Agriculture
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The Backyard Homestead: Produce All the Food You Need on Just a Quarter Acre!
$18.99 Add to cartThis comprehensive guide to homesteading provides all the information you need to grow and preserve a sustainable harvest of grains and vegetables; raise animals for meat, eggs, and dairy; and keep ho
- Series: Backyard Homestead
- Author: Madigan, Carleen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 11, 2009
- ISBN10: 1603421386
- Language: English
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The Home Creamery: Make Your Own Fresh Dairy Products; Easy Recipes for Butter, Yogurt, Sour Cream, Creme Fraiche, Cream Cheese, Ricotta,
$19.99 Add to cartDiscover how easy it is to make fresh dairy products at home You don’t need a commercial kitchen or specialty ingredients to whip up your own cheeses, yogurts, and spreads. With simple step-by-step i… [more below]
- Author: Farrell-Kingsley, Kathy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1603420312
- Language: English
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The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry
$17.95 Add to cart“Here is a human being speaking with calm and sanity out of the wilderness. We would do well to hear him.” —The Washington Post Book World
The Art of the Commonplace gathers twenty essays by Wendell- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: August 05 2003
- ISBN10: 1593760078
- Language: English
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The Fruits We Eat (New & Updated)
$18.99 Add to cartFrom #1 science writer for kids Gail Gibbons, learn everything about the delicious fruits you eat with this new and updated edition.
Berries, apples, melons, and grapes; oranges, grapefruits, bananas- Author: Gibbons, Gail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 02, 2024
- ISBN10: 0823456846
- Language: English
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The Beekeeper’s Handbook
$29.95 Add to cartDiana Sammataro and Alphonse Avitabile have created the best single-volume guide to the hobby and profession of beekeeping. The Beekeeper’s Handbook provides step-by-step instructions for setting up a
- Author: Sammataro, Diana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 15, 2021
- ISBN10: 1501752618
- Language: English
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Epic Homesteading: Your Guide to Self-Sufficiency on a Modern, High-Tech, Backyard Homestead
$29.99 Add to cartFollowed by millions @epicgardening, Author Kevin Espiritu has built a modern, high-tech homestead on a modest urban lot. In Epic Homesteading, he teaches you how to do the same, wherever you live.
A- Author: Espiritu, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 09, 2024
- ISBN10: 0760383766
- Language: English
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Salad Bar Beef
$35.00 Add to cartIn a day when beef is assailed by many environmental organizations and lauded by fast-food chains, a new paradigm to bring reason to this confusion is in order. With farmers leaving the land in droves
- Author: Salatin, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 01, 1996
- ISBN10: 096381091X
- Language: English
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Electroculture
$16.90 Add to cartIn the 1920s, Justin Christofleau invented a system of electroculture which proved so efficient that it increased crops in considerable proportions (up to 200%) without any chemical fertilizer of any
- Series: Electroculture
- Author: Christofleau, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 92
- Publish Date: September 23, 2016
- ISBN10: 9791096132089
- Language: English
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A Seed Grows
$18.99 Add to cartFrom a tiny seed to a huge, fold-out bloom, the transformative life cycle of a sunflower plays out in this bold read-aloud.
A Sibert Honor Book!
A Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book! To understand how a s- Author: Portis, Antoinette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0823448924
- Language: English
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A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food
$31.00 Add to cart“If I could have one wish it is that every eater in America would read this book.” –Ruth Reichl
From a pioneer of the regenerative agriculture movement, a memoir-meets-manifesto on betting the farm o- Author: Harris, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0593300475
- Language: English
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Pastured Poultry Profits
$35.00 Add to cartA couple working six months per year for 50 hours per week on 20 acres can net $25,000-$30,000 per year with an investment equivalent to the price of one new medium-sized tractor. Seldom has agricultu
- Author: Salatin, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 334
- Publish Date: July 01, 1996
- ISBN10: 0963810901
- Language: English
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Thank a Farmer
$18.95 Add to cartBread, milk, wool, fruits, and vegetables: things that fill our day to day lives. But where, and who, do they come from? Across wheat fields and city rooftop gardens, mushroom beds and maple forests,
- Author: Gianferrari, Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1324015799
- Language: English
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The Encyclopedia of Country Living, 50th Anniversary Edition: The Original Manual for Living Off the Land & Doing It Yourself
$29.95 Add to cartOVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD
The 50th anniversary edition of the original sustainable living manual of basic country skills, preparedness, and wisdom for living off the land.
This essential homesteaders’- Author: Emery, Carla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1632172895
- Language: English
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The Backyard Chicken Keeper’s Bible: Discover Chicken Breeds, Behavior, Coops, Eggs, and More
$40.00 Add to cartThe Backyard Chicken Keeper’s Bible is anexhaustively researched, clearly written, and profusely full-color illustrated book and the essential volume on backyard chicken keeping.
Chickens are many th- Author: Ford, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1419764136
- Language: English
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The Chicken Health Handbook: A Complete Guide to Maximizing Flock Health and Dealing with Disease
$24.95 Add to cartHealthy chickens are happy chickens. This one-of-a-kind reference book covers the health problems that plague chickens of all breeds and ages. Practical charts identify common symptoms and causes of i… [more below]
- Author: Damerow, Gail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: December 29, 2015
- ISBN10: 161212013X
- Language: English
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The Lean Micro Farm: How to Get Small, Embrace Local, Live Better, and Work Less
$34.95 Add to cart“Ben Hartman is a true innovator for the small farm.”–Curtis Stone, author of The Urban Farmer
It’s time to think big about small farms. Award-winning author and “green leader” (Grist) Ben Hartman sh
- Author: Hartman, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 30, 2023
- ISBN10: 1645022048
- Language: English
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How to Speak Chicken: Why Your Chickens Do What They Do & Say What They Say
$17.99 Add to cartBest-selling author Melissa Caughey knows that backyard chickens are like any favorite pet — fun to spend time with and fascinating to observe. Her hours among the flock have resulted in this quirky,
- Author: Caughey, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 28, 2017
- ISBN10: 1612129110
- Language: English
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The Sustainable Homestead: Create a Thriving Permaculture Ecosystem with Your Garden, Animals, and Land
$25.00 Read moreJoin the permaculture revolution! Author Angela Ferraro-Fanning (Axe & Root Homestead) shares techniques and tips for a homestead with synergy between soil, plants, animals, and trees.
If you’re like- Author: Ferraro-Fanning, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0760380481
- Language: English
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The Independent Farmstead: Growing Soil, Biodiversity, and Nutrient-Dense Food with Grassfed Animals and Intensive Pasture Management
$39.95 Add to cartWith in-depth information on electric fencing, watering, and husbandry for ruminants, poultry, and pigs, plus butchering, dairying, and more
“If we work hard, we sleep well.”
Twenty years ago, when au
- Author: Dougherty, Beth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 07, 2016
- ISBN10: 1603586229
- Language: English
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Polyface Micro: Success with Livestock on a Homestead Scale
$35.00 Add to cart“I love your ideas, but I only have a few acres. How do I do this at my scale?”
Success with domestic livestock does not require large land bases. Joel Salatin and his family’s Polyface Farm in Virgi
- Author: Salatin, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1733686622
- Language: English
