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City Chicks Introducing The Hen Have-More Plan of Keeping Micro-flocks of Laying Hens as Garden Helpers, Compost Makers, Bio-recyclers and Local Food Producers! This ground-breaking, paradigm-shifting book has everything you need to know about keeping urban chickens in backyard food production systems.
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It's time to think outside the coop, and inside the city! Praise for City Chicks "City Chicks is a revelation! It's time someone connected gardenng to raising and keeping hens. This book is filled with excellent adice so that everyone can confidently practice good earth stewardship, not to mention have a prize garden!". —Michael Metallo, "City Chicks is all about how chickens fit in with so many other common needs and concerns of our century. This is a book for our times". — JD Belanger, Editor Emeritus
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CITY CHICKS:
Keeping Micro-flocks of Laying Hens as Garden Helpers, Compost Makers, Bio-recyclers and Local Food Suppliers, by Patricia Foreman 460 ppb The local foods movement is mushrooming and chickens have become its mascot. City Chicks brings fresh, innovative and new information about keeping backyard flocks of urban chickens. City Chicks describes in detail how chicken’s “skill sets” can be employed in a “Hen-Have-More Plan” for food production systems. Instead of using oil-based chemicals, chickens can help produce fertilizer and compost; they can turn yard waste into garden soil. Hens can also be used as mobile, clucking, (organic and non-toxic), pesticiders, herbiciders, and insecticiders. And chickens can be of civic service. One chicken eats about 7 pounds of food “waste” a month. A few hundred households keeping micro-flocks of laying hens can divert tons of yard and food biomass “waste” from trash collection saving municipalities millions, even billions of tax payer dollars. To quote City Chicks: “What if a city had 2,000 households with three hens (or more) each? That could translate to 252 tons of food waste diverted from landfills each year ... Add to that number the tons of yard waste (grass clippings and leaves) that can hens can help convert into compost and the amount is as enormous as the tax-savings of NOT having to handle, transport and store all that biomass waste”. (Page 20 to 21) This 460 page book has over 100 photos, sketches, and tables bringing visual clarity and simplicity to complex concepts. To see two examples click here: City Chicks ushers in a new paradigm of how to use these versatile, clucking, feathered bi-peds in a variety of roles that help decrease carbon foot-prints, save tax payer dollars and support local food supply production. City Chicks shows how you can:
By Patricia Foreman, the co-author of the best selling sustainable agriculture books: City Chicks Look Inside Raves & Reviews Retail price $22.50. BUY DIRECT AND YOU SAVE $6.75 = 30% OFF Phone & Fax order 540-261-8775
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BACKYARD MARKET GARDENING:
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Selling What You Grow by Andy Lee and Patricia Foreman, 351ppb. This inspirational, dirt-under-the-fingernails book with its earthy humor, has helped inspire "the gardener next door" to grow food not only for themselves, but others as well and make money while doing what they love. The authors have over 20 years of vegetable growing & small business experience into this handbook for beginning & experienced agricultural entrepreneurs. A complete guide to business management & marketing for the small scale vegetable grower. Contains a wealth of information on budgets, crop planning, direct marketing, farmers' markets, roadside & farm stands, food cooperatives, caterers, mail order, restaurants, pick your own, wholesale distributors, producers' cooperatives, & subscription marketing services such as clientele membership clubs, community supported farms, & home deliveries. Covers innovative & appropriately scaled equipment for the greenhouses & fields, labor requirements & training methods, locating & improving land for growing & retailing sites, & gives a very strong argument for the economic & ecologic benefits of organic & sustainable growing methods. Written by "a master farmer who has walked his talk", Backyard Market Gardening is the flagship book that has helped spawn farmers' markets and community farms across America. It has inspired thousands of communities to pursue local food self-sufficiency. "An easy, entertaining read that is very rewarding to the soul, the soil and the flow of capital". Twice selected by the Rodale Book Club as the "Editors Choice" for the Book-of-the-Month.| Backyard Market Gardening: Look Inside Raves & Reviews Buy Now Publisher direct only $14.95 Mail-in Order Form Retail price $19.95. BUY DIRECT AND YOU SAVE $5.00 = 25% OFF! |
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CHICKEN TRACTOR:
The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil. The all new Straw Bale Edition. by Andy Lee and Patricia Foreman, 351ppb. This incredibly popular hands-on book is a grass-roots best seller.It has helped thousands of folks have better gardens and has rekindled an interest in the backyard flocks and heritage breeds of poultry. It has literally, changed the lives of millions of chickens all over the world by taking them out of factory farms, and putting in the gardens where they are happier, more productive and healthier. Look Inside Raves & Reviews Buy Now Publisher direct only $14.95 Mail-in Order Form Retail price $19.95. BUY DIRECT AND YOU SAVE $5.00 = 25% OFF! |
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DAY RANGE POULTRY:
Every Chicken Owner's Guide to Grazing Gardens and Improving Pastures, including the management of breeder flocks, egg handling, incubating, hatchery management, building shelters, marketing, advertising, soils regeneration, compost creation, processing poultry humanely and efficiently, and much, much more! by Andy Lee and Patricia Foreman, 265ppb. Buy Now Publisher direct only $13.95 Mail-in Order Form |
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A Tiny Home to Call Your Own: Living Well in Just Right Houses by Patricia Foreman and Andy Lee, 208ppb You can live in an attractive, aesthetically appealing, upscale house AND you can do it so that it is quality built, architecturally beautiful, highly marketable and profitable. Small is beautiful and functional in housing. Smaller scale homes can be more livable, cozy, homey, enjoyable, low maintenance, and easy to clean. Tiny houses (300 sq.ft. to around 1,000 sq.ft.) can be more affordable and socially responsible than the current trend of "McMansionization" that is chewing up America. Some of them can be built on existing lots without requiring new land purchase. Impress neighbors with style and freedom Uses for Tiny Houses include: • A vacation home by the lake or in the woods — that doesn't cost a bundle AND has all the creature comforts of home. Table of Contents Retail price $19.95. BUY DIRECT AND YOU SAVE $6.00 = 30% OFF! Phone & Fax order 540-261-8775 A Tiny Home to Call Your Own. ISBN: 0-9624648-3-X |
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FAMILY FRIENDLY FARMING: A Multigenerational Home-Based Business Testament
Joel Salatin (and family), 400ppb. |
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YOU CAN FARM: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start and
$ucceed in a Farming Enterprise Joel Salatin, 480ppb. "...a farm life can be a wonderful family experience. The best way to ensure it will be a successful experience is to go into it with as much knowledge as you can gather before you start farming. Reading this book is an excellent place to start." Buy Now only $20.00 Mail-in Order Form |
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SALAD BAR BEEF
Joel Salitin, 368ppb, illustrated & index Retail price $35.00. BUY DIRECT AND YOU SAVE $15.00 = 43% OFF! Phone & Fax order 540-261-8775
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PASTURED POULTRY PROFIT$:
Net $25,000 in 6 months on 20 acres Joel Salatin, 330 ppb NOTE that the challanges of pulling pens, and shelter design has evolved over the past years (as described in Day Range Poultry), Joel's book still contains loads of valuable information on the other aspects of pasture poultry that makes it a bargain and valuable good read. A must for anyone seriously considering raising poultry on pasture Table of Contents Buy Now only $20.00 Mail-in Order Form |
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HOLY COWS & HOG HEAVEN: The Food Buyer's Guide to Farm Friendly Food Joel Salatin, 134 ppb * Empower food buyers to pursue positive alternatives to the industrialized food system. Holy Cows and Hog Heaven has one overriding objective: Buy Now only $17.95 Mail-in Order Form |
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