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Cultivate your garden year-round with this portable greenhouse. Perfect for extending your growing season, it includes shade cover and shelves and features zippered openings. Durable rip-stop construction.

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While Americans may take a plentiful supply of hamburger patties for granted, the days of easy beef are threatened by climate change, dwindling Great Plains aquifers drained by irrigation and an unsustainable business model’s thin profit margins, argue the authors of this lively and unsettling history-cum-polemic. Rimas and Fraser preface their sobering assessment with a panoramic history; they write vividly about the semimystical aurochs that became extinc (more…)

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Grow healthier starts quickly and easily with total control over heat and humidity with this germination station from Hydrofarm. Much like a greenhouse a miniature greenhouse, this heated germination station seed starting system offers increased growing success by providing gentle warmth to the planting bed and by controlling the humidity under the dome. The purchase includes a 17 watt, UL listed, waterproof heat mat and an 11- by 22-inch watertight growing tray with (more…)

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“…will help inexperienced farmers select the breed that is best-suited for their goals.” – Angus Journal   “With the information in this book you can reap the pleasures and rewards of using your land to raise healthy, happy and productive animals.” – American Small Farm 

With nearly every supermarket now featuring an “organic” section, the demand for organically grown meat and dairy products has risen rapidly in recent years. Sma (more…)

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“…a welcome addition to the `eat local’ movement in Indiana…a nifty guide that…provides informative descriptions of restaurants and…healthy food suppliers.” –Nuvo newsweekly, July 30, 2008 ” …an essential guide, recipes included, to the foremost sources of local foods in Indiana.” –Louisville Courier-Journal.com November 29, 2008 “Christine Barbour and Scott Hutcheson have cooked up a tasty read seasoned with perfect portions of both the exotic and good (more…)

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There’s something refreshing about a gardening book that doesn’t start out with soil. Smith ( The Bountiful Solar Greenhouse ) puts off the nitty-gritty subject until chapter nine. In the meantime, he covers such subjects as vegetables, flowers and herbs, light and temperature, ground beds and containers, and crop spacing and scheduling. This is not a complicated book; the operative word for it is “companion.” And while some of the advice is rather elementa (more…)

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1964 Original Publisher: National Academies Original Identifier: NAP:14490 Description: Each of these popular handbooks contains comprehensive information on the nutritional needs of domestic animals and includes extensive tabular data. All are paperback and 81/2 x 11. Some books come with diskettes or CDs that allow users to predict nutrient requirements of specific animals under various conditions and at vario (more…)

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The STC Silverline Greenhouse is 6′ x 8′ and is the perfect backyard greenhouse for the home gardener. The Silverline Greenhouse is made a polycarbonate and aluminum and includes rain gutters, vent and base.
The Silverline Greenhouse is easy to assemble — requires only pliers, screwdiver and wrench.

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Iris offers the perfect blend of form and function with these two injection-molded plastic containers. The 30-quart Airtight Pet Food Container holds up to 25 pounds of your pet’s favorite dry food. Use the Snack Bin container to store your pet’s treats or rawhide chews. The clear bases let you know with a quick glance when it’s time to pick up more food at the store. The airtight lids and snap-tight buckles keep everything inside fresh. The wide open tops offer (more…)