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Find a hundred great ideas for any garden with Mother Earth News Guide to Organic Gardening, Third Edition. The third edition of Guide to Organic Gardening is packed with great advice, tips and photos to help you have the most bountiful garden yet.

This 100-page guide has everything you need to create the garden of your dreams. Everything from natural insect control to tomato cage plans, from fertilizer to growing berries is covered in this colorful, helpful guide. The editors of Mother Earth News have compiled the best gardening-related articles and put them all in this glossy-paged guide. Articles such as:

• Grow Cover Crops for the Best Garden Soil
• The 10 Worst Garden Weeds
• Free, Homemade Liquid Fertilizers
• Worms! Soil-Building Workhorses
• Grow Superb Strawberries
• Crunchy, Colorful Carrots
• And more!

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Just how high will gas prices go? Nobody knows, but you can save money on gas now and find the right fuel-efficient vehicle for your needs via our new Guide to Green Cars. With reviews of more than 50 cars that get 35-plus mpg, proven tips for maximizing mpg, and the latest on hybrid, electric, clean diesel and flex-fuel vehicles, this 100-page special issue will be an invaluable resource whether you need a new ride now or down the road.

Articles in this guide include:

• Buying a Green Car
• Living with a Plug-In Hybrid
• Fuel from Plants! The Basics of Biofuels
• The Truth About Electric Car Safety
• How to Calculate Gas Mileage
• Best Green Large Vehicles
• And many more!

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More then 119 herbs for growing, cooking and healing are covered in this glossy-paged guide from MOTHER EARTH NEWS. The Guide to Women's Health covers a variety of topics for women of every age. From learning which herbs you should be using at what age, to strengthening your bones, this guide is filled from cover-to-cover with valuable information, tips, advice and recipes for women's health.

This 100-page guide has helpful tips and advice for which ever stage of life you're in. Articles in this guide include:

• 5 Herbs for Women's Health
• Color Your Hair Naturally
• Natural Fertility Enhancers
• Healing by Way of Berries
• Breathe Well, Be Well
• And much more!

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Enjoy a bountiful garden harvest this fall with the informative articles in this third edition of the MOTHER EARTH NEWS How to Grow and Preserve Your Own Food. From cover to cover, this glossy-paged guide contains tips and techniques for growing your own fruits and vegetables, and preserving them using simple, easy-to-learn techniques.

Learn how to grow winter tomatoes indoors all through the season; harvest the freshest mushrooms with the help of a do-it-yourself kit; discover how to make sauerkraut; and more. This guide includes detailed articles on extending your growing season with greenhouses and cold frames, including how to build an easy hoop house for less than $1,000. You'll also learn how to build better soil with free organic fertilizers (including two you won't even need to pay for.)

The editors of MOTHER EARTH NEWS have filled this 100-page guide with some of their best gardening and preserving articles. Articles include:

• Savor Summer's Harvest All Year Long
• Instant No-Dig Garden Beds
• Use Wood Mulch to Build Great Garden Soil
• Build a Solar Food Dehydrator
• Grow Sage: Simple, Beautiful, Delicious

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At 100 full-color pages each, the new GRIT Country Skills Series Set brings you the latest information on beekeeping, backyard chickens, backyard rabbits and homemade bread! You'll get 32 recipes for cooking with honey, more than 27 keys to a healthy flock, keys to a productive rabbitry, eight fail-proof no-knead bread recipes and much more!

The GRIT Country Skills Series Set includes:
GRIT's Guide to Backyard Bees and Honey
Catch the latest buzz with GRIT'S Guide to Backyard Bees and Honey. This new addition to GRIT'S Country Skills Series is filled with more than 75 keys to better beekeeping, beautiful color photos, recipes and more! Discover if you know your backyard bees, cooking with honey, build a honey extractor, read fail-proof beehive installation and much more!

GRIT's Guide to Backyard Chickens, 3rd Edition
GRIT is proud to introduce the 3rd edition of GRIT's Guide to Backyard Chickens. This invaluable guide covers almost everything for raising backyard chickens, from hatching chicks to pest control, from recycled coops to chicken-inspired recipes. Advice on barnyard chicken basics is included along with information on ducks, turkeys, guineas and more.

GRIT's Guide to Homemade Bread, 2nd Edition
A treasure trove of knowledge, this bread guide includes more than 31 keys to baking successful homemade bread. It covers outdoor bread ovens, bread machines, sourdough secrets, no-knead bread, gluten-free treats and more.

GRIT's Guide to Backyard Rabbits
GRIT's Guide to Backyard Rabbits, the first edition in the GRIT Barnyard Series, is packed with keys to raising and keeping backyard rabbits. The GRIT editors have compiled the best articles featuring meat rabbits, tanning hides, heritage rabbit breeds, show and pet rabbits, recipes and more. Enjoy rabbit facts, test your knowledge of rabbit breeds and learn about rabbit literature.

