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Build a Productive Garden39 building projects transform your modest vegetable garden into a model of efficiency and comfort. For a fraction of the cost of buying retail, you can build handsome, handcrafted items that will encourage your vegetables to thrive, extend your growing season, or simply offer a place to relax among your plants. Each building project is functional, attractive, and easy to complete with basic tools.New to woodworking? Many of these projects are ideal for beginners, and most can be completed in a matter of hours or during a single weekend. Whether you are looking for support to trellis your peas and beans or a garden swing to relax in, these projects are just what your garden needs.

Turn Your Passion into a ProfessionYour devotion to horses is the key ingredient in a profitable equestrian career. Now revised and expanded, Starting & Running Your Own Horse Business offers complete advice on putting your love for horses to work. A larger selection on safety, tax and insurance advice, and many new suggestions for starting successful equestrian businesses make this new edition the must-have book for horse entrepreneurs. An experienced stable manager and practicing veterinarian, Mary Ashby McDonald shares her money-making ideas and cost-saving techniques for launching and running a successful business."Now this is a really useful horse business guide...McDonald includes a variety of  money-saving and -making suggestions." - Horse Country"If you've ever thought about starting your own horse business, be sure to pick up, well, Starting & Running Your Own Horse Business." - Horse & Rider"The ideas in this book are accurate and solid. Unfortunately, along the way, I've made many of the classic business blunders Mary mentions [in this book]. Hopefully reading this will help others avoid the same mistakes in the future." - Olympic Gold Medalist Joe Fargis, Owner/Manager/Trainer, Sandron FarmLearn How To:Create a business plan that puts your existing horses and facilities to workManage your time, your money, and your employeesChoose affordable insurance coverage that keeps your customers and your horses safe and protects you from financial liabilityOperate an exciting variety of horse ventures from camps to carriage servicesDevelop an appealing name, logo, and icon for your businessIdentify the best marketing and advertising opportunitiesOffer additional services your customers need: grooming, cleaning tack, transportation, catching and holding, consulting, administering medicationsReduce vet bills: implement sound preventative strategies and do your own vaccinating and dewormingSave on feed costs

Grow Your Best Vegetables!Join Ed Smith and hundreds of thousands of happy gardeners who are using the W-O-R-D system to grow their own delicious, abundant, organic vegetables. Already loved for its friendly advice, vegetable-specific information, and unwavering commitment to organic methods, American's best-selling vegetable-gardening book now covers more plants and offers smart new solutions for small-space and extended-season gardening.Try new and unusual varieties, page 222Grow the best tomatoes, page 307Succeed with fussy plants, page 223Master succession planting, page 49Enjoy a bountiful harvest, page 106

Pamper Your Pup With All-Natural Taste Temptations!Treat your dog to the tastiest and healthiest biscuits and bones ever made for canine consumption!  Cheryl Gianfrancesco's easy-to-follow recipes call for only the best all-natural ingredients, and as your dog will agree, the results are fantastic.  Could any dog resist Peanut Butter Biscuits, Cheese and Garlic Bites, Chicken and Cheese Biscuits, or Ginger Cookies?  How about a Best-Friend Birthday Cake, complete with frosting?  Homemade Treats for Happy, Healthy Dogs offers 50 recipes for the canine connoisseur of fine foods.  If dogs could read, this would be their favorite cookbook!

Since the 1973 publication of Storey's first Country Wisdom Bulletin, our commitment to preserving the arts, crafts, and skills of country life has never wavered. We now have more than 200 titles in this series of 32-page publications, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins contain practical, hands-on instructions designed to help you master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. From traditional skills to the newest techniques, Storey's Bulletins provide a foundation of earth-friendly information for the way you want to live today.

Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins contain practical, hands-on instructions designed to help you master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. From traditional skills to the newest techniques, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin Library provides a foundation of earth-friendly information for the way you want to live today.

Since the 1973 publication of Storey's first Country Wisdom Bulletin, our commitment to preserving the arts, crafts, and skills of country life has never wavered. We now have more than 200 titles in this series of 32-page publications, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins contain practical, hands-on instructions designed to help you master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. From traditional skills to the newest techniques, Storey's Bulletins provide a foundation of earth-friendly information for the way you want to live today.

Since the 1973 publication of Storey's first Country Wisdom Bulletin, our commitment to preserving the arts, crafts, and skills of country life has never wavered. We now have more than 200 titles in this series of 32-page publications, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins contain practical, hands-on instructions designed to help you master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. From traditional skills to the newest techniques, Storey's Bulletins provide a foundation of earth-friendly information for the way you want to live today.

