Hide This is the book for anyone who hunts, farms, or buys large quantities of meat. The author takes the mystery out of slaughtering and butchering everything from beef and veal, to venison, pork and lamb. The text is clear and easy-to- follow.

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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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Of all the Made at Home titles, perhaps this one speaks loudest to the popularity of homegrown foods. The smoked bacon, salamis and heady cheeses we love are prime candidates for handcrafted taste. Curing and Smoking demonstrates how simple it is to use the magic of smoke to create wonderfully aromatic foods with distinctive flavors.

The book follows the curing and smoking processes from beginning to end, from creating a purpose-made pantry to storage. Topics include drying, curing, hot smoking, cold smoking, indoor smoking, drying and wrapping, and vacuum packing. Foods are not limited to meats and cheeses, but include fruits and vegetables, fish, ciders, and seafood. Even eggs can be smoked or cured. Original and delicious recipes offer up such delights as jams and jellies, hot-smoked oysters, and fresh tomato salsa. Curing and Smoking is ideal for adventurous cooks, modern pioneers and all food crafters.

About the Made at Home book series

A new series for living the good life!

Father-and-son team Dick and James Strawbridge have long lived the good life on their small acreage, and now they’re sharing their years of knowledge and experience with readers via their Made at Home series of books. This exciting collection draws on the invaluable wisdom they’ve gleaned while producing an abundance of good things to eat and drink: organic fruits and vegetables grown, juiced, fermented, and preserved; pigs smoked for ham, sausages, salamis, and bacon; a mixed flock of birds used for eggs and eating; and bees raised for honey. It's an enviable lifestyle driven by a desire to eat well every day.

And it doesn’t require a lot of space. Made at Home contains numerous adaptations to urban and suburban life. Plants are grown in small lots and pots, chickens are kept in backyard pens, and meat items are smoked in the backyard. It’s proof positive that anyone can live the good life.

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A guide to raising chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys, with 27 recipes

Backyard poultry have gained popularity in recent years as some municipalities loosen regulations to allow homeowners to keep coops. Raising poultry is a sustainable activity, which in relatively little space produces fresh eggs and meat.

Eggs and Poultry is organized in five sections. The first four cover everything needed to successfully keep the most popular types of poultry: chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys. It discusses the pros and cons of each and provides all the information needed to start out, including building a shelter, planning runs and ponds, dealing with pests and problems, laying and breeding, incubating and hatching, slaughter, and plucking and drawing. Butcher skills are also illustrated.

The 80-page recipe section features 27 delicious dishes and explains the essentials of cooking with eggs and poultry, from deboning a chicken and other butcher skills to cooking methods such as coddling eggs. Recipes include Eggs Benedict, Smoked Eggs with Halloumi, Turkey Pie, Crispy Duck with Pancakes, Southwestern Fried Chicken, Confit Duck with Caramelized Orange and Fennel Salad, Lemon Pepper Chicken Nuggets, The Ultimate Turkey Burger and Goose Livers with Cider.

Eggs and Poultry is aimed directly at an audience who dream of, or are actually enjoying, the authors' made-at-home lifestyle. It is a beautiful and practical addition to the cookbook shelf.

About the Made at Home book series

A new series for living the good life!

Father-and-son team Dick and James Strawbridge have long lived the good life on their small acreage, and now they’re sharing their years of knowledge and experience with readers via their Made at Home series of books. This exciting collection draws on the invaluable wisdom they’ve gleaned while producing an abundance of good things to eat and drink: organic fruits and vegetables grown, juiced, fermented, and preserved; pigs smoked for ham, sausages, salamis, and bacon; a mixed flock of birds used for eggs and eating; and bees raised for honey. It's an enviable lifestyle driven by a desire to eat well every day.

And it doesn’t require a lot of space. Made at Home contains numerous adaptations to urban and suburban life. Plants are grown in small lots and pots, chickens are kept in backyard pens, and meat items are smoked in the backyard. It’s proof positive that anyone can live the good life.

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Order your copy, signed by authors Oscar H. Will III and Karen K. Will, today! Fueled by a failing economy and a passionate desire for a return to simpler times, a new wave of homesteaders is seeking the good life, and the kind of true satisfaction that can only be built, not bought. Many of these modern pioneers are cash poor, but rich in energy and creativity. Plowing with Pigs and Other Creative, Low-Budget Homesteading Solutions offers them a set of fresh ideas for achieving independence through sweat equity and the use of unconventional resources.

This highly readable and entertaining guide brings together answers to common problems faced by homesteaders young and old, urban, suburban, and rural. Traditional knowledge is combined with MacGyver-style ingenuity to create projects that maximize available resources, including:

• Animal management strategies for the yard, garden, and field
• Pole building and construction techniques from woodlot materials
• Replacing farm machinery with homemade hand tools and implements
• Leveraging increased self-sufficiency into a home-based business

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Starter Coops provides clear, detailed instructions for building and maintaining backyard chicken coops. Before bringing home chickens, hobbyists must first build a housing structure for their soon-to-be flock. This how-to guide offers everything there is to know about building a chicken coop, from deciding which type of structure fits your purpose and financial needs to adding the appropriate color and décor. Author Wendy Bedwell-Wilson also goes beyond the building of the coop to offer information about routine maintenance and troubleshooting tips for managing bugs and varmints. This book offers a solution to any issue that may arise when building and caring for your chicken coop. With its entertaining yet precise and practical tone, Starter Coops is the perfect guide for novice, small-scale chicken owners.

