Traditional Skills for Country Life
Home Cheese Making

Home Cheese Making

Ricki Carroll

The classic home cheese making primer has been updated and revised to reflect the increased interest in artisanal-quality cheeses and the availability of cheese making supplies and equipment. Here are 85 recipes for cheeses and ...

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$16.95


Home Sausage Making

Home Sausage Making

Susan Mahnke Peery, Charles Reavis

The classic volume in the field, Home Sausage Making is now completely revised and updated to comply with current USDA safety standards and now features 100 recipes for sausages (cased and uncased) and 50 recipes ...

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$16.95


Beekeeping

Beekeeping

Richard E. Bonney

With his respect and admiration for bees evident on every page, Richard E. Bonney describes how to acquire bees, manage a hive, prevent and treat diseases, and take a crop of honey ...

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$18.95


Hive Management

Hive Management

Richard E. Bonney

For the practicing beekeeper who needs more information, or the serious novice who wants to start out well, here is sensible advice to help keep honey bees thriving ...

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$16.95


The Backyard Homestead

The Backyard Homestead

Edited by Carleen Madigan

With just a quarter acre of land, you can feed a family of four with fresh, organic food year-round. This comprehensive guide to self-sufficiency gives you all the information you need to grow and preserve ...

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$18.95


The Backyard Lumberjack

The Backyard Lumberjack

Frank Philbrick, Stephen Philbrick

For every man who has ever conjured up a picture of himself felling trees in a roar of chainsaw noise and power, The Backyard Lumberjack is an account of dreams fulfilled. Father and son lumberjacks ...

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$18.95


The Blacksmith’s Craft

The Blacksmith’s Craft

Charles McRaven

Setting up your own forge and crafting everyday items is easier than you might think. Charles McRaven, a master blacksmith, guides you step-by-step through the process of building a simple forge from recycled materials, acquiring ...

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$19.95


Storey’s Basic Country Skills

Storey’s Basic Country Skills

John Storey, Martha Storey

This is the book for anyone who wants to become more self-reliant, from suburbanites with 1/4 of an acre to country homesteaders with several. The information is easily understood and readily applicable.More than 150 of ...

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$24.95


Tan Your Hide

Tan Your Hide

Phyllis Hobson

Tan Your Hide is a step-by-step guide to making vests, belts, and wallets by home-tanning and hand-working furs and leathers ...

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$12.95


Stonework

Stonework

Charles McRaven

Discover the lasting satisfaction of working with stone and learn the tricks of the trade from a master craftsman with this collection of 22 fully illustrated, step-by-step instructions for garden paths and walls, porches, pools ...

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$18.95


Step-by-Step Outdoor Stonework

Step-by-Step Outdoor Stonework

Mike Lawrence

More than 20 easy-to-build stone projects for patio and garden are described in detail and illustrated with hundreds of drawings and color photographs ...

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$18.95