Growing Trees & Shrubs Indoors
Grow trees and shrubs indoors to beautify and purify your home! Find out all the tips and tricks you need to help them …
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So You Want to Be a Modern Homesteader?
All the Dirt on Living the Good Life
The “look before you leap” guide to the joys and pitfalls of the rural good life.
Dreams of self-sufficiency, independence, and tranquility continue to pull in a new generation of modern homesteaders. While growing your own food and being in …
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Raising Goats Naturally, 2nd Edition
The Complete Guide to Milk, Meat, and More
Produce your own milk, cheese, meat, fiber, fertilizer, and more
Incorporating dairy goats into a diversified homestead can be the key to greater greater self-sufficiency. Responding to questions and concerns from readers from all over North America …
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The Frugal Homesteader
Living the Good Life on Less
Foreword by Joel Salatin
Achieve your back-to-the-land dreams without breaking the bank
Build your homesteading dreams with all the affordable DIY innovations, tips, and stories you need to successfully launch you on a path to self-sufficiency. Raise …
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Building Natural Ponds
Create a Clean, Algae-free Pond without Pumps, Filters, or Chemicals
Typical backyard ponds are a complicated mess of pipes, pumps, filters, and nasty chemicals designed to adjust pH and keep algae at bay. Hardly the bucolic, natural ecosystem beloved by dragonflies, frogs, and songbirds.
The antidote is a natural …
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The Permaculture Market Garden
A visual guide to a profitable whole-systems farm business
Full colour photos and illustrations
Permaculture tends to be very much in the domain of home gardeners and property owners. But what if we could take it all a step further, and merge the fields of permaculture and market gardening?
In The …
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The Scything Handbook
Learn How to Cut Grass, Mow Meadows and Harvest Grain with a Scythe
Dreading the weekly lawn mow? Need to whack the weeds in your orchard? Cringing at the drudgery and incessant blare of the mower? Imagine instead long sweeps of an elegant scythe cutting your grass and pesky weeds in blissful, meditative silence.
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The Year-Round Solar Greenhouse
How to Design and Build a Net-Zero Energy Greenhouse
Fresh, local nutrient-dense fruits vegetables are hard to find in winter in cold climates. Growing warm-weather crops like tomatoes, bananas, avocados, and other perennials is nearly impossible using conventional structures. The solution for …
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The Permaculture Transition Manual
A Comprehensive Guide to Resilient Living
Caught between climate change and a fossil fuel-driven economy that demands ever more growth, the world faces a great transition—by design or disaster—away from fossil fuels to a less energy intensive future.
But what proven tools are available …
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