Enjoy growing your own food and cutting your bills in half this year. Mother Earth News Guide to Growing Your Own Food is filled from cover to cover with the best articles on gardening, preserving, backyard chickens, beekeeping and more. With the help of this 100-page guide, you'll get the satisfaction of saving money and eating homegrown food all year long.

Read about 20 crops that will keep and how you can store them. Follow vertical gardening tips and techniques so you can grow bigger beans, tomatoes, cantaloupes and more. Not only can you eat homegrown food, but your backyard flock can, too, when you learn to grow your own all-natural poultry feed. Discover new facts about growing blueberries, potatoes, Asian greens and radishes.

Other articles include:

• Cut Your Food Bills in Half! - It's true! You can enjoy better and healthier food while spending much less to feed your family.
• Building Fertile Soil - Use cover crops, mulches and no-till permanent beds to boost soil health and your garden yields.
• Wise Watering - Conservation-based watering techniques and equipment will keep your crops healthy and yields abundant.
• Keep Bees, Naturally! - Enjoy the sweet rewards of beekeeping by learning how to harvest fresh, delicious honey from your own backyard.
• Grow Chives! - Snip fine-flavored, crispy green chives over a baked potato or salad for a colorful, tasty garnish.
• The Incredible Versatility of Eggs - Pastured, free-range eggs can star in numerous egg recipes, from simple fried eggs and bacon to an elegant soufflé.

The editors at Mother Earth News have compiled the best information to help readers save money on food costs by growing their own food. Every thing from fertilizing your garden to backyard chicken basics, from organic pest control to composting is included, along with so much more.

Perfect for anyone looking for tips and tricks to eat better and save money, the seventh edition of the Mother Earth News Guide to Growing Your Own Food has advice for growing tomatoes, preserving fresh food, raising chickens for meat, and much more!

Learn how to use cold frames to grow more food. Discover how to keep bees naturally. Get the best eggs ever from your backyard chickens. Try fresh spring recipes using ingredients straight from the garden.

Other articles include:

• Seed-Starting Basics: Start seeds yourself to get a jump on the growing season and enjoy unique plant varieties.
• 21st Century Homestead Food Security: By working with the land, we can produce much of our own food.
• Container Gardening with Vegetables and Herbs: Lacking a good garden spot? Create a bountiful, diverse garden in containers.
• Raising Rabbits for Meat and Breeding Stock: These multipurpose lagomorphs require little and yield lots; an ideal quality that supports raising rabbits for meat.
• To Bake the Best Bread Grind Your Own Grain: Healthy reasons you should consider grinding your own grain at home.

The MOTHER EARTH NEWS Guide to Healing Herbs, 3rd Edition is filled with more than 131 herbs for growing, cooking and healing. You'll learn 21 recipes for better health, read about in-depth plant profiles, make your own cough drops, find cancer-fighting herbs and more.

Keep your body healthy this winter season with all the tips and helpful articles from the Mother Earth News Guide to Healing Herbs, 4th Edition. This 100-page guide is filled with articles that cover everything from making your own herbal medicines to creating herbal vinegars. You'll be able to read about the best herbal remedies; learn about antibacterial food and herbs; dive into making your own natural arthritis remedies; or discover how to use calendula for treating those minor burns, bruises and inflammation.

Guide to Healing Herbs is separated into six sections that cover everything from medicines to healthy recipes. Filled with beautiful color photos, this guide will arm you with valuable information on keeping you and your family healthy and happy this winter season.

Other articles include:

• Guide to Aromatherapy - Diminish stress, boost energy and improve mood by learning the basics of this ancient art.
• Sweet Medicine - Honey is rich with healing antibacterial, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties.
• Natural Dental Health - Keep chemicals off your pearly whites with these expert tips.
• Herbs for Skin - Find relief for skin disease including eczema, psoriasis and rosacea.
• Drying Herbs & Spices - Growing and drying herbs is one of the easiest forms of food preservation.
• Stealth Health With Culinary Herbs - Discover the everyday healing power of flavorful culinary herbs.

