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the Berkshires Farm Table Cookbook Elisa Spungen Bildner and Robert Bildner w/Chef Brian Alberg This wonderful cookbook is filled with favorite recipes from our local Berkshire talent, featuring the stories behind their farms and their missions. -
The Blacksmith by Aldren A. Watson This history-plus-craft book describes the tools and techniques of the blacksmith, paying tribute to the skill and ingenuity of this versatile nineteenth-century American craftsman. -
This quick-reference overview explains the basics of all aspects of blacksmithing. Focusing on the use of only the most essential tools and equipment, it keeps it simple for beginners. Features 450 photos. Hardcover, 159 pages -
Learn how to plan and plant you own Shaker garden! This book explores the Shakers' herb gardening heritage. It combines colorful history, practical growing and harvesting advice, and a guide to existing Shaker gardens. Paperback, 276 pages. -
Learn how to identify, harvest, and eat the tastiest plants in your backyard. Intended as much for the cooking enthusiast as for the survivalist, this book includes recipes that will transform even the most common edible backyard weeds into guest-worthy fare. Paperback, 352 pages. -
This great handbook has information on growing and harvesting vegetables, as well as specific health benefits, vitamins, and minerals for each food. Includes detailed instructions for fall and winter food growing. Learn how to grow for your family, harvest and store all types of home-grown produce, and find joy in eating foods planted with your own hands! Paperback. 240 pages. -
The New Complete Guide to Beekeeping explains step-by-step what it takes to establish a thriving hive that produces an amazing end product, and all the simple pleasures of beekeeping along the way Paperback. 208 pages. -
A new approach to growing local medicine, including information on geo-authenticity, wildcrafting, and developing a good business plan Both a business guide and a farming manual, The Organic Medicinal Herb Farmer will teach readers how to successfully grow and market organic medicinal Western herbs. Paperback, 416 pages. -
This sensible and wonderfully well-focused book provides essential information about one of the most significant challenges for those attempting to grow delicious organic vegetables: the creation and maintenance of healthy soil. Recommended and used by our head gardener, Lauren. A must have for every gardener! Paperback, 125 pages. -
Pies have graced American tables from the days of the Pilgrims, and variations have evolved into regional favorites around the country. Now you can recreate those pieces of history in your own kitchen. From Wet Bottom Shoo Fly Pie to basic American Apple Pie, you’ll find them all here. Hardcover, 160 pages. -
Longtime Maine farmer and homesteader Will Bonsall possesses a unique clarity of vision that extends all the way from the finer points of soil fertility and seed saving to exploring how we can transform civilization and make our world a better, more resilient place. Much in line with Shaker farming practices, this book is recommended and used by our head gardener, Lauren. Paperback. 400 pages. -
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This is the go-to guide for women who want to be part of the farming revolution. Much of the impetus to move back to the land, raise our own food, and connect with our agricultural past is being driven by women. Paperback. 344 pages.
