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The Pollinator Garden: Planting for the bees that feed us back

A Greenhouse the Size of a Window: Growing food and herbs indoors all year

Seeds Worth Saving: Keeping your best plants going, year after year

The Compost Kitchen: Turning scraps into next year's soil

Fences, Gates, and Good Neighbors: Boundaries, borrowed tools, and the barter that builds a place

The Woodpile Year: Heating with wood, from felling to the last February log

Fix It Before It Breaks: A homestead maintenance year, season by season

The One-Acre Pantry: Feeding a family well from a small piece of ground

Rain Barrels and Root Cellars: Storing water and harvest the way our grandparents did

The Backyard Flock: Six hens, fresh eggs, and the calmest chore of the day

Rain in a Barrel: Catching and using water on a small holding

The Cold Cellar: Storing roots, apples, and full jars through winter

A Shed That Works: Building and organizing the homestead's workroom

The Repair Bench: Keeping tools, fences, and small machines alive

Firewood Sense: Cutting, stacking, and burning wood safely and well

The Preserving Shelf: Canning, drying, and fermenting the garden's surplus

Six Hens: A plain guide to keeping chickens for eggs

The One-Acre Plan: Laying out a small homestead that pays its way

The Shared Plot: Allotments, neighbors, and growing food in good company

Winter on the Windowsill: Sprouts, greens, and herbs for the months the garden sleeps

Water Wise: Keeping a garden alive through dry weeks without waste

Seeds Saved, Money Kept: Collecting and storing your garden's next generation

The Herb Spiral: A small bed of remedies at the back door

Tomatoes Worth the Wait: Raising summer's best crop without chemicals or fuss

Soil First: Compost, mulch, and the quiet art of feeding the ground

The Kitchen Garden Year: What to sow, tend, and pick, month by month

Ten Pots on a Balcony: Growing real food when all you have is a railing and some sun

The Healing Garden: A beginner's plot of herbs and vegetables that feed body and mood

The Southern States, March, 1894

Sewage and sewerage of farm homes [1928]

British Bees

A winter of content

Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts

The Corning Egg Farm book, by Corning himself

Dry-Farming : A System of Agriculture for Countries under a Low Rainfall

Agricola

The Vegetable Garden: What, When, and How to Plant

The First Book of Farming

The Farmer's Boy: A Rural Poem

Pig Raising: A Manual for Pig Clubs

Village Improvements and Farm Villages

The Pig: Breeding, Rearing, and Marketing

Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs

Round About a Great Estate

Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money We Made by It

Guano: A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers

Green Spring Farm, Fairfax County, Virginia

Fur Farming

Farm drainage

Brook Farm: Historic and Personal Memoirs

The Mason-Bees

The Bee-keeper's Manual

Grain and Chaff from an English Manor

The garden yard

A Stake in the Land

The Open Air

The Georgics

Station Amusements in New Zealand

Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming

Old Country Life

Deep Furrows

The Holy Earth

Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry

Manures and the principles of manuring

The Negro Farmer

George Washington: Farmer

A Description of the Bar-and-Frame-Hive

Idylls of the Skillet Fork

Florida: An Ideal Cattle State

Agricultural prices

A New Orchard And Garden

A city milk and cream contest as a practical method of improving the milk supply

Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects

The honey-bee: its nature, homes and products

The Hills of Hingham

The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2)

The Enclosures in England: An Economic Reconstruction

Practical Farm Buildings: Plans and Suggestions

Poultry for profit

Nature Near London

Humanity to Honey-Bees

Bee Keeping for Profit. A New System of Bee Management (1891)

Forestry for Farmers

What I know of farming:

The Bee Keeper's Guide, Third Edition

The Bee Keeper's Guide, Fourth Edition

Farm Mechanics: Machinery and Its Use to Save Hand Labor on the Farm.

Making Home Profitable

Garden Pests in New Zealand

Fur Farming for Profit, with Especial Reference to Skunk Raising

Delineations of the Ox Tribe: The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes.

The apiary; or, bees, bee-hives, and bee culture [1865]

Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition

Bee-keeping for the Many; or, The management of the common and Ligurian honey bee

Petunia again

Beyond the Horizon

Stock and stalks

Rural architecture

Farmhouse Plans

My Friends at Brook Farm