More and more households are using herbs and herbal remedies for growing, cooking and healing. The fifth edition of the MOTHER EARTH NEWS Guide to Healing Herbs is filled with articles to help guide you through growing and using herbs. Learn the household uses for tea tree oil, witch hazel, turmeric, cinnamon and more. Read what herbs you should have on hand in your medicine chest and what herbs help with what ailment. Delicious recipes and helpful gardening tips are also included.

Filled with beautiful color photos, this guide will arm you with the most valuable information on keeping your family happy and healthy this cold and flu season with natural, herbal remedies.

Other articles include:

• Guide to Home Herbalism: Learn these herbal medicine-making basics.
• Herbal Hair Care: Try these herbal tips and recipes on your hair.
• Medicines in Your Spice Rack: Turn to remedies that are likely already available in your kitchen.
• How to Be a Seed Eater: Add nutritious seeds to recipes for a tasty health boost.
• Growing, Harvesting and Using Rosemary: Grow rosemary for numerous culinary and health benefits.

The newest edition of Guide to Healing Herbs is packed with valuable and illuminating information on more than 125 herbs for healing, cooking and growing! This 100-page guide is filled with articles on herbs, herbal remedies, healthy recipes and more.

Mother Earth News Guide To Living on Less, 3rd Edition

Are you looking for simple ideas to save money? The Mother Earth News Guide to Living on Less, 3rd Edition has dozens of ideas to help you save money on food, housing and energy, while also living a greener life.

The articles featured are fun and will help you save a few dollars. Some tips and advice included in these articles include:

• Cut Your Food Bills in Half
• Backyard Chicken Basics
• Adding Insulation Can Save You Money!
• Brew Your Own Beer
• Start Your Own Tool-Sharing Program
• And more!

This great, money-saving guide will teach you how to keep a family cow and have delicious milk, cream, cheese and more! You'll find everything you need to know from buying and caring for a dairy cow to enjoying and saving money on delicious dairy products.

You'll also find articles on building a passive solar water heater, homegrown medicine, building a sturdy clothesline, home energy improvements and more!

Get ready, it’s time to start living on less and loving it!

The sixth edition of Mother Earth News Guide to Living on Less is filled with articles on DIY projects, organic gardening, modern homesteading, livestock and more. The great thing that all of these articles have in common: saving you money!

Are you looking for simple ideas to save money? The Mother Earth News Guide to Living on Less, 7th Edition has dozens of ideas to help you save money on food, housing, and energy, while also living a greener life. This 100-page guide is packed full of articles for earning a living on a farm by building a tiny home without a mortgage, planting a bountiful garden, raising livestock, and more.

Cut down on your food and energy bills with the Guide to Living on Less and Loving it! from the Mother Earth News Wiser Living Series. Create a sustainable farm by growing your own food and raising your own chickens for meat or eggs. Heat water with the sun, make old-fashioned homemade soap, and raise goats for milk. Live self-reliantly with 65 tips for a DIY lifestyle, and make the best syrup straight from a tree. Save (and possibly earn!) money with tips to cutting your food bills in half, building your own home, and earning a living from a rural setting or from your own home. Get wise and save money with the Guide to Living Less and Loving It!

More than 231 tips for using herbs for self-reliant living, cooking and healing are covered in this glossy-paged guide from MOTHER EARTH NEWS. The Guide to Natural Health covers a variety of topics from learning which herbs to use for natural skin care, great gardening tips, to boosting your brain health, this guide is filled from cover-to-cover with valuable information, tips, advice and recipes for natural health.

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.

There's no time like the present to start planning and plotting your garden! With the help of the 5th edition of Mother Earth News Guide to Organic Garden you can plan for food self-sufficiency year-round. Written for both beginners and seasoned gardeners, this 100-page guide is filled with articles that will make your garden healthy and bountiful for growing vegetables, fruits and herbs.

