#paperback #pigs #farming #homestead #homesteading #animals #kellogg #orangebook

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Maine

Everything the home hog-raiser needs to know, with innovative ideas and insights gained through years of experience.

Raising Pigs Successfully

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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

With a two-year-old son and no husband, Angelica was the object of the townspeople's scorn--and of Devlin's desire. She wanted a man to give her respectability once she reached her new homestead in Washington, and after one earth-shattering kiss, Devlin was ready to prove he was all the man she would ever need.

Devlin's Promise

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Michigan

A Year of Food Life

Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat. "As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt, one carload of us paddled against the tide, heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the adventure of realigning our lives with our food chain. "Naturally, our first stop was to buy junk food and fossil fuel. . . ." Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck, Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants, en route to a food culture that's better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet. "This is the story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew . . . and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked, went to school, loved our neighbors, drank the water, and breathed the air."

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

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#hardcover #pioneer #history #Kansas #homestead 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Indiana

History

Voices from the Kansas front

Pioneer Women

#paperback #novel #storytelling #family #20thcentury #rurallife #fiction #homestead #Wales #familyfiction

Georgia

A Novel

A complex family with a tortured secret, the Hamers live on a large homestead in Radnorshire, Wales. Idris, the unbending patriarch and tyrant of the family, is a man suspicious of any change. Etty, his indomitable wife, is a woman born into a world unequipped to deal with her. Oliver, their only son, is a junior boxing champion turned hellraising local legend. A novel concerned both with the huge changes of 20th-century rural life, and that life in its eternal details.

Addlands

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Oregon

#paperback #nonfiction #alaska #biography #wilderness #nature #homestead #adventure

Washington

An Alaskan Odyssey

Shares the experience of living alone in the Alaskan wilderness

One Man's Wilderness

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#simpleliving #hardcover #nonfiction #gradening #homestead

Illinois

Illustrated Guide to Gardening

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Jennifer Megyesi

Geoff Hansen

Inside cover has written inscription for previous owner; pp38-39 have some marks. 

Missouri

The Ultimate Guide to Raising Poultry for Fun or Profit

Finally backyard farmers who want to keep a few hens for eggs have a bible that's attractive enough to leave out on the coffee table, and inexpensive enough to purchase on a whim. This comprehensive guide, written in charming prose from the perspective of an organic farmer, will appeal to readers who are interested in raising chickens, or simply want the best knowledge about how to cook them. With this in mind, farmer and animal expert Jennifer Megyesi discusses all the basic details of raising the birds--general biology, health, food, choosing breeds, and so on--and she cuts through the smoke to identify what terms like "organic," "free-range," and so on really mean for poultry farmers and consumers.

No chicken book would be complete without information on how to show chickens for prizes, and this is no different, but The Joy of Keeping Chickens also stresses the importance of self-sustainability and organic living, and the satisfaction of keeping heirloom breeds. Readers will appreciate the comprehensive nature of this readable, informative guide, and Megyesi's enthusiasm about keeping chickens. Coupled with Geoff Hansen's gorgeous full-color photographs, this text makes for an instant classic in the category.

The Joy of Keeping Chickens

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Jean Aspen

California

Fulfilling the Dream

In 1992 Jean Aspen and her husband, Tom, took their young son to live in Alaska's interior wilderness, building a cabin out of logs, hunting for food, and letting the vast, harsh beauty of the Arctic close in around them. While Jean had faced Alaska's wilderness before -- in a life-altering experience she chronicled in Arctic Daughter -- this journey would be different. Dogged by sickness and hardships, cut off from the rest of the world, her family faced not only a test of endurance, but of its own well-being and survival.... From a daily struggle against the elements to an encounter with a grizzly bear at arm's length, from moments of breathtaking beauty and self-realization to a harrowing, six-hundred-mile river passage back to civilization, Arctic Son chronicles fourteen remarkable months in the Arctic. At once a portrait of courage and a heart-pounding adventure story, Arctic Son portrays a family's extraordinary journey into America's last frontier.

Arctic Son

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Kim Pezza

Your Backyard Farming Experience Begins Here!

Make beekeeping a part of your backyard farming experience: enjoy honey, beeswax and a more fruitful garden, as your bees will work as hard as you do to make your backyard farm a success!

Backyard Farming: Keeping Honey Bees is your guide to successfully caring for your hive. As a comprehensive primer for first-time beekeepers, Keeping Honey Bees includes detailed illustrations and informative photographs that help to ease new homesteaders into the world of backyard beekeeping.

