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FINDING AND BUYING YOUR PLACE IN THE COUNTRY by Los Scher. A practicing attorney tells all about locating and inspecting a parcel, dealing with owners and agents, financing your purchase, and generally avoiding all the pitfalls in land buying that await the uninformed. 393 pages. Paperback. 70021 $6.95

THE MANUAL OF PRACTICAL HOMESTEADING by John Vivian, A working, nitty-gritty handbook of how-to instruction for self-sufficient gardening, stock raising, poultry care, canning, and preserving ... just about all you need to know to make a life for yourself on a rugged, demanding homestead. 340 pages. Paperback. 70013 $5.95

COUNTRY WOMEN: A HANDBOOK FOR THE NEW FARMER by Jeanne Totrault and Sherry Thomas. An inspiring, instructive manual of basic rural skills ... and a guide to discovering your rightful relationship to the land. 383 pages. Large paperback. 70031 $6.95

DOWN-TO-EARTH VEGETABLE GARDENING KNOW HOW featuring Dick Raymond. Here's one of the few books on the subject that covers it all: everything from initial site selection to planting, harvesting, and storage. Full of often-overlooked basics and hard-to-find facts. 160 pages. Large paperback. 67031 $5.95

BUILDING AND USING OUR SUN-HEATED GREEN-HOUSE by Helen and Scott Nearing. In this Garden Way book, veteran homesteaders Helen and Scott Nearing explain how they've been able to keep themselves in fresh vegetables year round (in chilly New England) with the aid of a single unheated (except for Ole Sol) greenhouse. They've done all the hard work and research ... now you can reap the benefits as you read how Helen and Scott built their novel "pit" greenhouse, how they've kept their costs to a minimum (and their food production at a maximum), and how they've conquered the cold weather problem. An extremely valuable book for anyone who'd like to grow vegetables in the dead of winter, but thinks "it can't be done". This book proves it can! 128 pages. Paperback. 72013 $6.95

FOXFIRE 4 edited by Eliot Wigginton. Still more odes to plain living from the mountains of southern Appalachia. This latest volume in the Foxfire series contains information on water systems, knife making, wood carving, gardening, cheesemaking, wooden sleds, bird traps and rabbit boxes, logging, tar making, berry buckets, and much more. Included also are an appendix that updates material contained in the first three Foxfire books, a listing of periodicals and resource materials about Appalachia, and an Afterword by folklore scholar Richard M. Dorson. Lotsa good reading for the money, as always. 361 pages.

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