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Handy Farm Devices & How To Make Them
by: Cobleigh, Rolfe
Originally published in 1909, this is more than an engaging trip
down memory lane. For any small farmer or homesteader, the techniques
and devices described in detail are just as useful, durable, and fully
functional today as they were 75 years ago. You will learn to build a
portable chicken coop, a stone boat (for moving stone), a lightweight
orchard ladder, gates that don't sag, gates that lift over snowdrifts,
a handy wood splitter, spill-proof chicken waterers, a small truss bridge,
easy fence-post and stump-puller, a bicycle-powered washing machineas
well as rudimentary farm structures, well houses, bee hives, a baby's
cradle, a cheese press and much more. The charming, turn-of-the-century
language and useful and inspirational quotes from Shakespeare, the Bible,
Bacon, Longfellow and many others make this book a delight to read. Lots
of illustrations. 288 pgs.
c. 2007, First published 1909, S/C... $9.95
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Handy Sportsman
by: Wilson, Loring
Illustrated with photos by the author, this step-by-step how-to book shows
you how to make your own hunting and fishing equipment, including a tackle
box, rod rack, flies, trout net, rifle cabinet, lures, duck decoys and
much more. 218 pgs.
c. 1976, H/C...$15.00
Used, Out-Of-Print, Quantities Limited
Condition: Good with dust jacket, dust jacket
fair & taped to book, ex-library, usual library markings, otherwise
inside very clean & nice
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Have-More Plan
by: Robinson, Ed & Carolyn
How to make a small cash income into the best and happiest living any
family could want. Includes: buying a place, laying out a homestaed, part-time
farm pays for itself, gardening, building a small barn, dwarf fruit trees
& berries, a fish pond, and starting right with poultry, rabbits, milk
goats, cows, bees, and more. B/W photos & illustrations. 70 pgs.
c.1973...S/C, Reprint...$9.95
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Historic Farm Buildings
by: Lake, Jeremy
From vast and beautiful tithe barns to small upland byres, the farm has
provided us with some of the most satisfying and eccentric buildings to
be found in rural architecture. This brings alive the farming communities
which produced such a wide variety of architectural styles, explaining
how and why each style developed. B/W photos & illusustrations in
text throughout.144 pgs.
c.1989...S/C...$14.95
Out-Of-Print, Quantities Limited
Condition: Brand New
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Hit By a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn
by: Friend, Catherine
Farms have fences. People have boundaries. Mine began crumbling the day
I knelt behind a male sheep, reached between his legs, and squeezed his
testicles. This took place one blustery November day when I joined other
shepherd-wannabees for a class on the basics of raising sheep. I was there
with my partner Melissa, the woman I'd lived with for twelve years, because
we were going to start a farm . When self-confessed "urban bookworm"
Catherine Friend's partner of twelve years decides she wants to fulfill
her lifelong dream of owning a farm, Catherine agrees. What ensues is
a crash course in both living off and with the land that ultimately allows
Catherine to help fulfill Melissa's dreams while not losing sight of her
own. Hit by a Farm is a hilarious recounting of Catherine and Melissa's
trials of "getting back to the land." It is also a coming-of
(middle)-age story of a woman trying to cross the divide between who she
is and who she wants to be, and the story of a couple who say "goodbye
city life" — and learn more than they ever bargained for about
love, land, and yes, sheep sex. 240 pgs.
c. 2006, S/C... $14.95
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Hobby Farm: Living Your Rural Dream For Pleasure & Profit
by: Ekarius, Carol
From the publisher of Hobby Farms magazine comes Hobby Farm, the perfect
book for anyone who dreams of life in the country. Choose the right farm
for your needs, anticipate lifestyle changes, navigate legal & real
estate issues, plant sustainable gardens, select & care for a variety
of livestock, preserve harvested goods, enjoy fresh meat & dairy products,
prepare delicious dishes from homegrown crops, tackle nature's troublemakers,
& turn a profit from hobby farming. Beautifully illustrated with color
photos throughout. 272 pgs.
c. 2005, S/C...$24.95
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Hobby Farms Magazine
The magazine for rural enthusiasts – hobby farmers, small production
farmers and those passionate about the country. Hobby Farms caters to
all aspects of rural life – from small farm equipment, to livestock,
to crops. Hobby Farms highlights “rural living for pleasure and profit.”