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Looking to start raising rabbits for meat? Want to be successful in the rabbit show ring? Wondering how you can keep those pesky wild rabbits out of your garden? GRIT's Guide to Backyard Rabbits is the answer to all these questions and many more. Inside this 100-page guide you'll find more than 25 keys to a successful rabbit-raising enterprise. Nearly 20 articles are included, as well as heartwarming photos and an "ID That Bunny" challenge to test your knowledge of backyard rabbits.

The entire rabbit-raising spectrum is covered in this second edition of Guide to Backyard Rabbits. Learn about raising rabbits for meat and breeding stock. Build rabbits homes and learn what equipment you'll need. Read about a basic bunny diet that will keep them happy and healthy. Discover new rabbit recipes as well as readers' favorites. And learn interesting rabbit facts and bizarre bunny history … such as where the tale of the Easter Bunny originates, and much more!

Other articles include:

• Hot-Weather Care That Pays Off Year-Round: Keeping your bunnies cool during the blazing heat of summer brings a litter of benefits.
• Hay for Hutch: Make tons of rabbit feed the easy way.
• The Rabbit House: If you're more of a "hands-off" type of animal husband, keeping rabbits all together in a colony - rather than individual cages - may appeal to you.
• Ban Bunnies From Your Vegetable Patch: Build this safe, simple and humane trap to keep uninvited critters out of your garden.
• On to the Rabbit Shows!: An excerpt from Storey's Guide to Raising Rabbits provides information for those wanting to show off their bunnies.
• Professional Rabbitry: If you've considered making the leap from hobby to business, read this advice from a professional conservation breeder.

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Calling all chicken enthusiasts! The fourth edition of GRIT's Guide to Backyard Chickens is overflowing with expert advice, key facts and easy chicken coop plans that will have both beginner and seasoned chicken owners crowing for joy! The 100 pages cover everything from hatching a flock to building the Whizbang Chicken Plucker.

Read how to build a broiler coop on a shoestring budget. Build the perfect chicken tractor. Learn which heritage hens are best for egg-laying. Understand how to use poultry as your secret weapon in pest control. Follow the wide variety of delicious chicken recipes this book has to offer.

Or maybe you're interested in raising guineas, ducks or turkeys? Learn how guineas can eliminate ticks from your property. Ducks can provide eggs, meat and entertainment. Discover nine facts about the unsuspecting turkey that you might not know.

More articles include:

• Heritage Breeds or Modern Hybrids: Two expert opinions on chicken breed selection.
• The Ever-Versatile Egg: Try these recipes to turn your dishes up a notch and hone tried-and-true techniques.
• Doghouse Chicken Tractor: Making do can often yield a more satisfying result than buying new.
• Wintering Chickens: Fowl weather lies ahead; follow a few easy steps, and your flock won't be vulnerable.
• Home on the (Free-) Range: "Where the hens and the rooster are happy all day …"
• Build a Weatherproof, Pest-Proof Chicken Feeder: Feed your flock without encouraging mold or supporting the local mouse and starling populations.

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If you want to incubate, hatch and brood chicks yourself, rather than buying them from a hatchery, this is the guide you need. Poultry authority Gail Damerow explains exactly how to hatch healthy baby chickens, ducklings, goslings, turkey poults and guinea keets, addressing everything from selecting a breed and choosing the best incubator to ensuring proper setup and sanitary conditions, understanding embryo development, and feeding and caring for newborn chicks in a brooder. This is an indispensable reference for any poultry raiser, whether you want to hatch three eggs or 100.

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MOTHER EARTH NEWS and GRIT come together to bring you 600 pages of expert advice, recipes, do-it-yourself projects and more information on living a self-sufficient life. This set covers everything from organic gardening to bees and honey, from backyard rabbits to self-reliance and country skills. The do-it-yourself projects include energy-saving household updates as well as instructions for constructing chicken coops, outdoor bread ovens and permanent garden beds. Follow recipes for baking sourdough bread, preparing rabbit meat, fixing delicious egg dishes, and cooking with honey. Discover how to save money with energy-saving tips for your home, and how to cut your food bills in half by growing your own food right in your own backyard.

This set includes:
MOTHER EARTH NEWS Guide to Organic Gardening, 4th Edition
This glossy-paged guide is perfect for beginners or expert gardeners. It covers everything from perennial vegetables to choosing a greenhouse, from organic pest control to making compost. Read how poultry is the secret weapon for organic pest control. Learn how to make the best homemade tomato cages. Or plan out your kitchen garden with four delightful herb gardens plans.

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, this special guide has a wide variety of information that will help you lead a sustainable life.

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

GRIT Guide to Backyard Rabbits, 2nd Edition
You'll find more than 25 keys to a successful rabbit-raising enterprise in this special Barnyard Series guide. Learn about raising rabbits for meat and breeding stock. Build rabbit homes and learn what equipment you'll need. Read about a basic bunny diet that will keep them happy and healthy, and also discover so much more.

GRIT Guide to Backyard Chickens, 4th Edition
Calling all chicken enthusiasts! The fourth edition of this popular guide is overflowing with expert advice, key facts and easy chicken coop plans that will have both beginner and seasoned chicken owners crowing for joy! Read how to build a broiler coop on a shoestring budget. Build the perfect chicken tractor. Learn which heritage hens are the best for laying eggs. Follow the wide variety of delicious chicken recipes this book has to offer.

GRIT Guide to Backyard Bees and Honey, 3rd Edition
This treasure-trove of bee knowledge has more than 75 ways to get more from your bees. Cover-to-cover, this guide includes tips on saving money while building your own beehive or honey extractor with simple materials available at your local hardware store. Read how to use a top-bar hive, a less expensive method to raising bees that will pollinate your crops and provide tasty honey fresh from the comb.