By Stella Otto

A hands on guide to growing berries, brambles, and vine fruit in your home garden, this book is packed with reliable methods for filling your backyard with mouth watering, bite-sized berries. Twenty-two chapters cover site preparation, pest control, strawberries, rhubarb, raspberries, blackberry, blueberry, lingonberries, grapes, kiwis, and currants. 284 pages, b&w illustrations.

By Richard Mankamyer

In uncertain times what qualifies as an emergency for most can be simply an inconvenience for those that are well-prepared.

Basic Preparedness covers what you most need to know about food and water storage, medical supplies and sanitation, shelter, grains, food preservation, the making of basic household products, tools, homesteading, alternative energy, and home defense. 202 pages

By Daniel Wing and Alan Scott

The Bread Builders is the most comprehensive book published on artisan bread-baking at home and in commercial masonry ovens. It includes complete information on doughs and leavens as well as masonry (brick) oven construction and management. 253 pages, b&w and full color interior photos.

By Kiko Denzer

This plainly written book covers everything you need to know about making a very low cost wood-fired mud oven in your own backyard. 126 pages b&w and color photos and illustrations.

By Vicki Tate

This Deluxe version of the cook book includes over 700 recipes designed to make complete use of your home food storage. In today’s uncertain times this book is vital to help you make optimum use of your food supplies. 302 pages.

By Eliot Coleman

Keep on harvesting after summer’s end! If you love the joys of eating home garden vegetables, but always thought those joys had to stop at the end of summer, this book is for you. Coleman shows how North American gardeners can raise a wide variety of traditional winter vegetables in backyard cold frames and plastic-covered tunnel greenhouses without supplementary heat. 234 pages b&w illustrations & color photos.