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Mother Earth News Guide To Growing Your Own Food, 2nd Edition E-book

This year, enjoy the benefits of growing and eating your own food! The latest installment of the Mother Earth News Guide to Growing Your Own Food E-book will help you save money and improve your health. Covering growing, harvesting, feasting and everything in between, this guide can help you save money with a wealth of gardening projects, plans and ideas.

Tired of needing a science manual to understand a list of ingredients? Fed up with being dependent on rising food costs? Now you can control what you eat with the Mother Earth News: Guide To Growing Your Own Food, 2nd Edition E-book. Learn how to maintain healthy garden soil. Find out the secret to growing the best berries. Read the four key strategies for a weed-free garden! And more!

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Learn how to get more from your garden from the Mother Earth News How to Grow and Preserve Your Own Food E-book.

This issue is packed with tips, advice, success stories and information on growing and preserving the food you grow and make yourself. You'll experience everything from canning those extra vegetables to the process and benefit of raising chickens for eggs and meat.

Inside this special issue you'll find articles such as:

• Gardening on a Budget: Six Tips for Success
• Easy Ways to Preserve Fresh Food
• Expert Advice for Greenhouse Growing
• Build a Basement Root Cellar
• Install the Best Garden Fences
• Dry and Freeze Tomatoes
• Grow Great Salads Year-Around
• Want Milk? Get Goats

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This book is for anyone who wants to grow and to make good cider or even simple apple juice. Whether you have a backyard garden with a couple of apple trees, several acres of orchard deep in the countryside, or you’re just ‘scrumping’ apples from friends and neighbours every autumn, this book is for you.

Here you can learn about the equipment you need, the techniques to use and just how they work as they do. You’ll also learn what to do when things go wrong, and how to put them right! Packed with a wealth of practical experience and understanding, Craft Cider Making is for beginners and old hands alike.

About the author: Andrew Lea is a retired food biochemist who started his career in the tea industry and then spent 13 years at the Long Ashton Research Station (the National Fruit and Cider Institute). For the past 20 years he has been a hobby cider maker with his own small orchard and cider press and has won many prizes at national and international cider competitions.

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Ball Home Canning Products are the gold standard in home preserving supplies, the trademark jars on display in stores every summer from coast to coast. Now the experts at Ball have written a book destined to become the bible of home preserving.

As nutrition and food quality has become more important, home canning and preserving have increased in popularity for the benefits they offer:

• Cooks gain control of the ingredients, including organic fruits and vegetables
• Preserving foods at their freshest point locks in nutrition
• The final product is free of chemical additives and preservatives
• Store-bought brands cannot match the wonderful flavor of homemade
• Only a few hours are needed to put up a batch of jam or relish
• Home preserves make a great personal gift any time of year

These 400 innovative and enticing recipes include everything from salsas and savory sauces to pickling, chutneys, relishes and, of course, jams, jellies, and fruit spreads, such as:

• Mango-Raspberry Jam, Damson Plum Jam
• Crab Apple Jelly, Green Pepper Jelly
• Spiced Red Cabbage, Pickled Asparagus
• Roasted Red Pepper Spread, Tomatillo Salsa
• Brandied Apple Rings, Apricot-Date Chutney

The book includes comprehensive directions on safe canning and preserving methods plus lists of required equipment and utensils. Specific instructions for first-timers and handy tips for the experienced make the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving a valuable addition to any kitchen library.

About the authors: Judi Kingry and Lauren Devine have between them 20 years of experience in the preserving industry. They are both employed by Jarden Home Brands.

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This is an extensive and life-changing collection of recipes geared toward eating healthy. Recognizing the exceptional benefits that come with combining Western super foods with Asian super spices, author Gurpareet Bains sets out to inform us about how each recipe in this wonderful collection will help to improve our health and well-being. These dishes tap into the world’s enduring love affair with curry, while offering big bonuses — via high antioxidant levels, cardiovascular health benefits and a myriad of curative properties.

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Home-cooked gluten-free cooking goes artisanal and global (yet accessible, and unfailingly delicious) with these 250-plus recipes. Written by an enterprising husband-and-wife team (he’s a professional writer, diagnosed in 2007 with celiac; she’s a devoted, passionate home cook and professionally trained chef), this book include 70-plus recipes made with their own proprietary, intensively tested gluten-free flour mix.

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For those on a gluten-restricted diet, baking is usually the most difficult culinary obstacle to overcome. With the innovative recipes in Gluten-Free Baking, it is easy for those with gluten intolerance to once again safely enjoy the delicious pleasures of breads, cakes, cookies and other baked goods.

Author Phil Vickery explains the basics of a gluten-free diet and analyzes its implications for baking. He provides the essential ingredients of a gluten-free pantry and gives instructions for making a gluten-free flour mix that can be used in recipes throughout the book.

This new book provides 70 easy recipes for delicious baked treats that were specifically designed to be gluten free. There are tasty versions of family favorites and sophisticated delicacies, such as:

• Pancakes with maple syrup
• Yorkshire puddings
• Roasted hazelnut cookies

• Buttermilk muffins
• Breakfast brioche
• Rosemary and garlic focaccia
• Indian flatbread

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Euell Gibbons was one of the few people in this country to devote a considerable part of his life to the adventure of “living off the land.” He sought out wild plants all over North America and made them into delicious dishes. His book includes recipes for vegetable and casserole dishes, breads, cakes, muffins and 20 different pies. He also shows how to make numerous jellies, jams, teas and wines, and how to sweeten them with wild honey or homemade maple syrup.

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Mennonite Girls Can Cook is a blog about recipes, hospitality, relationships, encouragement and helping the hungry—and now it's a book, too!

Like the blog, Mennonite Girls Can Cook—the book—is more than just recipes. It's about hospitality, versus entertaining; about blessing, versus impressing. It's about taking God's Bounty and co-creating the goodness from God's creation into something that can bless family and friends, and help sustain health and energy.