 | Mother Earth News
Buy new: $15.00 Mother Earth News magazine and website are often my first and best resource for learning something new and valuable and teaching my children.
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 | Gaia's Garden: A Guide to Home-Scale Permaculture by Toby Hemenway
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $9.77 Wonderful book for using what nature provides and learning from nature's ways. Highly recommended.
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 | The New Moosewood Cookbook (Mollie Katzen's Classic Cooking) by Mollie Katzen
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $10.75 My favorite cookbook...inspires me to be more creative in my own cooking. A wonderful companion to gardening books.
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 | Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long by Eliot Coleman
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $16.38 Exceptional resource for learning a wealth of gardening knowledge...not just winter gardening.
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 | Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits & Vegetables by Mike Bubel
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.86 Inspirational, informative, down-to-earth text for increasing your yield and ability to store produce...even if you can't put in a root cellar.
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 | Keeping A Family Cow by Joann S. Grohman
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $88.87 My dream.
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 | Lasagna Gardening: A New Layering System for Bountiful Gardens: No Digging, No Tilling, No Weeding, No Kidding! by Patricia Lanza
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $6.43 Akin to Gaia's Garden...uses nature's ways to easily produce beautiful productive gardens.
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 | Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners by Suzanne Ashworth
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $16.38 My dream is to increase our independence. Saving seeds year to year...feeding my family year round...freedom and simplicity...it's beautiful.
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 | From Asparagus to Zucchini: A Guide to Cooking Farm-Fresh Seasonal Produce by Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $13.26 Another great cookbook...with information on the benefits of eating locally.
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 | Life Skills for Kids: Equipping Your Child for the Real World by Christine Field
Buy new: $10.19 / Used from: $5.35 Wonderful book full of practical ideas for implementing real life learning. We live in a society that emphasizes trivial knowledge, at the expense of taking care of oneself. This book will get you back on track for teaching your children what they will need and use for a life time. My favorite line "I am not my child's cruise director."
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 | Felt Wee Folk: Enchanting Projects by Salley Mavor
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $5.86 Sewing and craft book to inspire and have fun!
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 | Buckles & Bobbins: A Beginning Sewing Book for Boys by JoAnn Gagnon
Buy new: $24.95 Sewing book geared toward boys.
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 | Raising Self-Reliant Children in a Self-Indulgent World: Seven Building Blocks for Developing Capable Young People by H. Stephen Glenn
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.25 Wonderful must have parenting book.
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 | Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Engelmann
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $7.99 Easiest way I've found to teach reading.
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 | Kids Knitting: Projects for Kids of all Ages by Melanie Falick
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $1.20 I never could knit until I bought this book for my daughter...we've been learning together.
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 | Mary Frances Sewing Book by Jane Eayre Fryer
Buy used from: $21.39 Great book to teach (or learn) hand sewing.
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 | King Arthur Flour Whole Grain Baking: Delicious Recipes Using Nutritious Whole Grains by King Arthur Flour
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $16.00 Baking your own bread really doesn't take that long, and it is so much better!
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 | Say Goodbye to Whining, Complaining, and Bad Attitudes...in You and Your Kids by Scott Turansky
Buy new: $11.19 / Used from: $5.00 Great, practical, family and God honoring parenting book.
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 | The Complete Baking Cookbook: 350 Recipes from Cookies and Cakes to Muffins and Pies by George Geary
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $11.91 Grow a garden well and preserve the yield for winter. It's smart, and natural...
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 | Putting Food By (Plume) by Janet Greene
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $8.25 Another resource...
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 | Once Upon a Time: The Way America Was by Eric Sloane
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $3.67 I love Eric Sloane books...they inspire me with stories of what we once were and can become again.
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 | Chickens: Tending a Small-Scale Flock for Pleasure and Profit (Hobby Farms) by Sue Weaver
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.99 I think everyone should own chickens! You don't need many, they will provide you with eggs and meat, till your soil, eat weed seeds and bugs...so lovely!
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 | Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? A Fast, Clear, and Fun Explanation of the Economics You Need For Success in Your Career, Business, and Investments (An Uncle Eric Book) by Richard J. Maybury
Buy new: $13.46 / Used from: $11.22 Love Uncle Eric books, and could put so many here...this one is on economics. Go find more!
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 | Everyday Math for Everyday Life: A Handbook for When It Just Doesn't Add Up by Mark Ryan
Buy used from: $6.59 Necessary math
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 | The Kids' Book of Weather Forecasting: Build a Weather Station, "Read" the Sky, & Make Predictions (A Williamson Kids Can Book) by Mark Breen
Buy new: $22.75 / Used from: $103.69 Teach and learn about the weather...it's knowledge you'll use for a lifetime!
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 | Backyard (One Small Square) by Donald M. Silver
Buy used from: $3.09 One small square books are great...full of information and engaging activities. Backyard is one of my favorites for introducing kids to soil, creatures and nature.
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 | Sunflower Houses : Inspiration from the Garden - A Book for Children and Their Grown-Ups by Sharon Lovejoy
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $5.20 Lovely book to introduce kids to the joy of gardening.
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 | Trowel and Error: Over 700 Tips, Remedies and Shortcuts for the Gardener by Sharon Lovejoy
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $5.58 Lots of little hints and how-tos.
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