Keeping Honey Bees takes you from start to finish: from planning out your bees’ space in the yard and constructing/installing your hives, to feeding and nurturing your new colony, to enjoying your very own golden honey and more.

With Keeping Honey Bees, you will:
• Learn the proper use of the equipment necessary to make your beekeeping a success
• Construct the perfect apiary to minimize your workload and ensure a productive colony
• Gather honey and beeswax for profit, or to include in your own self-sufficiency plan
• Use the freshest, fullest honey possible in a variety of delicious recipes
…and many more tips and tricks from experienced farmers to help you avoid the most common pitfalls you might encounter.
 
Keeping Honey Bees is your first big step to joining the growing movement of homemakers and homesteaders looking to make a return to a healthier, happier way of life—and it starts right in your own backyard.

Backyard Farming is a series of easy-to-use guides to help urban, suburban, and rural dwellers turn their homes into homesteads. Whether planning to grow food for the family or for sale at the local farmers market, Backyard Farming provides simple instruction and essential information in a convenient reference.

Texas

From Hive Management to Honey Harvesting and More

Your Backyard Farming Experience Begins Here! Make beekeeping a part of your backyard farming experience: enjoy honey, beeswax and a more fruitful garden, as your bees will work as hard as you do to make your backyard farm a success! Backyard Farming: Keeping Honey Bees is your guide to successfully caring for your hive. As a comprehensive primer for first-time beekeepers, Keeping Honey Bees includes detailed illustrations and informative photographs that help to ease new homesteaders into the world of backyard beekeeping. Keeping Honey Bees takes you from start to finish: from planning out your bees’ space in the yard and constructing/installing your hives, to feeding and nurturing your new colony, to enjoying your very own golden honey and more. With Keeping Honey Bees, you will: • Learn the proper use of the equipment necessary to make your beekeeping a success • Construct the perfect apiary to minimize your workload and ensure a productive colony • Gather honey and beeswax for profit, or to include in your own self-sufficiency plan • Use the freshest, fullest honey possible in a variety of delicious recipes …and many more tips and tricks from experienced farmers to help you avoid the most common pitfalls you might encounter. Keeping Honey Bees is your first big step to joining the growing movement of homemakers and homesteaders looking to make a return to a healthier, happier way of life—and it starts right in your own backyard. Backyard Farming is a series of easy-to-use guides to help urban, suburban, and rural dwellers turn their homes into homesteads. Whether planning to grow food for the family or for sale at the local farmers market, Backyard Farming provides simple instruction and essential information in a convenient reference.

Backyard Farming: Keeping Honey Bees

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C. Hollon

Includes an excerpt from the author's "Down in flames."

Still Knife Painting

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New York

Minnesota

A young Norwegian immigrant girl works hard for her young brother and the land at the expense of everything else

O Pioneers!

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From the Back Cover
Ducks are the homeowner's friends.

They will:

* Eat Japanese beetles, grasshoppers, snails, slugs and mosquitoes.

* Clean unwanted plants from ponds and lakes.

* Eat up all table and gardening leftovers.

* Produce an abundance of valuable nitrogen-rich manure.

* And most important, provide you with low-cost meat and eggs.

Ducks are the easiest domestic birds to raise. They'll forage for much of their food, and they don't need to be pampered with expensive housing. You don't need a pond for them either, although these friendly birds certainly look beautiful swimming on one.

Dave Holderread has written Raising the Home Duck Flock for persons who want to raise ducks but don't know how to get started. Here is the answer. He explains how many ducks you should have for various conditions, which breeds may be best for you, where and how to buy them.

Dave doesn't leave you on your own after you've bought those ducks. His helpful material begins with incubation of eggs, covers how to rear ducklings and manage the adults, explains possible health problems and how to control them, and tells how to butcher the ducks -- with recipes for both the meat and the eggs, and practical suggestions on the use of the feathers and down.

Dave has raised ducks since his boyhood days, and he's taught hundreds in this country and Puerto Rico through vocational poultry programs. He knows his ducks, and he knows how to teach his subject.

Product Description
Explains how to select ducks, rear ducklings, feed and provide health care for them, as well as the characteristics of various breeds
About the Author
Dave Holderread has raised and studied ducks for 50 years. He taught applied poultry science in Puerto Rico before he and his wife established one of the largest genetic stocks of domestic waterfowl in the world on their farm in Oregon. Their ducks have won numerous championships at regional, national, and international shows. #duck #farming #self-sufficiency #homestead #ducklings #howto #reference  

Ducks are the homeowner's friends.