Hobby Farm Home Magazine
The home magazine for those truly living in the country. Hobby Farm
Home highlights farmhouse activities such as cooking, crafting, collecting,
pet care and home arts and skills.
Click here to view issues & place
order
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Holy Cows & Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer's
Guide To Farm Friendly Food
by: Salatin, Joel
Wwritten by an honest-to-goodness-dirt-under-the-fingernails, optimistic,
clean food farmer. His goal is to: Empower food buyers to pursue positive
alternatives to the industrialized food system; Bring clean food farmers
and their patrons into a teamwork relationship; Marry the best of western
technology with the soul of Eastern ethics; Educate food buyers about productions;
Create a food system that enhances nature's ecology for future generations.
Holy Cows and Hog Heaven has an overriding objective of encouraging every
food buyer to embrace the notion that menus are a conscious decision, creating
the next generation's world one bite at a time. 134 pgs.
c. 2004, S/C...$17.95
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Home Creamery
by: Farrell-Kingsley, Kathy
Butter, yogurt, ricotta, and other fresh dairy products have been made
in home kitchens around the world for centuries. They are not difficult
to make, require no complicated aging techniques, and offer the home cook
a wonderful range of tart, sweet, nutty, silky, creamy, melty textures
and flavors. With the growing availability of local, organic milk and
the soaring popularity of raw milk, now is the perfect time to bring fresh
dairy products back to the home kitchen. Author Kathy Farrell-Kingsley
begins with simple, step-by-step instructions for making sour cream, buttermilk,
créme fraîche, mozzarella, fresh goat cheese, and 10 other
fresh milk products. Home cooks will be thrilled with the simple but magical
process of turning milk or cream into cultured dairy products and soft,
unripened cheeses. There's nothing quite like watching cream turn into
butter or tasting the slightly chewy tang of homemade mozzarella. Following
the dairy instructions are 75 delicious cooking and baking recipes developed
to showcase products from The Home Creamery. Cheese Blintzes, Herbed Goat
Cheese Bites, Mozzarella Panini, Spinach Ricotta Pie, Coleslaw with Buttermilk
Dressing, Chocolate Sour Cream Cake, and Tiramisu are that much sweeter
when made with the rich creamy goodness of homemade dairy items. 214 pgs.
c. 2008, S/C...$16.95
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Home Farm Handbook
by: Peter Ford
A comprehensive guide to buying, raising, and breeding farm animals successfully.
Advice on choosing specific breeds, instructions on how to care for your
your animals on a daily basis, information on health maintenance and disease
prevention. Animals covered: chickens, ducks, geeses, goats and bees.
Over 120 photographs. 128 pgs.
c. 2000...H/C...$12.95
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Home Improvement Manual (Reader's Digest)
by: Reader's Digest
A do-it-yourself guide to renovating, modernizing, & adding space
to your home, this book is packed with ideas and information. For the
all-out do-it-yourselfer, or for those who only intend to plan and oversee
projects, this book will help save time and money. From building codes
to architecural drawings, from foundations to waterproofing, from interior
walls to finishing basements, from electrical work to plumbing, from adding
a wing to windows, decks or retaining walls, this book covers it all.
Loaded with B/W photos, color photos, illustrations, plans & blueprints.
