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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) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Coop: A Family, a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg (P.S.) by Michael Perry Staff Pick Coop is perfect for anyone dreaming of a "simple" life in the country — and for those already living it. Perry is a brilliant storyteller, and this is a funny and poignant account of his unorthodox childhood and his current quest for some cred as a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Complete Modern Blacksmith by Alexander G Weygers Publisher Comments A truly unusual and unique resource, this extremely hands-on book brings together three popular but long-out-of-print classics (THE MODERN BLACKSMITH; THE RECYCLING, USE, AND REPAIR OF TOOLS; and THE MAKING OF TOOLS) essential for anyone interested in... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - 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: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Chick Days: An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Raising Chickens from Hatchlings to Laying Hens by Jenna Woginrich Staff Pick Chick Days is a welcome addition to the ever-growing flock of chicken-keeping guides. In it, Jenna Woginrich, accomplished blogger and author of Made from Scratch, provides an accessible and entertaining overview of backyard chicken keeping, covering... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - 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: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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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: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens by Gail Damerow Publisher Comments Expert advice on selecting breeds, caring for chicks, producing eggs, raising broilers, feeding, troubleshooting, and much more.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Grow More Vegetables: Than You Ever Throught Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine by John Jeavons Publisher Comments A classic in the field of sustainable gardening, HOW TO GROW MORE VEGETABLES shows how to produce a beautiful organic garden with minimal watering and care, whether it's just a few tomatoes in a tiny backyard or enough food to feed a family of four on... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Life Is a Miracle : an Essay Against Modern Superstition (00 Edition) by Wendell Berry Publisher Comments In "Life Is a Miracle", the devotion of science to the quantitative and reductionist world is measured against the mysterious, qualitative suggestions of religion and art. Berry sees life as the collision of these separate forces, but without all three... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start and Succeed in a Farm Enterprise by Joel Salatin Publisher Comments Have you ever desired, deep within your soul, to make a comfortable full-time living from a farming enterprise? Too often people dare not even vocalize this desire because it seems absurd. It's like thinking the unthinkable.After all, the farm population... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Chickens in Your Backyard: A Beginner's Guide by Rick Luttmann Publisher Comments CHICKENS IN YOUR BACKYARD A BEGINNER'S GUIDE Rick and Gail Luttmann Your backyard can be the source of the best eggs and meat you've ever tasted. The answer is chickens-- endearing birds that require but a modest outlay of time, space and food. As they... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - 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: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter Publisher Comments Urban and rural collide in this wry, inspiring memoir of a woman who turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farm. Novella Carpenter loves cities — the culture, the crowds, the energy. At the same time, she can't shake the fact... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Good Food Revolution: Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities by Will Allen Publisher Comments A pioneering urban farmer and MacArthur “Genius Award” winner points the way to building a new food system that can feed—and heal—broken communities. The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen had no intention of ever becoming a farmer... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Foxfire 5 (Foxfire) by Eliot Wigginton Publisher Comments The fifth Foxfire volume includes rain-making, blacksmithing, bear hunting, flintlock rifles, and more.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith H by Eliot Wigginton Publisher Comments Interviews and essays describe the way of life and crafts of pioneer America still surviving in the Appalachian region.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression by Mildred Armstrong Kalish Staff Pick Those of us who feel like we're "just getting by" will be both humbled and inspired by Kalish's tales of life on an Iowa farm during the Great Depression. Her humorous and heart-warming depiction of a childhood spent working the land and, in doing so... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Earth Ponds the Country Pond Makers 2ND Edition by Tim Matson Publisher Comments What else can simultaneously increase your aesthetic pleasure, offer recreational opportunities, help the environment, and increase the value of your land? This is the recognized standard on ponds, now expanded to include a comprehensive guide to living... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Animal Housing Handbook: 35 Building Plans for Hutches, Coops, Pens, Small Barns, and Other Barnyard Structures by Carol Ekarius Publisher Comments Cows and horses, donkeys and mules, sheep and goats, pigs and fowl, even llamas are living on small farms and in backyard barnyards throughout the United States. But how and where are these critters being housed? Author Carol Ekarius knows. In How to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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