An information-packed beginner's guide article will help you discover the joys of gardening, including everything from instructions on building the soil to a list of beginner-friendly crops to grow and harvest. Other articles cover how to make your own compost, improve your soil, build your own mini greenhouses, and keep chickens in your garden.

Read the hows and whys to creating permanent garden beds and paths, and why framed or raised beds may be optional. Discover the key factors in maintaining a weedless organic garden. Learn how to grow strawberries, peppers, potatoes and more.

More articles include:

• Make Cheap Garden Beds: Here's how - and why - to create permanent garden beds and paths, and why framed or raised beds may be optional.
• Best Tips to Start Seeds Indoors: Save money and grow superior varieties by starting your own seeds.
• Choosing a Greenhouse: Grow food for the table - and the spirit - any time of the year.
• 4 Garden Plans for Kitchen Herbs: Supplement your food garden with a patch of delightful herbs.
• Homesteader's Guide to Little Tractors: Miniature machines are available in a wide range of capability and price.

It’s never too early to start planning this year’s garden. Where to plant your herbs? Where should your row of cabbage grow? How many tomato plants should you have? The sixth edition of the Guide to Organic Gardening from Mother Earth News is a great reference to help you plan your bountiful garden this year. Starting with soil, fertilizer, seed starting, what plants you should grow and so much more, this guide is 100 pages of helpful articles to help you grow your best garden yet!

Read how to build better soil with free organic fertilizer. Learn how beneficial chickens in the garden can be! Discover the best summer cover crops to help suppress those pesky weeds. Follow instructions on how to grow great lettuce, strawberries, potatoes, carrots, beans, peas and more!

More articles include:

• Grow More Food in a Movable Greenhouse: Boost productivity in spring, summer, fall and winter with a do-it-yourself greenhouse you can transport around your plot.
• Plant Pollination Primer: Learn the facts on how insects and wind pollinate your crops so you can plant smarter and haul in heftier harvests.
• How to Make Compost: Choose from many easy ways to make compost for increased garden productivity – low-cost homemade bins, piles sans bins, chicken power, pest-proof tumblers … even indoor worm bins!
• 4 Garden Plans for Kitchen Herbs: Supplement your food garden with a patch of delightful herbs.
• Expert Tips for Growing Early Tomatoes: Add a whole month to your fresh-tomato season with these proven techniques.

The editors at MOTHER EARTH NEWS have compiled the best money-saving articles into one invaluable guide. Guide to Saving Money on Food will help you cut your food bills in half with simple bread recipes, instructions how to preserve your own food, gardening techniques, tips on grocery shopping, and so much more.

Turn your dreams of country living into a reality! The Mother Earth News Guide to Self-Reliance and Country Skills, 4th Edition is 100 pages of beneficial articles that will assist anyone wanting to live a more self-sufficient life. Nothing compares to the feeling of enjoying a meal that was raised and grown on your own land … no matter if it’s just the delicious preserves from your garden or the entire feast. There are also great articles on solar heating and other energy savings tips that will save you hundreds on your energy bills.

Several articles in this special issue provide useful and helpful tips on how to plan and maintain a successful self-sufficient homestead, from picking the perfect property to caring for the garden and livestock.

More articles included:
• Homesteading Lessons Learned: From planning your home to laying out garden beds, a longtime homesteading expert shares his advice 20 years in the making.
• Start a Self-Sufficient, 1-Acre Homestead: Live off the land with these strategies for establishing self-sufficient food production, including advice on crop rotations and raising livestock.
• Cut Your Food Bills in Half: You can enjoy better and healthier food while spending much less to feed your family.
• How to Make Cheap Garden Beds: Here’s how (and why) to create permanent garden beds and paths, and why framed or raised beds may be optional.
• Want Milk? Get Goats: Dairy goats can supply your family with milk inexpensively.
• Make Your Own Herbal Medicine: To find ingredients for many basic herbal remedies, you often need to look no further than your own backyard.

This incredible resource as all the information you need to make your own herbal medicine, rodent-proof your house, bake easy homemade bread, find the best backyard chicken breeds, and more!