A comprehensive, full-color guide to root cellaring — storing vegetables, meat, and more. The winning team behind The Joy of Keeping Chickens returns, this time with a complete guide to building and maintaining a root cellar — even if it's just a dark and cool closet.

Finally, a bible for backyard farmers that's attractive enough to leave out on the coffee table and inexpensive enough to purchase on a whim. This comprehensive guide, written in charming prose from the perspective of an organic farmer, will appeal to readers who want to learn more about chickens.

Quilting VISUAL Quick Tips is an excellent resource for beginners as well as experienced quilters, providing step-by-step instructions for a wide variety of quiltmaking techniques.

Chuck Wooster's comprehensive guide to all things pig tells readers which breeds are best for which purpose, how to find them, train them, breed them, butcher them, prepare proper food and shelter for them, and much, much more!

It's amazing what you can do with two pieces of fabric and a layer of batting — the variety of quilts and quilting techniques is staggering. This guide introduces you to the essential skills you need to set off on your own quilting adventures.

"Beautifully illustrated with color photos, this is the single best book on keeping sheep."
- Booklist

"There may be no job in contemporary America that requires as many decisions, as much risk, and as complete devotion as trying to make a living from a small low-input farm. This remarkable account is unsentimental and realistic, and also profoundly moving; I know many people living this life, and every page in Nicola Smith's book rings true. Peel a local apple, cut a few slices of farmhouse cheese, and settle in with this adventure story."
- Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature

"Beautiful photography and a sensitive horsemanship philosophy combine to make this a wonderful book to browse."
- American Quarter Horse Journal

"It is an indispensable handbook for those who care for horses and ponies of all types, in winter."
- Horses All

"I really love this book — the photography is great and the writing is simple and informative. If you have any interest in chickens, this is the book for you!"
- Tamara Staples, The Fairest Fowl

"Impressive. Rossier manages to cover so many topics thoroughly and yet retains a friendly, homey, "over-the-back-fence" feeling. An excellent choice for the beginner."
- Barry Koffler, www.feathersite.com

"There are moments in Hansen's images when Lucy's lips have moved, and words have fallen from her mouth, and for a split second, you could swear that this dog has actually spoken to you."
- Mark O'Hare, creator of Citizen Dog

"Who would have guessed that Barbie would turn out to be a brilliant professor of history, economics and political science? There's no need to take that women's studies course, ladies — everything you need to know is in Barbie Unbound."
- Barbara Ehrenreich, author