A practical back-to-basics guide to achieving food security and financial independence.What if you could really raise or grow all the food your family needs? In this fully illustrated book, you’ll learn to create an autonomous, diversified, and sustainable garden and to cultivate and maintain it following the main principles of permaculture. If you want to move towards greater food autonomy and you have sufficient space, you can also grow grains, keep chickens, and...

“One of the few truly helpful books on fiction writing.”—Chicago TribuneGo beyond Stephen King’s On Writing to master the fundamentals of great storytelling with this foundational guide that reveals the essential elements of what makes the best fiction. The Art of Creative Writing is a timeless testament to the power of dialogue and character development that is accessible for every level of writer from beginner to establis...

Over 1,000 Tips for Gardening, Country Cooking, Saving Money, DIY Cleaning Solutions, Home Remedies, and More!This comprehensive collection of practical tips covers all aspects of keeping a country home, from painting a wall to removing wine stains, making perfect pastry to making your own window cleaner. In addition, find advice for cleaning carpets, making jam, wallpapering, knitting, sewing, and more! Woven throughout are poems and proverbs, legends and lore, ma...

From one of the top HR specialists in the world comes this much-needed guide to help people maximize productivity and increase revenue.Whether it’s in corporate America or in our own living rooms, people are wasting time. From the minute we wake up and check our Facebook page or emails—before we even crawl out of bed—to late at night when we stay up longer than we should, watching our favorite show.There’s a precise moment that falls between working enough ...

The survival expert and New York Times bestselling author of Prepare for Anything offers a comprehensive, practical guide to self-reliant living.Whether you want to "go green" or live the life of a modern-day pioneer, survival expert Tim MacWelch teaches you the knowledge and skills you need in order to unplug successfully. Written from a hands-on perspective, this guide covers everything from raising chickens in your urban backyard to going total...

Plant-Based Comfort Food Classics contains only the best selection of amazingly tasty recipes that will make your family and friends fall in love with all these new yet comforting tastes. Guests at your vegan dinner party will talk about these recipes for years to come! Plant-Based Comfort Food Classics has you covered from soups, salads, and spreads to main dishes and cakes. You can even find a whole selection of dreamy no bake desserts and a barbecue and Christmas speci...

Preserve the harvest with WECK jars and enjoy all your favorite jams, spreads, dressings, sauerkrauts, and more for the whole year!Food preservationist Stephanie Thurow has once again teamed up with the canning jar experts at WECK to show readers how to preserve the harvest with their beautifully designed, reusable glass jars. In WECK® Home Preserving, Stephanie has created a step-by-step guide to preserving even more with WECK jars and has develo...

Delicious recipes that save time, money, and make meal prep easy!Freezer cooking is a huge time-saver for busy families – you spend one day prepping a month's worth of meals, to be stored in ziplock bags in the freezer, ready to throw into the Instant Pot, pressure cooker, or multi-cooker for dinner! Rather than slave away every night, you take care of all the planning, shopping, chopping, and measuring in one fell swoop for a month's worth of delicious meals. And ...

Good writers follow the rules. Great writers know the rules—and follow their instincts!Finding the right words, in the right order, matters—whether you're a student embarking on an essay, a job applicant drafting your cover letter, an employee composing an email…even a (hopeful) lover writing a text. Do it wrong and you just might get an F, miss the interview, lose a client, or spoil your chance at a second date.Do it right, and the world is yours.

A beautiful, comprehensive guide to going green and living sustainably.Permaculture is an important but often misunderstood method of growing food and building homes in a manner that works with nature, rather than against it, to create beautiful, healthy, and useful gardens. Blending ecology, organic agriculture, green home design, appropriate technology, and biology can be confusing and overwhelming, but The Ultimate Guide to Natural Farming and Susta...

Learn how to grow (and consume) sprouts, shoots, and microgreens at home without using expensive or complicated equipment—all you need is tap water and a glass jar, and you’re ready to go! This is an easy, fast, and smart way to fit healthy greens into your diet. Following Lina Wallentinson’s instructions, in just a few days, you’ll see dry seeds transform into burgeoning green sprouts.In Sprouts, Shoots, and Microgreens, Wallentinson proves there is much more to shoots, s...

Homesteading From Scratch is for people who want to do things differently. The type of people who want to eat real food, grow herbs, make cheese, raise baby animals, hunt mushrooms, pick blackberries, unschool their children, can jelly, ferment kraut, farm organically, connect to nature, live intentionally, and more.Guiding readers from desire to full-blown off-the-grid living-and everything in between-this book covers farming, animal husbandry, food preparation, homeschoo...