Books & Media

  • Girls belong outdoors! This handbook covers everything you need to get outside, including ideas for what to do, camping and hiking basics, body stuff in the wilderness, advanced skills like maps, weather, and first aid, as well as recipes, projects, activities, and profiles of inspiring outdoorswomen.  Softcover, 272 pages.  Recommended for girls ages 9-12.
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    This landmark book celebrates a rich and time-honored tradition in American architecture: the vernacular farmhouse. It is a book for architects, designers, historians, preservationists, and anyone who wishes to learn more about this classic American genre. Includes 190 illustrations, with 181 plates in full color. Hardcover, 215 pages
  • Join an adorable cast of animal characters as they explore the alphabet through the seasons. From gathering honey in spring to building cozy campfires in fall, the friends make the most of each season, both enjoying the great outdoors and staying snug inside. Hardcover, 34 pages.
  • This comprehensive guide explains why conserving heritage breeds remains important and how they often can be a better choice for the modern farmer than conventional animals.   With profiles of heritage poultry, sheep, cattle, and more, you'll learn how to select and successfully raise the breed that is right for your specific needs.  Paperback, 240 pages.
  • Beautiful traditional and contemporary instrumental music.
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    This  beautiful book is packed with nearly 300 color photographs and over 120 herbal remedies that you can make yourself. It gives a fascinating insight into the literary, historic, and world-wide application of the fifty common plants that it covers.  Paperback.  224 pages.
  • For more than two hundred years, the Shakers have cooked with the freshest seasonal foods, making flavorful use of a wide range of herbs and spices. In The Best of Shaker Cooking their secrets are shared in more than nine hundred original recipes, including Cranberry Bean Soup, Shaker Chicken Fricassee, Sweet Corn Pudding, and Graham-Buttermilk Bread. With its classic recipes, simple cooking techniques, and years of tradition, The Best of Shaker Cooking brings you real American cooking at its finest.
  • A Celebration of Shaker Spirituals. Features 38 tracks including Heavy Cross and Simple Gifts. Arrangements by Roger Lee Hall and Conrad Held
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    Inspired by the great products produced from our local Carr's Ciderhouse, this cookbook is filled with 127 delicious recipes including shrubs, ciders, vinegars and preserves.
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    Forest bathing, adopted from Japanese culture, simply means to take the forest in through our senses. It encourages being in nature and connecting with it. This book by local author, Hannah Fries, offers a guided journey that prompts meditations to help you slow down, breathe, and connect with the wonder around you. Writers, poets and naturalists offer musings and inspiration along the way. Softcover, 191 pages
  • From Shaker Lands and Shaker Hands is the definitive volume on Shaker commercial ephemera. One of the foremost collectors of Shaker ephemera, with a personal collection of more than 16,000 items relating to the Shaker communal industries, M. Stephen Miller has edited and contributed to many books and articles about the Shakers and their products. Soft cover, 190 pages, published by the University Press of New England, lavishly illustrated in full color.
  • Keep track of your garden each year for better yield and progress.  This journal is organized by the month and is filled with useful reminders!
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