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The Encyclopedia
of Country Living: This definitive classic on food,
gardening, and self-sufficient living is a complete resource
for living off the land with over 800 pages of collected
wisdom from country expert, Carla Emery--how to cultivate
a garden, buy land, bake bread, raise farm animals, make
sausage, milk a goat, grow herbs, churn butter, make soap,
work with bees and more. An absolutely essential book. |
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Self
Sufficient Life And How To Live It: The Self-Sufficient
Life and How to Live it teaches the skills needed to live
independently in harmony with the land - from harnessing
natural forms of energy, raising crops and keeping livestock,
to preserving foodstuffs, basketry, carpentry, weaving,
and much more. This is the ultimate practical guide for
realists and dreamers alike aspiring to get back to the
basics. |
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Power
with Nature: Alternative Energy Solutions for Homeowners
Updated: Live well anywhere. Learn how you can
be free from dependence on the grid. |
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Wind
Energy Handbook: Large hardcover textbook covering
all aspects of wind turbines. The Wind Energy Handbook draws
on the authors' collective industrial and academic experience
to highlight the interdisciplinary nature of wind energy
research and provide a comprehensive treatment of wind energy
for electricity generation. |
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The
Solar House: Passive Solar Heating and Cooling: An
excellent, highly rated book detailing all the issues involved
in designing or modifying a house to maximize passive solar
heating and cooling. |
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The
Passive Solar House: Using Solar Design to Heat and Cool
Your Home: Thorough exploration of one type of
passive solar system. |
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Achieving
Energy Independence - One Step at a Time: A must
have first text for any homeowner wanting to install a back
up power system for their home or home business. Answers
all installation questions about solar photovoltaic systems,
generators, battery inverters, wind turbines, and battery
banks, including wiring diagrams and safety issues. |
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Sun,
Wind & Light: Architectural Design Strategies, 2nd Edition:
Explains how to design buildings that heat with the sun,
cool with the wind, light with the sky, and move into the
future using on-site renewable resources. |
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Hot
Water from the Sun: A Consumer Guide to Solar Water Heating:
US government publication. |
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Biological
Farmer: A Complete Guide to the Sustainable & Profitable
Biological System of Farming: An excellent book
written by one of the founders of one of North America's
foremost sustainable agriculture consulting groups. |
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Five
Acres and Independence: This is the ground breaking
self sufficiency classic written in the 1930's, yet very
pertinent to today. |
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On
Good Land: The Autobiography of an Urban Farm: This
12.5-acre oasis exists only because Michael Ableman has
steadfastly refused to let it be gobbled up by the relentless
bulldozers. His story is funny, fierce, inspiring, and infuriating.
His success, tempered by ample setbacks, will be of practical
use to anybody seeking to preserve farmland from suburban
sprawl. |
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Micro
Eco-Farming: Prospering from Backyard to Small Acreage in
Partnership with the Earth: Microfarms—or
small acreage farms—are gaining popularity across
the country for their astoundingly high yields and great
tasting produce, as well as their profitability. This handbook
reveals the secrets of successful micro eco-farming and
explains what eco-farmers need to know to start their own
small agribusiness. |
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The
Fatal Harvest Reader: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture:
Fatal Harvest takes an unprecedented look at our current
ecologically destructive agricultural system and offers
a compelling vision for an organic and environmentally safer
way of producing the food we eat. |
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The
New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques
for the Home and Market Gardener: Excellent book
containing 22 chapters, each one dealing with an important
element of success such as green manures, tillage, direct
seeding, transplanting, weeds, pests, harvest, marketing,
season extension. |
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The
Apple Grower: A Guide for the Organic Orchardist:
An excellent manual for the budding organic fruit grower. |
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The
Big Book of Preserving the Harvest: 150 Recipes for Freezing,
Canning, Drying, and Pickling Fruits and Vegetables: The
Big Book of Preserving the Harvest introduces the basic
technique for all preserving methods, with step-by-step
illustration, informative charts and tips throughout, and
more than 150 recipes for the new or experienced home preserver. |
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Basic
Butchering of Livestock & Game:
Provides clear, concise, and step-by-step information for
people who want to slaughter their own meat. |
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Keeping
the Harvest: Discover the Homegrown Goodness of Putting
Up Your Own Fruits, Vegetables & Herbs: Illustrated
step-by-step instructions explain the techniques for canning,
freezing, drying, and pickling. |
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Putting
Food By: The fourth edition of this classic guide
to freezing, canning, and preserving food includes new updated
information. Highly rated. |
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Root
Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables:
Root cellaring, as many people remember but only a few people
still practice, is a way of using the earth's naturally
cool, stable temperature to store perishable fruits and
vegetables. Root cellaring, as Mike and Nancy Bubel explain
here, is a no-cost, simple, low-technology, energy-saving
way to keep the harvest fresh all year long. |
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The
New Strawbale Home: A beautiful coffee table book
that shows how attractive, cost effective, energy saving
and practical strawbale homes can be. Wonderful. |
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Serious
Straw Bale: A Home Construction Guide for All Climates:
Comprehensive book on straw bale construction. |
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Small
Strawbale: Natural Homes, Projects & Designs:
This practical guide is filled with rich photos of homes,
greenhouses, studios, sheds, open-air structures and more,
each pulsating with unique yet subtle creativity. Both a
pragmatic construction manual and a philosophical, artistic
guidebook, Small Strawbale is an inspirational starting
point for a strawbale dreamer, and a great source of information
for those who are ready to get bailing. |
