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Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, ...
The Gardeners and Farmers of Centre Terre Vivante
Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007
A very useful book, that calls to mind grandmas of the world!
+ Food for the Gods from our Forefathers: What good taste they had!
+ An excellent book for those who wish to eat healthy all year long.
+ THE OLD WAYS HAVE SOME VALID POINTS
+ Good overview of basic food preservation
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Shelters, Shacks & Shanties: And How to Build Them
D. C. Beard
The Lyons Press, 1999
Outdoorsmen's delight
+ simple, practical construction
+ This book is great! Read this review.
+ This book is great! Read this review.
+ Old book but great ideas do not grow old!
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Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners
Suzanne Ashworth, Kent Whealy
Seed Savers Exchange, 2002
Very Great Book
+ Love this book!
+ Fantastic book for those looking to start saving seed
+ Great book
+ Seed to Seed
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Water Storage: Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers, and Ponds for Domestic Supply, Fire and Emergency Use--Includes How ...
Art Ludwig
Oasis Design, 2005
Read the book, Build the tank
+ Great Book
+ another great book from oasis design
+ Water Storage: Tanks, Cisterns, Aquifers, and Ponds for Domestic Supply, Fire and Emergency Use--Includes How to Make Ferrocemen
+ very excellent detailed book
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Earth-Sheltered Houses: How to Build an Affordable...
Rob Roy
New Society Publishers, 2006
The best available guide I've found yet
+ Good for cement lovers
+ Earth Sheltered housing
+ Geat book
+ Location, location, location
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The Wheelwright's Shop
George Sturt
Cambridge University Press, 1963
Excellent View into an Esoteric Past
+ Good Book
+ A fine read for the woodworker
+ A wonderful and poignent book
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Texas Organic Vegetable Gardening: The Total Guide to Growing Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs, and Other Edible ...
J. Howard Garrett
Gulf Publishing, 1998
Great Book On Organic Gardening
+ This is THE BOOK!
+ Best Texas vege gardening book!
Howard covers the essentials of Basic Organic Gardening as well as the how to's. I bought the book at Rohde's for about the same price before shipping. If you can't get to Garland; but it here. We just completed our 20'x20' raised bed garden. Our front yard is the lushest greenest yard in the ...
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Teaming with Microbes: A Gardener's Guide to the Soil Food Web
Jeff Lowenfels, Wayne Lewis
Timber Press, Incorporated, 2006
Excellent resource
+ If you are ready to take it a step further.
+ Teaming with Microbes
+ A must for the organic gardener!
+ Teaming with Microbes
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The Very Small Home: Japanese Ideas for Living Well in Limited Space
Azby Brown
Kodansha International, 2005
Origami you can live in, or at least marvel at...
+ Really enjoyed the book
+ Excellent!
+ How small can you go
+ Beutiful Photagraphy and uncluttered writing
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Ultimate Guide to Planting Food Plots for Deer and Other Wildlife (Outdoorsman's Edge)
John Weiss
Creative Outdoors, 2004
Excellent, practical and to the point.
+ Easy and understandable reading
+ Good book, general overview
+ He loved it
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Forgotten Arts and Crafts
John Seymour
DK ADULT, 2001
WoW
+ Know the Facts Before Buying this Book
A great coffee table book seeing as how it does not have much in the way of detailed information as to actually how-to. But still, it contains wonderful information for anyone interested how thing were done not sixty years ago, or for anyone interested in doing things how they were done not sixty ...
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Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens
Douglas W. Tallamy
Timber Press, 2007
Great book and very informative
+ Bugs Are Good
+ Creates a paradigm shift in environmental thought
+ important information
+ A Must Read
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Basic Butchering of Livestock & Game
John J. Mettler
Storey Publishing, LLC, 1986
Excellent book
+ Great Book
+ A lot for the price!
+ A valued meat hand Book
+ Great Reference Book
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Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification
Thomas J. Elpel
HOPS Press, LLC, 2004
Makes a great first book on the subject
+ Botany in a Day
+ excellent resource
+ Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identification
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Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens: Care / Feeding / Facilities
Gail Damerow
Storey Publishing, LLC, 1995
Awesome read for novice chicken keepers
+ This is the one you need
+ A Must Read for Chicken Owners
+ Good Comprehensive Information on Chickens
+ Great for overall chicken info!
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