Rural Living Books
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Starting and Running Your Own Small Farm Business by Sara Beth Aubrey
$19.95Published in 2007, this book will help you develop a business plan, conduct market research, secure financing, comply with USDA and other food safety guidelines, protect your assets, create a marketing plan, determine pricing, choose your selling areas. Learn More -
Horse Care for Kids by Cherry Hill
Regular Price: $16.95
Special Price: $8.50
This book is in the Storey's Kids lineup, but any novice horse owner will find this book helpful. Learn More -
Backyard Farming by Terry Bridge
$12.95Packed with no nonsense information for the novice on how to raise livestock and food on small land holdings. A valuable resource and also a “coffee table” book, all at an incredibly low price. Learn More -
Homegrown & Handmade by Deborah Niemann
$22.95Subtitled “A Practical Guide to More Self-Reliant Living,” this new book has major sections on the sustainable garden, the backyard orchard, the poultry flock, the home dairy including cows, goats, and sheep, and the home fiber flock including llamas. Learn More -
The Backyard Homestead, Edited by Carleen Madigan
$18.95A new Storey book for producing "all the food you need on just a quarter acre!" Learn how to raise 1400 eggs, 50 lbs. of wheat, 60 lbs. of fruit, one ton of vegetables, 280 lbs. of pork, and 75 lbs. of nuts, plus sections of dairy and milk goats, sheep, rabbits, cattle, and more. Learn More -
Just in Case, by Kathy Harrison
Regular Price: $16.95
Special Price: $10.00
"Don't be scare, be prepared" is the focus of this new Storey book. Learn how to keep your family warm, fed, and sheltered during a long power outage; prepare an evacuation plan if you have to leave your home. Book has practical plans for emergency self-sufficiency. Learn More -
How to Build Animal Housing by Carol Ekarius
$24.95This large format book has 60 building plans for barns, sheds, pens, coops, feeders, stanchions, and more. Starts with planning for structure, design, and function. Learn More -
Fences for Pastures & Garden, by Gail Damerow
$16.95Finally a comprehensive book on all types of fences. Learn More -
Livestock Guardians, by Janet Vorwald Dohner
$24.95A complete guide to working with guardian animals. Learn about methods of predator control, chapters on livestock guard dogs, llamas, and donkeys, their selection, training, and care. Learn More -
Basic Country Skills by John and Martha Storey
$24.95This "Practical Guide to Self-Reliance" from Storey covers the whole range of topics on home, barn, and farm repair, gardening, preserving, farming and farm animals. Learn More