Since the 1973 publication of Storey's first Country Wisdom Bulletin, our commitment to preserving the arts, crafts, and skills of country life has never wavered. We now have more than 200 titles in this series of 32-page publications, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins contain practical, hands-on instructions designed to help you master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. From traditional skills to the newest techniques, Storey's Bulletins provide a foundation of earth-friendly information for the way you want to live today.

Since the 1973 publication of Storey's first Country Wisdom Bulletin, our commitment to preserving the arts, crafts, and skills of country life has never wavered. We now have more than 200 titles in this series of 32-page publications, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins contain practical, hands-on instructions designed to help you master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. From traditional skills to the newest techniques, Storey's Bulletins provide a foundation of earth-friendly information for the way you want to live today.

No kitchen should be without these fifteen beautiful, versatile, aromatic, and savory wonders of the culinary world. These herbs form the backbone of the quintessential kitchen garden and are the flavorful basis of many a delectable dish. If you're looking for simple ways to spice up your cooking, these herbs are your answer!Of course, the best way to get to know herbs--and to guarantee yourself of their fine quality-- is to grow them yourself. Whether you own acres in the country or a studio apartment in the city, you can cultivate, harvest, preserve, and use these herbs with minimal effort--and Grow 15 Herbs for the Kitchen will show you how!

Since the 1973 publication of Storey's first Country Wisdom Bulletin, our commitment to preserving the arts, crafts, and skills of country life has never wavered. We now have more than 200 titles in this series of 32-page publications, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life. Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins contain practical, hands-on instructions designed to help you master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. From traditional skills to the newest techniques, Storey's Bulletins provide a foundation of earth-friendly information for the way you want to live today.

Walk, trot, canter, and gallop your way through a variety of mazes and word puzzles-all related to playful ponies! Jackie and Barney will help you unsnarl four ponies' tangled Lead Lines (page 30) and fill out a Check List for going to a show (page 52), as well as bring you plenty of jokes, riddles, and other fun activities.

Discover the comfort of easy gaits! It's easy to fall in love with gaited horses, says author Lee Ziegler, and not just because they tend to be handsome animals with good dispositions. More important, their special gaits are comfortable to ride over long distances (unlike the jarring trot), making them a trail rider's dream come true. Whether it's the running walk of the Tennessee Walker, the fox trot of the Missouri Fox Trotter, the Rocky Mountain Horse's saddle gait, the Icelandic Horse's tolt, the Paso Fino's largo, or the Peruvian Paso's sobreandando, each easy gait can be smooth and delightful to experience. Riding and training one of these horses, however, may be like changing from a one-gear pedal bicycle to a 20-speed model. Easy-gaited horses are complex, multi-geared individuals and present unique challenges for a horse owner who is more familiar with the simple walk, trot, and canter. Ziegler guides you through the fine points of developing and maintaining these extra gaits, using humane training methods that stress good horsemanship. The book includes:* Charts comparing the different gaits* Best equipment for easy-gaited horses* Ground exercises to develop coordination, flexibility, and trust* Solutions to common gait problems* Mounted exercises to improve the easy gaits* Sample lesson plans

Are You Petrified of Pruning?Pruning is one of the best things you can do for your plants, if it's done the right way. Now renowned nurseryman and author Lewis Hill shows you how to shear without fear in Pruning Made Easy. More than 300 step-by-step illustrations demonstrate the proper techniques for pruning many varieties of plants, including trees, shrubs, bushes, hedges, vines, and flowers.With Pruning Made Easy you will learn:* Exactly when, how, and why various plants should be pruned* Artistic pruning techniques used to make topiary, espalier, and cordons* Methods of using and caring for pruning tools and equipment* How to prune safely

Seasonings that you can make at home -- More than 100 recipes from herb shops and herb farms across North America! From herbal teas to popcorn seasoning, from no-salt blends to spicy ethnic mixes, Herb Mixtures & Spicy Blends offers easy recipes for delicious, healthful eating. Why not add Kate's Savory Seasoning, Taos Lightning Chili Powder, and Fanny Couch's Pungent Curry Powder to the oregano and basil already on your herbal spice rack? Jazz up your family's favorite soups, salads, meats and vegetables, and desserts with one of these homemade blends developed by specialty herb shops. -- Recipes that add flavor, not salt or fat, to your favorite dishes -- Ethnic blends, including Mexican, Cajun, Thai, Indian, and Italian -- Homemade customized seasonings for seafood, wild game, chicken, and beef -- Recipes for using blends in appetizers, vegetable dishes, main courses, desserts, snacks and teas -- Instructions for drying and storing herbs, bottling and labeling mixtures -- Suggestions for creating gift baskets

