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🦆 Raising Backyard Ducks How to Raise Healthy and Happy Ducks in Your Backyard for Meat, Eggs, Feathers, and as Pets "More eggs, less noise—ducks just do it better." Want to Raise Ducks That Lay More, Live Longer, and Love You Back? Whether you're a homesteader, hobby farmer, backyard beginner, or just dreaming of adorable waddling companions, ducks offer more than just charm—they’re among the most rewarding animals you can raise. Raising Backyard Ducks is your go-to, beginner-friendly guide for raising ducks for eggs, meat, feathers, and even as beloved backyard pets. This book ...

Discover the joys and rewards of raising chickens in your backyard!Author Karen Harris used interviews with a half dozen experienced small-scale chicken farmers to create the ultimate "how-to" book for managing a backyard flock. A TRULY comprehensive guide covering everything you NEED TO KNOW: Sourcing Chicks Understanding chicken terms and breeds Differentiating between layers, meat birds, dual-purpose chickens, and bantams When and where to get chicks: local hatcheries, mail-order, feed stores, local breeders, community exchange groups Preparing for the arrival of chicks: setting up a ...

Project Animal Farm provides a riveting and revealing look at what truly happens behind farm doors, as discovered by a fearless young woman. Sonia Faruqi, a 25-year-old Ivy League graduate and investment banker, had no idea that the night she arrived at the doorstep of an organic dairy farm would mark the beginning of a journey that would ultimately wind all the way around the world. Instead of turning away from the animal cruelty she would come to witness, Sonia made the most courageous decision of her life.

A disquieting and meditative look at the issue that started the biggest food fight of our time--GMOs. From a journalist and mother who learned that genetically modified corn was the culprit behind what was making her and her child sick, a must-read book for anyone trying to parse the incendiary...

The best primer available for keeping backyard Chickens. Learn everything you need to get started and to raise happy healthy birds from chick to laying hen, meat birds and more.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to poultry farming for egg and meat production in Nigeria, covering the essential aspects of breed selection, farm establishment, feeding, egg management, health, and marketing. The focus on local consumption and adaptability to the Nigerian context will make this book a valuable resource for aspiring and existing poultry farmers in the country.

Goats thrive on fully organic natural care. As natural browsers, they have higher mineral requirements than other domestic animals, so diet is a critical element to maintaining optimal livestock health. In Natural Goat Care, consultant Pat Coleby shows how to solve health problems both with natural herbs and medicines and the ultimate cure, bringing the soil into healthy balance. Topics include: correct housing and farming methods; choosing the right livestock; diagnosing health problems; nutritional requirements and feeding practices; vitamins and herbal, homeopathic and natural remedies; ...

The main secret of the success of skilled beekeepers is having the proper book of knowledge. It is the knowledge that helps to create large apiaries, get good yields of bee products, and increase profits. Ignorance only spoils and destroys everything.

For many outsiders, the word “ranching” conjures romantic images of riding on horseback through rolling grasslands while living and working against a backdrop of breathtaking mountain vistas. In this absorbing memoir of life in the Wyoming high country, Mary Budd Flitner offers a more authentic glimpse into the daily realities of ranch life - and what it takes to survive in the ranching world. Some of Flitner’s recollections are humorous and lighthearted. Others take a darker turn.

If you've been looking to get started with beekeeping, but aren't quite sure exactly how to begin… you'll find this book Beekeeping For Beginners: A Starter Guide Book On The Basics To Keeping Bees & Harvesting Honey to be a great resource! Here are just some of the things you'll discover inside this Beginner's Beekeeping Guide Book - - The Main Benefits for Keeping Bees - What You Must Know In Order to Get Started - The Exact Equipment You Will Need to Succeed with This - Where to Position Your Hives For Best Results (getting this wrong can mean serious trouble!) - The Different Types Of...

🌱 From the first seeds to space farms—discover the amazing story of farming! Have you ever wondered how your food gets from the ground to your plate? Growing Food: The History of Farming for Curious Kids — From Seeds to Space Farms is a fun and fascinating journey through time, showing how farming has shaped our world. Kids will explore: The First Farmers – how planting seeds changed everything. River Farms & Castles – from Egypt to medieval Europe. New Foods Crossing Oceans – potatoes, tomatoes, chocolate, and more! Machines & Tractors – how farms became factories. Dust ...

This original, topical and engaging book navigates the complex realm of forest restoration. It reveals how a nuanced approach is required – one that integrates the latest scientific advancements (for instance in microbial ecology, acoustic technology and epigenetics), Indigenous leadership and a holistic understanding of the interconnectedness of life within these vital ecosystems.

One of the few voices to challenge The Guardian's George Monbiot on the future of food and farming (and the restoration of nature) is academic, farmer and author of A Small Farm Future Chris Smaje. In Saying NO to a Farm-Free Future, Smaje presents his defense of small-scale farming and a robust critique of Monbiot’s vision for an urban and industrialized future.

This book is perfect for anyone who eats and wants to understand what it takes to produce healthy food. Through new ideas and a different perspective, Marty shares a winning formula for success in modern family farming. Written by the owner of the Spence Farm featured in the documentary, Sustainable, this book provides listeners with the necessary steps an owner-operator must take to set up their family farm for long-term success.

Love for the Land explores the power and potential of people-place relationships. Through clear and compelling prose, it elevates the virtues of imagination, affection, and fidelity—concepts promoted by farmer-writer Wendell Berry—and shows how they motivate small- and mid-scale farmers to care for the land, even in the face of adversity. Paying particular attention to farmland loss from suburban sprawl, rampant agricultural consolidation, and, for farmers of color, racial injustice, Brooks Lamb reckons with the harsh realities that these farmers face.

This book, "The Complete Guide to Chicken Farming," is a comprehensive resource for anyone interested in raising chickens, whether for eggs, meat, or as a sustainable farming practice. Covering every aspect of chicken farming from the basics of selecting the right breed and building a coop to advanced topics like sustainable practices and integrating chickens into permaculture, this guide provides practical, actionable advice. Listeners will learn how to care for their flock through all life stages, manage health and nutrition, and optimize egg and meat production.

Hugelkultur, also sometimes referred to as hugel bed, is a permaculture gardening technique for growing vegetables in heaps made from timber and covered over with topsoil. In this short introduction to a well established but little known growing concept, you will discover what it involves and how it can be used to great advantage particularly in dry arid regions. With a proper understanding and application of this simple technique, vegetables can be grown with minimum irrigation—and less backache!

More than anything else, this is a book about love. In this deeply moving account, you will hear about Rambo, a sheep who informs the staff when another animal is in trouble; and Paulie, a former cockfighting rooster who eats lunch with humans; Dino, an old toothless pony who survived a fire; and many more. Alongside these horses, roosters, pigs, sheep, rabbits, cows, and other animals is a staff of loving humans for whom every animal life, even that of a frog rushed to the vet for emergency surgery, has merit.

Hugelkultur raised bed gardening. This is perhaps one of the most ancient of the no-dig gardening techniques for growing fruit and vegetables, originating in the Black Forest region of Germany, it has been around for many centuries. Created as a way to grow food in areas where good arable land was limited, the Hugelkultur makes use of material that would otherwise be discarded as useless - forest debris and other garden waste.

"Beekeeping For Beginners: Your Essential Guide To Getting Started, Nurturing Hives, and Harvesting Honey As A Beginner" is a well-detailed instructive guide that introduces new apiarists to the fascinating world of bees. To help you learn about bee behavior, social structure, and ecological value, as well as how to set up and maintain a thriving bee colony.