384 pgs.
c. 1982, H/C...$25.00
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Homeowner's Guide To Solar Heating (Sunset)
Edited
In clear, nontechnical language, this book explains how solar heating works
& how it can be applied to your home - in active & passive heating,
domestic water heating, & pool heating. Detailed drawings & color
photos showing a variety of approaches to soalr heating will help you in
selecting architecture you prefer. Guidelines for planning your own solar
heating system include how to determine your home's soalr potential &
how to locate the equipment & the professional help you need. 96 ps.
c. 1978, S/C...$5.00
Used, Out-Of-Print, Quantities Limited
Condition: Good,
ex-library, usually library markings, slight wear on cover, inside pages
clean
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Homesteader's Handbook
by: Churchill, James
Getting ready, getting land, acquiring animals, organic gardening, wild
foods, water supply, honey & syrup, toolmaking, building from natural
material, butchering, aquaculture, spinning & knitting, soapmaking,
farming the large spread, handling medical emergencies. 224 pgs.
c. 1974, H/C...$25.00
Used, Out-Of-Print, Quantities Limited
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Homesteader's Handbook To Raising Small Livestock
by: Belanger, Jerome D.
Goat, sheep, chicken, geese, rabbit, hog, turkey, guinea fowl, duck, &
pigeon. oat, sheep, chicken, geese, rabbit, hog, turkey, guinea fowl,
duck, & pigeon. Open this book, then choose you animal or animals,
and read about their place on the homestead; how much room and care they
will need; how much of a return you will realize for the time, money &
work you put into their raising; the different breeds available; housing
requirements; what equipment you can buy or build yourself; how to control
diseases through prevention; how to mix your own food rations; how to
make the best use of manure; how to butcher and use you animal's by-products
and much more. B/W photos & illustrations. 246 pgs.
c. 1974, H/C...$22.50
Used, Out-Of-Print, Quantities Limited
Condition: Good-Very Good
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Homesteader's Handbook To Raising Small Livestock
by: Belanger, Jerome D.
Goat, sheep, chicken, geese, rabbit, hog, turkey, guinea fowl, duck, &
pigeon. oat, sheep, chicken, geese, rabbit, hog, turkey, guinea fowl,
duck, & pigeon. Open this book, then choose you animal or animals,
and read about their place on the homestead; how much room and care they
will need; how much of a return you will realize for the time, money &
work you put into their raising; the different breeds available; housing
requirements; what equipment you can buy or build yourself; how to control
diseases through prevention; how to mix your own food rations; how to
make the best use of manure; how to butcher and use you animal's by-products
and much more. B/W photos & illustrations. 246 pgs.
c. 1974, S/C...$12.50
Used, Out-Of-Print, Quantities Limited
Condition: Good-Very Good
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Homesteading
by: Gehring, Abigail (Editor)
A Back to Basics Guide to Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens,
Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Medicine, and More. The companion
to the bestseller' Back to Basics' for country, urban, and suburban folks.
Who doesn't want to shrink their carbon footprint, save money, and eat
homegrown food whenever possible? Even readers who are very much on the
grid will embrace this large, fully-illustrated guide on the basics of
living the good, clean life. It's written with country lovers in mind
- even those who currently live in the city. Whether you live in the city,
the suburbs, or even the wilderness, there is plenty you can do to improve
your life from a green perspective. Got sunlight? Start container gardening.
With a few plants, fresh tomatoes, which then become canned tomato sauce,
are a real option. Reduce electricity use by eating dinner by candlelight
(using homemade candles, of course). Learn to use rainwater to augment
water supplies. Make your own soap and hand lotion. Consider keeping chickens
for the eggs. From what to eat to supporting sustainable restaurants to
avoiding dry cleaning, this book offers information on anything a homesteader
needs' and more. 1000 color illustrations. 456 pgs.
c. 2009, H/C...$24.95
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Horse Housing: How To Plan, Build, And Remodel Barns And Sheds
by: Klimesh, Richard & Hill, Cherry
Whether building a new barn or improving an existing one, this is the
perfect guide. From finding the best building site to choosing stall latches,
this is chock full of how-to tips. It explains in detail which materials
are good to use around horses, and how good lighting, flooring, and ventilation
make a big difference to both horses and people. And it goes beyond theory
-- offering information, like how to estimate concrete and shingle a new
roof or replace an old one. The book contains 16 plans, an extensive directory
for locating services needed for barn construction, and a glossary of
more than 300 terms to help demystify the building process. Color photos.
