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This collection of mouthwatering recipes from Rosalind Creasy will help you celebrate the incredible flavors of the garden-fresh herbs, fruit and vegetables waiting in your backyard. Feast on delicious, fresh salads, and indulge with several delectable appetizers and entrees.

Featuring delicious recipes for vegetarians and meat eaters for family breakfasts, solo lunches and grand, celebratory dinners, this indispensable cookbook will broaden your food horizons and inspire countless delicious and healthy meals.

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From oats, rice and whole wheat to farro, barley and quinoa, no grain is left unexplored in this compendium of more than 75 healthful recipes. You'll find a tasty dish for every meal of the day: Quick Skillet Flatbreads made with millet or teff for breakfast, or a hearty dinner entree of lamb and rye berries braised in red wine. Even desserts get the whole-grain touch with such sweets as Chocolate-Chunk Buckwheat Cookies.

The source list will help you find the more unusual options, and a glossary describes each grain in detail. The New Whole Grains Cookbook makes it easy to eat your grains and love them, too.

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We've assembled our most-popular recipes and home-cooking articles and now we're making them available to you in this easy-to-use CD-ROM format, just like our popular Mother Earth News Archive on CD-ROM.

Selected from nearly 40 years of material, this collection provides 330 all-natural, down-home and delicious recipes.

You'll find recipes for:

• Grandfather's Beef and Vegetable Stew
• Superquick Ricotta
• Parmesan Parsley Millet Muffins
• Spicy Eggplant Salad
• Caponata
• Homemade Jerky
• Tabouli
• Lentil Burgers
• Sprout Hummus
• BBQ Chicken
• Root Beer
• Chocolate Cupcake-Muffins
• Gooseberry Pie
• Cornelian Cherry Preserve
• And many more!

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Mother Earth News Guide To Growing Your Own Food

This year, enjoy the benefits of growing and eating your own food! The latest installment of the Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series 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 DIY 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 Guide To Growing Your Own Food. Learn how to make no-dig garden beds. Find out the secret to successfully growing your favorite food plants in pots. Read the five key strategies for enjoying fresh tomatoes all year round! And more!

This is the downloadable e-book version of the Mother Earth News: Guide to Growing Your Own Food. To order a print copy by mail, click here.

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Selected from nearly 40 years of material, this special all-solar collection of 111 articles includes a wide selection of do-it-yourself projects and practical advice for harnessing the power of the sun.

In this information-packed CD, you'll find articles on everything from making your own solar heat grabber to building solar cookers, to advice on passive solar design.

This great resource has 111 articles, including:

• A Simple Solar-Heated Shower
• A Passively Heated and Cooled Home
• Recycle a Refrigerator into a Solar Water Heater
• Mother's Solar Tracking Heater
• "Recycled" Solar Homes
• Warm Your Swine with Sunshine
• Plumbing Up Mother's Solar Furnace
• A Homemade Solar Water Heater
• Solar on a Shoestring Series
• A Solar Food Dryer with Cardboard Boxes
• Storm Window Solar Panels
• Economy Solar To Go
• Pedaling with Power
• And many more!

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Grain harvesting can be done in small spaces. With Homegrown Whole Grains, you'll learn how to grow, harvest and cook nine nutritious whole grains. From wheat and rice to heirloom grains, this book covers everything you need for a successful grain harvest.

All you need to start grain harvesting is to convert part of your yard into a field of grain. After the harvest you can enjoy nutritious whole grains, using them whole in delicious recipes or milling them into flour for artisan breads and other baked goods. Barley, quinoa, millet, buckwheat and oats are among the grains you’ll learn to take from yard to plate.

Author Sara Pitzer started this book 30 years ago, when she wrote Wholegrains for the original folks of the back-to-the-land movement. Today, she writes about grain harvesting with a different attitude, one that helps modern homesteaders grow their own food at a smaller, more manageable scale.

For the gardener who is eager to grow more than a variety of vegetables, this grain harvesting book will become a dear resource. Each of the nine grains featured in Homegrown Whole Grains has a different flavor and use. By harvesting them at home, you'll be able to make such varied foods as whole grain pasta, as well as add variety to homegrown food.

About the Author: Sara Pitzer has learned and written about grains in Pennsylvania's Amish country, California, the American Southeast, Thailand and Peru. She is the author of more than a dozen cookbooks and travel guides.

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Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë François have proved that people want to bake fresh, homemade bread with their groundbreaking, hugely popular first cookbook, Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. Now, the Artisan revolution continues for those who are changing the way they eat and bake because of health concerns or lifestyle choices. Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day takes Hertzberg and François’ established methods and applies them to breads rich in nutrition and flavor.

Packed with 100 new healthy bread recipes featuring whole grains, fruits, vegetables and gluten-free ingredients, Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day will show you how the "secret" to gourmet, homemade bread in five minutes a day works with super-healthy ingredients, too. This book covers everything you need to know about baking healthy breads, including chapters outlining the techniques behind delicious, nutritional bread as well as detailed descriptions of the ingredients and equipment you need to turn your kitchen into an artisan bakery. This book is guaranteed to rise … to the top!

About the authors:

Jeff Hertzberg, M.D., is a physician with 20 years of experience as a practitioner, consultant and faculty member at the University of Minnesota Medical School. His interests in baking and preventative health sparked a quest to adapt the techniques of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day for healthier ingredients. Zoë François is a pastry chef trained at the Culinary Institute of America who teaches baking and pastry courses nationally and consults to the food industry.

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Biodynamic gardening is about respect for nature, sustainability and spiritual ecology-but most of all it is about flavorsome, nutritious and real food; This biodynamic cookbook by Wendy E Cook, has all the recipes to prove it.

The Biodynamic Food and Cookbook is a source rich in information, beautifully illustrated and packed with healthy yet tasty recipes.

Biodynamic gardening and cooking is a movement that is supported by top chefs, expert viniculturists and numerous celebrities. Even Prince Charles has introduced its methods at his Gloucestershire farm. Yet biodynamic agriculture had humble beginnings, and is based on the approach of caring for the environment.

In 1924, a small group gathered to hear the philosopher and scientist Rudolf Steiner give a series of lectures. At a time when industrial farming and mass production were on the rise, Steiner spoke of the qualitative aspects of food and outlined an agricultural method founded on a holistic perception of nature. Today, more than ever, biodynamic farming and cooking goes beyond organic labels to embrace a real connection with the land.

Illustrated with hundreds of full-color photographs, The Biodynamic Food and Cookbook explains the principles behind biodynamics and places it in the context of food and cooking throughout the ages. This cookbook has a Mediterranean base, and includes recipe sections on bread, sauces, salads, desserts and drinks.

Wendy Cook takes us on a journey through the four seasons, presenting over 150 delicious recipes based on many years of working with biodynamic nutrition. She studies the ethics of food, the foundations of a balanced diet, and conjures up the color and vibrancy of Mallorca, the Spanish island that has contributed so much to her personal approach.

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Nothing tastes better than ripe, juicy, sun-warmed, summer-fresh tomatoes! Discover new ways to enjoy them with this delicious collection of 150 tempting recipes for appetizers, preserves, soups, salads, entrees and even desserts. Includes contributions from celebrity chefs Alice Waters, Deborah Madison, Daniel Boulud, Rick Bayless, Melissa Kelly and many others, as well as eight pages of mouthwatering full-color photography by Sabra Krock.