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Looking for a way to make delicious, homemade bread? How about advice on how to grow your best fall garden this year? Need tips for picking out chickens that produce the best eggs ever? Look no farther than this 100-page guide from MOTHER EARTH NEWS. Full of articles that instruct, help and point readers in the right direction for eating fresh food all year long, Guide to Real Food All Year has nearly 20 articles that cover everything from drying tomatoes to making your own cider, from growing great salads to saving time and energy with pressure cookers.

With beautiful pictures, this guide explains how to eat better and save money. Readers will learn how to choose inexpensive cuts of grass-fed beef, free-range chicken and pastured pork for better nutrition and great flavor. Gardeners will read how to grow colorful heirloom corns for improved nutrition and great taste. Farmers market goers will learn how to dry the harvest they buy to stock up on homegrown snacks and convenience foods for year-round eating.

Articles include:

• Homemade Butter: The Best You'll Ever Have
• Why Whole Wheat Is Way Better
• Simple Tips for Better Garden Soil
• Use Cold Frames to Grow More Food
• Learn to Can for Homegrown Flavor

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Bread, bagels, pretzels, pizza crust, cookies and more! All of these delicious homemade creations can be found in GRIT's Guide to Homemade Bread, 3rd Edition. This guide includes more than 53 keys to successful bread making, outdoor bread oven plans, fail-proof no-knead breads, top bread machine tips and more.

The editors of GRIT have compiled some of the best homemade bread baking articles into one convenient 100-page guide. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned baker you will find tips and advice from bread baking experts. Learn how bread works and the difference between the types of flours. Read about cooking gluten-free bread and using seven indispensable ingredients to make the transition easier. Find new recipes to put that stale bread to use in cakes, soups, puddings and more.

Articles include:

• Homemade Bread: Truly Easy and Delicious
• Whole Grain Guide
• Baking Bread in Five Minutes a Day
• Choosing a Grain Mill
• Cornmeal to Cornbread
• Biscuits and More
• Build an All-in-One Outdoor Over, Stove, Grill and Smoker

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Bring back the holidays with the new CAPPER's Farmer Holiday Special. Experience the nostalgia of homemade gifts, classic recipes, and more traditions from Christmases past on the farm. From roasting a turkey 1860s style to creating homemade gift jars, from satisfying the seasonal sweet tooth to savoring the songs of Christmas, this special edition offers up a buffet of knowledge.

In the more than 20 articles, you'll find delicious recipes, beautiful pictures and memorable holiday stories from CAPPER's readers just like you. Read "Party Like the Pilgrims" and learn classic and contemporary recipes to fix for your Thanksgiving feast. Bake scrumptious treats from everyone's favorite squash in "The Great Pumpkin." Learn how festive firs have long participated in the traditional American Christmas celebration in "O Christmas Tree!" "Make Your Own Soap" teaches you how to make beautiful homemade bars of soap to give for holiday gifts.

More articles include:

• Heart of the Home: Far From Home for the Holidays - Readers recall holidays spent in unfamiliar surroundings.
• The Sweetest Thing - Upgrade your standby cookie recipes to showstopping holiday gifts.
• Homemade Holiday Greetings and Gifts - Make simple and functional gifts, as well as homemade greeting cards and gift boxes, bags and tags for loved ones.
• Make the Most of Playing Host - Everything you need to host a simple, elegant and stress-free gathering.
• The Happiest Homemade Christmas - A penny-pinching year teaches a young girl that joy and happiness don't come from material possessions.
• Sing the Songs of Christmas - Carols evolved as a way to communicate Christmas thought.

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Learn to cut your food bills in half. Live off the grid without using any propane. Build your own low-cost, multipurpose greenhouse. Live on less and love it with the 100-page MOTHER EARTH NEWS Guide to Self-Reliance and Country Skills, 2nd Edition. With more than 20 articles, this guide has hundreds of great ideas for self-reliant living. From preserving food to small-space gardening, from backyard chickens to making your own yogurt and cheese, Guide to Self-Reliance and Country Skills has a wide variety of information that will help you lead a sustainable life.

Bake your own crispy gorgeous homemade loaves with the simple technique covered in this guide. Learn to brew your own beer and make uniquely flavored, affordable drinks at home. Follow step-by-step advice for choosing the right woodstove for your home. Build permanent beds and paths in your garden to protect the soil and preserve its fertility. Also, enjoy reading a compilation of more than 25 of the best reader-written tips for wiser living, including a soothing herbal soak, how to freeze extra eggs, instructions for making durable tomato stakes and more.

Other articles include:

• Egg Nutrients
• Go Solar for Free Hot Water
• Keep a Family Cow and Enjoy Delicious Milk, Cream, Cheese and More
• 75 Safe and Effective Herbal Remedies
• 8 Easy Projects for Instant Energy Savings
• Have Sawmill, Will Travel