201 pgs.
c. 2002, H/C...$29.95
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How To Build Animal Housing
by: Ekarius, Carol
60 plans for coops, hutches, barns, sheds, pens, nest boxes, feeders,
stanchions, and much more. With careful discussions of animal welfare,
behavior, and general safety issues, you'll get expert advice on planning
ahead and budgeting adequatley. Detailed plans are supplemented with an
entire section dedicated to construction techniques. 260 pgs.
c. 2004, S/C...$24.95
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How To Build Fences & Gates (A Sunset Book)
Edited
Fences & their function, building fences & screens, wood fences, fences
of other materials, wire for security, special situation fencing, fence
paltings, lighting, decoration, gates - ornate & simple. Filled with B/W
photos, illustrations and diagrams. 96 pgs.
c. 1976, S/C...$12.50
Used, Out-Of-Print, Quantities Limited
Condition: Very Good
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How To Build Paths, Steps & Footbridges
by: Jeswald, Peter
The fundamentals of planning, designing, and constructing creative walkways
in your home landscape. You'll get advice on: planning a project that
works with your property's topography, creating a site plan and selecting
the appropraite materials, and building it yourself step-by-step. Loaded
with B/W illustrations and color photos. 234 pgs.
c. 2005, S/C...$19.95
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How To Build Small Barns & Outbuildings
by: Burch, Monte
Step-by-step through the foundations of general construction - from information
on planning and laying out a site to do-it-yourself instructions on framing,
roofing, wiring, plumbing, and much more. More than 20 projects offer
complete plans & instructions for how to build a wide variety of structures.
Including: pole barn, horse barn, milk barn, machine shed, sheep/goat
shelter, woodshed, garden shed, home office, add-on garage, guest house,
roadside stand, insulated dog house, and more. B/W photos & drawings.
280 pages.
c.1992...S/C...$18.95
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How To Build Your Cabin or Modern Vacation Home
by: Walton, Harry
This book will tell you how to select your homesite, choose plans and
materials, build foundations, log cabins & frame structures, work
with interior and exterior paneling and siding, build porches, build chimneys
& fireplaces, how to solve water & waste problems, and much more.
Over 170 photos, diagrams & drawings. 160 pgs.
c. 1964, S/C... $15.00
Used, Out-Of-Print, Quantities Limited
Condition: Like new
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How To Know American Antique Furniture
by: Bishop, Robert
Designed as a basic reference guide to enable the collector and student
to recognize the essential characteristics of many types of early American
furniture. Over 300 photographs and line drawings illustrate fine expamples
of furniture from the seventeenth century to 1915 in the Pilgrim, Queen
Anne, Chippendale, Federal, Empire, Victorian, Windsor and Turn-of-the-Century
styles. 224 pages.
c. 1975, S/C...$7.50
Used, Out-Of-Print, Quantities Limited
Condition: Good,
with signs of shelf wear
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Just the Greatest Life
by: David Schafer
True stories from the author's first twenty years living in the country
on a small farm in Missouri. "A pure, inspiring treasure...that shows
us that it's all still possible; living a simpler, lighter life on the
land. Schafer captures the essence of a life gone real." 222 pgs.
c. 2000...S/C...$16.95
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Keeping Basements Dry
by: Diamond, Larry
Offers practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master
country living skills quickly and easily. Where does water come from,
how it gets inside, cracks, poor drainage, seepage, sump pumps. 29 pgs.
c. 1978, Booklet...$3.95
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