan Jacobsen Publisher Comments How the disappearance of the worlds honeybee population puts the food we eat at risk. Many people will remember that Rachel Carson predicted a silent spring, but she also warned of a fruitless fall, a time when “there was no pollination and there... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Living with Chickens: Everything You Need to Know to Raise Your Own Backyard Flock by Jay Rossier Publisher Comments Chickens - why not? Tens of thousands of people in all areas of the country enjoy raising these birds, whether for food or companionship. Of course, you may want to read Living With Chickens just for the sheer joy of it. Straightforward prose and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Robbing the Bees: A Biography of Honey: The Sweet Liquid Gold That Seduced the World by Holley Bishop Publisher Comments "Honey has been waiting almost ten million years for a good biography," writes Holley Bishop. Bees have been making this food on Earth for hundreds of millennia, but we humans started recording our fascination with it only in the past few thousand years... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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The American farm tractor :a history of the classic tractor by Randy Leffingwell Publisher Comments This is the first complete chronicle depicting the classic American farm tractor. Featuring over 200 extraordinary color photographs of famous and obscure makes like John Deere, Ford, Waterloo Boy, Best, and more. Each is brought to life in accurate... (read more) List Price $19.98 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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A Field Guide to Cows: How to Identify and Appreciate America's 52 Breeds by John Pukite Publisher Comments Informative, amazing, and amusing, this indispensable guide provides facts on America's 52 breeds of cattle.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - 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: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Honeybee: From Hive to Home, Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper by C. Marina Marchese Publisher Comments One woman's charming and personal account of abandoning the rat race to live blissfully as a beekeeper and honey entrepreneur-plus everything you'd ever want to know about bees. Ten years ago, Marina Marchese fell in love with bees during a tour of a... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Sheep, Everything about Housing, Care, Feeding, and Sicknesses: A Pet Owner's Manual by Hans Muller Publisher Comments What every breeder, farmer and hobbyist needs to know about caring for sheep, including how to meet all health needs. There are even tips on how to process a sheep's wool! Nearly ten pages of color photos, plus many black-and-white drawings.... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Pack Goat by John Mionczynski Publisher Comments This comprehensive guide presents everything a potential packer needs to know. "I would highly recommend the book to anyone, whether or not they are interested in goat packing; it is simply fun to read."... (read more) Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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On Good Land: The Autobiography of an Urban Farm by Michael Ableman Publisher Comments In the heart of suburban Santa Barbara, where land is pricey and a field is worth more covered with asphalt than arugula, asparagus, and apple trees, thrives Fairview Gardens, a small organic farm managed for the past 18 years by Michael Ableman. On Good... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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This Common Ground: Seasons on an Organic Farm by Scott Chaskey Publisher Comments Since 1990, Scott Chaskey has worked as a land steward and farmer for the Peconic Land Trust at Quail Hill Farm in Amagansett, New York, an organic community farm. Over the years, he has recorded his meditations on weather, wildlife, soil, seed, root... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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