They will:

* Eat Japanese beetles, grasshoppers, snails, slugs and mosquitoes.

* Clean unwanted plants from ponds and lakes.

* Eat up all table and gardening leftovers.

* Produce an abundance of valuable nitrogen-rich manure.

* And most important, provide you with low-cost meat and eggs.

Ducks are the easiest domestic birds to raise. They'll forage for much of their food, and they don't need to be pampered with expensive housing. You don't need a pond for them either, although these friendly birds certainly look beautiful swimming on one.

Dave Holderread has written Raising the Home Duck Flock for persons who want to raise ducks but don't know how to get started. Here is the answer. He explains how many ducks you should have for various conditions, which breeds may be best for you, where and how to buy them.

Dave doesn't leave you on your own after you've bought those ducks. His helpful material begins with incubation of eggs, covers how to rear ducklings and manage the adults, explains possible health problems and how to control them, and tells how to butcher the ducks -- with recipes for both the meat and the eggs, and practical suggestions on the use of the feathers and down.

Dave has raised ducks since his boyhood days, and he's taught hundreds in this country and Puerto Rico through vocational poultry programs. He knows his ducks, and he knows how to teach his subject.

Raising the Home Duck Flock

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Mel Bartholomew

John Hamel

Minimal wear. Light soil in page edge. Smoke free home.

A New Way to Garden in Less Space with Less Work

Details a simple yet highly effective gardening system, based on a grid of one-foot by one-foot squares, that produces big yields with less space and with less work than with conventional row gardens

Square Foot Gardening

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Georgia Pellegrini

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

More Than 150 Recipes, Projects, and Skills for a Self-Sufficient Life

A cookbook and backyard gardening and homesteading guide for women who want to grow food efficiently, cook seasonal recipes, or even try foraging, camping, and living off the land.

Self-sufficiency is the ultimate girl power
 
Georgia Pellegrini, outdoor adventurer and chef, helps you roll up your sleeves and tap into your pioneer spirit. Grow a small-space garden and preserve a little deliciousness for the cold months; assemble the makings of a self-sufficient pantry; learn to navigate without a compass for your next camping trip; or even forage for plants that give you energy.

Whether you're a full-time homesteader, a weekend farmer's market devoté, or anyone looking to do more by hand, this overflowing resource will help you hone new skills in the kitchen, garden, and great outdoors. It includes:

· More than 100 recipes for garden-to-table dishes, preserves, and cured foods
· Small-space gardening advice on building a raised bed, choosing what to grow, and saving seeds
· DIY projects, such as Mason jar lanterns and homemade notecards
· Superwoman skills like assembling a 48- hour survival toolkit in an Altoids tin
 
Packed with beautiful photographs and illustrations, Modern Pioneering proves that becoming more self-sufficient not only means being empowered, but also having a lot more fun.

Modern Pioneering

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A Seasonal Life, a Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese

Goat Song is the story of a year in the life of a couple who abandoned their one-bedroom apartment in New York City to live on seventy-five acres in Vermont and raise Nubian goats. In poetic, reverent detail, Brad Kessler explores our ancient relationship to the land and our gradual alienation from the animals that feed us. His fascinating account traces his journey of choosing the goats and learning how to breed, milk, and care for them. As Kessler begins to live the life of a herder, he encounters the pastoral roots of so many aspects of Western culture--how our diet, our alphabet, our religions, poetry, and economy all grew out of a pastoralist setting, a life lived among hoofed animals.

Goat Song

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Lewis Hill

A guide to growing fruits and berries in all parts of the country includes advice on which varieties to plant, how to plant, care for, and harvest them, and how to store and use them

Fruits and Berries for the Home Garden

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Idaho

Bought with the intention that we would keep bees but, sadly, our current living situation doesn’t currently accommodate bees. Book is basically brand new. Pages are all color and the information is invaluable. #bees #beekeeping #farm #homestead #information #selfhelp #farming #color #bee #honeybees 

Beekeeping is a diverse activity in which many people become absorbed, enjoying the systematic and often hard physical work of securing good honey crops or collecting beeswax. This lively book covers how to get started, how to achieve and collect good harvests, troubleshooting and more.

Keeping Bees

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Clint Emerson

Alaska

The Modern Guide to Self-Reliance: a Survival Guide

A modern guide to self-sufficiency, homesteading, and building an independent life, from New York Times bestselling author, retired Navy SEAL, and survival skills expert Clint Emerson.