It's here! The only book you need to brew great-tasting beer at home. If you can boil water and combine ingredients, you can learn the skills you need to make top-notch beer. Dave Miller's Homebrewing Guide is a simple yet complete overview for brewers of all levels. Brewmaster Dave Miller offers up-to-date advice on cutting-edge techniques and successfully guides you through the entire brewing process.

A Well-Made Fence Brings Peace of Mind If you keep livestock or tend a garden that's vulnerable to wildlife predators, you know that a good fence is essential for protecting your investment. But with all of the new options available today -- and the many challenges posed by terrain, weather, and predators -- it's often hard to determine what type of fence meets your needs. That's why Gail Damerow has written this practical, easy-to-use guide to selecting, planning, and building fences that work. Filled with sound, up-to-date advice and instruction, Fences for Pasture & Garden makes fence-building a task anyone can tackle with confidence. The author weighs the pros and cons of various fence systems -- from traditional fences to the latest technology -- and helps you select the best one for your needs. Helpful suggestions for planning the fence ensure maximum efficiency of labor and materials. And complete, generously illustrated directions show you how to build wire fences, rail fences, electric fences, high-tension fences, temporary fences, woven fences, snow fences, gates, trellises, and more. From alarm systems to zoning laws, this book covers it all. If there's a fence in your future, don't waste time and money on an ineffective system. Make it one you can rely on by first reading Fences for Pasture & Garden.

Have you ever dreamed of selling your herbs and crafts? Stop dreaming and start reading! In Growing Your Herb Business, Bertha Reppert shares the story of how she launched The Rosemary House, a Pennsylvania herb and spice shop in business for more than 25 years. In addition, Reppert details the experiences of 50 other herb business owners from across the country. She explains how to: -- determine a start-up budget -- select a suitable location -- build and track inventory -- develop marketing strategies Bertha Reppert shares her secrets for developing a broad range of herbal products. Growing Your Herb Business also includes imaginative ideas for effective packaging, hosting special events, and seasonal promotions. Reppert even suggests methods for expanding your business through wholesaling, mail order catalog sales, and newsletters.

If you live in the country or suburbs, you've had, are having, or will have water problems. What's yours? Not enough water? Tastes terrible? The pump quits? The water's contaminated? No matter what it is, Stu Campbell addresses it in this book, offering down-to-earth solutions in clear, understandable language. He provides concrete and money-saving answers to questions that range from how to locate water to how to dig a pond to how to hook up the plumbing in your house. You'll learn how to find water, how to move it, how to purify it, and how to store and distribute it in your home.

Become a Skilled Doctor of Plant Care! This easy-to-use reference fully explains more than 50 of the most common plant diseases -- where they occur, what they look like, what to do about them, and the long-term prognosis for the affected plants. Most important, gardening expert Barbara Pleasant recommends proven organic methods for controlling each disease.The Gardener's Guide to Plant Diseases features:-- Informal encyclopedia style, making information and answers very easy to find.-- Illustrations that show the techniques for distinguishing between look-alike symptoms of different diseases.-- Cross-referenced list of common vegetables and fruits and the diseases most apt to affect them.-- Loads of facts on symptoms and tips for detecting diseases (including those diseases that are often too small to see).-- Simple, inexpensive organic treatments to halt the spread of each disease and prevent its recurrence.

Fur hats and mittens. Leather vests. Belts. Knife sheaths. Wallets. These are just a few of the things that you can make by home tanning and hand-working your own furs and leathers. In Tan Your Hide!, Phyllis Hobson explains just what you need to tan your own leather and fur, and she outlines all the steps involved in doing it right. The end result is a handsome, durable homemade article that will last for years.The cost? Very little -- mainly your own labor and a few simple tools. And once you have tanned your furs and leathers, Steve Edwards explains how to make basic leather and fur products, with patterns that you can follow for certain success.The authors tell:* what tools and chemicals you'll need* how to select the hide* the steps for tanning leather and fur* how to test for tanning* old-time Indian tanning methods* how to make your own dyes* what qualities of leather to look for* which tools you need for leatherworking* basic leatherworking techniques* where to find tools and supplies