Describes useful tools, equipment, and techniques, demonstrates how to butcher beef, pork, veal, lamb, venison, poultry, and small game, and discusses meat inspection, processing, and preserving.

Annie Proulx, the novelist, first wrote this guide to making cider in 1980. It is a comprehensive, illustrated overview of the process and includes recipes for using the finished product in cooking. Proulx and Lew Nichols also discuss apple presses, glass bottles versus wooden barrels and storage.

Features 175 recipes that follows these guidelines: simple, delicious, and harmonized with the growing seasons. This book contains popular techniques such as roasting and grilling that bring out the flavour in recipes such as Grilled Chicken and Asparagus Salad, Roasted Leek Tart, Soy-Sesame Grilled Eggplant, and Maple Roasted Carrots.

The complete guide to growing grapes and making your own wine.

Enables you to bring home the magical experience of a child's trip to the aquarium. This title contains thirty colour, pull-out portraits of sea creatures that feature ocean residents from Whales to Octopi, plus fun facts. The pages can then be pulled out to post and create a deep-water environment in any child's room.

Felted knitting is a technique that is both suitable for beginners and engaging enough to hold the interest of experienced knitters. This title presents a wide range of quick and easy projects including felt mittens, hats, socks, slippers, bags, toys and home accessories.

Collection of more than 200 recipes.

Healthy pregnancies, safe births, and thriving calves are critical to every cattle operation, and in remote farm locations, the veterinarian is not always readily available. The author covers various routine situations likely to arise before, during, and after calving.

Is he sweater-worthy? Knit items are excellent gifts for men, but, they have to be given at the appropriate time. This book not only warns stitchers about appropriate project-to-relationship ratios, but also offers 22 of the smartest patterns available for men's clothing and accessories.

Describes techniques for locating sources of water, explains how to drill a well, and supplies guidance on the construction of a home water system.

Describes the equipment, explores concepts of felting, and covers various felting techniques, including traditional, needle, three dimensional seamless, nuno, cobweb, carved, and Beede ball. This title includes projects such as bags; nuno shawls with soft wool fibres and wispy silks; and, picnic blankets and bath mats made with cobweb felt.

Talks about how to raise, manage, and market grass-fed cattle. This book covers various aspects of raising and care, including herd selection, breeding, yearly cycles, cultivating and maintaining healthy soil and grass, fencing and pasture rotation, winter grazing, pests and diseases, and necessary equipment.

Two top garden writers and teachers offer a complete guide to planning out a perennial garden that will last years by choosing the perfect plant and plant combinations for a given site, with design solutions for twenty specific types of gardens.

Describes and critiques various aspects of the land land of knitting - its people, native language, familiar phrases, strange beliefs, etiquette, and cultural customs.

Since it was first published in 1997, homeowners, serious gardeners, and professional nursery owners have responded enthusiastically to DEER PROOFING YOUR YARD & GARDEN as the deer problem in towns and suburbs has got worse, new solutions have presented themselves. To cope with the situation and keep up with the latest in deer control, Rhonda Hart has revised her original book, adding more than 60

Provides concise, simple-to-understand and practical information for anyone interested in using herbs for health and well-being.

Gardening during the winter is often reduced to tending house-plants and browsing seed catalogues. Here, master gardener and builder, Roger Marshall, presents his case for home greenhouses with an examination of everything the potential builder needs to know. He also helps the reader in examining every option and making an informed choice.

Each chapter of this text focuses on a different animal and offers a comprehensive review of the ins and outs - the tribulations and triumphs - of living with and caring for a small farmyard.