Clint Emerson is the go-to-expert for surviving the first minutes, hours, and days of a crisis. Now, in The Rugged Life, he moves beyond mere survival to explain how to thrive over the long-term-for months, years, or even a lifetime, by being self-reliant. And it starts with learning how to be a modern homesteader.

Modern homesteading applies purposeful living and pioneering knowhow (efficient home building, gardening, raising animals, hunting, being handy, situational awareness) to the challenges of today. It's about pushing yourself a little (or a lot). Whether you decide to farm your own food and use waste from your toilet for compost, or retro-fit your home with solar and keep a chicken coop in the backyard or simply grow the salad for your dinner from your windowsill garden in a city, it's up to you. You can homestead and a live a rugged life in a suburb or in the middle of your twenty-acre sanctuary. It's all on the same spectrum.

With hundreds of step-by-step illustrated pioneering skills and projects, The Rugged Life is for everyone who feels they can use more adventure, freedom, and choice in their lives and is ready to get out of their comfort zone and try new, hard things. Taking on the Rugged Life means thinking about how you want to live and what you want for your family-and then being curious, confident, and committed enough to take on whatever is thrown at you.

The Rugged Life

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Gail Damerow

Breed Selection, Facilities, Feeding, Health Care, Managing Layers and Meat Birds

Serious poultry farmers and backyard bird raisers have relied on this best-selling reference for more than 20 years. The fourth edition of Gail Damerow's comprehensive handbook is now completely revised and redesigned, making it more accessible and informative than ever. You'll get the most up-to-date details on shelter, food, health care, eggs, chicks, and meat, and recent research into chicken behavior and communication makes the sections on flock management truly authoritative. New color photos and illustrations provide more specificity and information about chicken breeds, anatomy, and health.

Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, 4th Edition

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Barbara Kern

Ken Kern

Homesteading is small-scale intensive farming. Since 1970 a surge in the homesteading movement has taken place, and as countless city and suburb dwellers seek self-sufficiency in the rural life, the need for an up-to-date and comprehensive manual has become apparent.

 Written in simple and direct language, The Owner-Built Homestead contains volumes of information about the various aspects of settling and farming the land, including vegetable gardening, raising animals, maintaining a fish pond, harvesting trees, and building a greenhouse. The book encourages the postmodern way of country living, a life of self-reliance and at least partial economic self-sufficiency, and will appeal not only to agrarians and full-time homesteaders, but to backyard gardeners, weekend country folk, and city-bound ecologist as well. 

The book begins with a discussion of the frame of mind essential to successful homesteading, and there follow over 20 chapters, fully illustrated, of directions and advice for organized, sensible farming operations. The subjects includes selecting and laying out a homestead site, with instructions for building roads, fences, a shop, and a pit greenhouse; developing and managing water and soil resources; planting crops (sod, forage, and hay, as well as row crops); tree and woodland production; and fish care, including how to use animal products; sanitation; and finally solid and important information about nutrition.

 Believing in the enduring value of the homestead way of life, Ken and Barbara Kern share their own experiences in a book that can be put to good use by anyone who shares their belief.

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Raising Pigs Successfully

Robin Lee Hatcher

Devlin's Promise

Barbara Kingsolver; Camille Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Joanna L. Stratton

Pioneer Women

Tom Bullough

Addlands

Barbara Kingsolver; Camille Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Sam Keith; Richard Proenneke

One Man's Wilderness

Reader's Digest Editors

Illustrated Guide to Gardening

Jennifer Megyesi; Geoff Hansen

The Joy of Keeping Chickens

Jean Aspen

Arctic Son

Kim Pezza

Backyard Farming: Keeping Honey Bees

C. Hollon

Still Knife Painting

Barbara Kingsolver; Camille Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Willa Cather

O Pioneers!

Dave Holderread

Raising the Home Duck Flock

Mel Bartholomew; John Hamel

Square Foot Gardening

Georgia Pellegrini

Modern Pioneering

Brad Kessler

Goat Song

Lewis Hill

Fruits and Berries for the Home Garden

Barbara Kingsolver; Camille Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

Pam Gregory; Claire Waring; Paul Peacock (Foreword by)

Keeping Bees

Clint Emerson

The Rugged Life

Gail Damerow

Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens, 4th Edition

Barbara Kern; Ken Kern

The Owner Built Homestead