Agriculture Animal Husbandry category: 3344 books
Sustainable Communities Design Handbook
Green Engineering, Architecture, and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2010
The objective of Sustainable Communities Design Handbook is to ensure a better quality of life for everyone, both now and for generations to come. This means creating a better and safer environment internationally through the sustainable use of natural resources, encouraging sustainable development...
by Alex Nkenchor Uwajeh
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Cuando la mayoría de la gente piensa en la agricultura, se imagina grandes granjas que ocupan enormes extensiones de terreno, piensan en miles de reses vagando por un paisaje de verdes praderas, rebosantes de doradas espigas, que esperan la llegada en cadena de una carísima maquinaria agrícola...
by Alex Nkenchor Uwajeh
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Si estás preparado para dejar de lado la vida de locos planteada por las grandes multinacionales y pasar a ser tu propio jefe, el sector agropecuario es una opción interesante. Obviamente hay trabajo que hacer y riesgos a los que enfrentarse a la hora de empezar, pero la recompensa supera claramente los riesgos que has de correr.
Healthy Living on a Small Farm
A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
What a pity it is that the young will not learn from the experience of those who have gone before them!
Could they only do so, how much suffering and woe could be avoided in this world. Unfortunately, however, there are few men so constituted that they are willing to be guided by the experience...
The Vegetable Garden
What, When, and How to Plant
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2015
Perhaps the most characteristic feature of Northern and Eastern farms is the home vegetable garden. Even where no orchard has been planted, and where the ornamental surroundings of the home have been neglected, a fairly well-kept garden in which are grown a number of the staple kinds of vegetables...
by Sharon Fullen
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
A business plan precisely defines your business, identifies your goals and serves as your firm's resume. The importance of a comprehensive, thoughtful business plan cannot be over emphasized. Much hinges on it, including outside funding and credit from suppliers.
The Ultimate Self-Sufficiency Handbook
A Complete Guide to Baking, Crafts, Gardening, Preserving Your Harvest, Raising Animals, and More
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This compact guide provides advice, tips, and step-by-step instructions for hundreds of projects, offering the entire family the tools they need to make the shift toward self-sufficient living. Readers will learn to dip candles, bake bread, make maple syrup, start a vineyard, and much more. With special...
by Peter Dauvergne, Jane Lister
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2013
Timber is a vital resource that is all around us. It is the house that shelters us, the furniture we relax in, the books we read, the paper we print, the disposable diapers for our babies, and the boxes that contain our cereal, detergent, and new appliances. The way we produce and consume timber,...
Free-Range Chicken Gardens
How to Create a Beautiful, Chicken-Friendly Yard
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
“If your garden fantasies involve chickens, Jessi Bloom is here to make those dreams come true.” —The New York Times
Many gardeners fear chickens will peck away at their landscape. But you can keep chickens and have a beautiful garden, too! In this essential handbook, award-winning garden...
Maintaining Your Dwarf Fruit Orchard
Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-134
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1992
Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
Worms Eat My Garbage, 35th Anniversary Edition
How to Set Up and Maintain a Worm Composting System: Compost Food Waste, Produce Fertilizer for Houseplants and Garden, and Educate Your Kids and Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
For more than three decades, this best-selling guide to the practice of vermicomposting has taught people how to use worms to recycle food waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer for houseplants or gardens. Small-scale, self-contained worm bins can be kept indoors, in a basement, or even under the kitchen...
Raising Game Birds
Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletin A-93
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 1984
Since 1973, Storey's Country Wisdom Bulletins have offered practical, hands-on instructions designed to help readers master dozens of country living skills quickly and easily. There are now more than 170 titles in this series, and their remarkable popularity reflects the common desire of country and city dwellers alike to cultivate personal independence in everyday life.
The Chicken Whisperer's Guide to Keeping Chickens: Everything You Need to Know . . . and Didn't Know You Needed to Know About Backyard and Urban Chicke
Everything You Need to Know . . . and Didn't Know You Needed to Know About Backyard and Urban Chicke
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Are you looking for a great way to reconnect with the earth, the community, and your food sources? Keeping backyard chickens is a fun, simple way to start making this happen, even with limited space in your backyard. Let the Chicken Whisperer (poultry personality Andy Schneider) teach you everything...
by Andrew Matheson & Murray Reid
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
For more than 25 years Practical Beekeeping in New Zealand has been the only comprehensive guide to keeping bees in New Zealand. It provides both amateur and commercial beekeepers with details on honey bee management throughout the year, advice on handling hive products and information about many other...