Author: Bertha Reppert
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Keywords: business, herb, growing
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1994-01-07
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0882666126
ISBN-13: 9780882666129

Practical advice on budgets, locations, business plans, bookkeeping, staffing, inventory, and pricing. Case histories of 50 thriving herb businesses. Additional topics include developing products, packaging, special events, and methods for expanding.

Authors:Ron Macher,  Howard W. Kerr,
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Keywords: new, markets, crops, maximize, profits, acre, per, net, develop, farm, small, profitable, apply, principles, guiding, making
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1999-01-10
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1580171613
ISBN-13: 9781580171618

This practical, step-by-step guide to operating a small farm in the new millennium examines 20 alternative farming enterprises. Readers will learn how to target niche markets and sustain a farm’s biological and economic health.

Authors:Steve Bradley, Susan Berry,
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Keywords: gardening, container, guide, practical
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2000-02-14
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1580173292
ISBN-13: 9781580173292

Gardening in containers offers boundless possibilities for cleverly decorating small areas indoors and out. Plus, container gardening is a manageable and fun way for anyone to garden. This inspiring and beautiful step-by-step book on the fastest growing category in gardening is a comprehensive reference to what containers work best for what plants, seasonal planting schemes, simple planting techniques, and plant maintenance. With this book, anyone can explore the joys of gardening, whether they live in a rural setting or a city apartment.

Author: Carol Ekariu
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Keywords: breeds, poultry, guide, illustrated, storey
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2007-05-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1580176674
ISBN-13: 9781580176675

Farmers and fanciers keep an astonishing variety of poultry breeds in North America. These birds provide meat and eggs to nourish us and feathers to keep us warm. Their quirky personalities and charming good looks make them barnyard favorites. They inspire passionate devotion from show breeders and provide a living for farmers. Presented here, breed by breed, are more than 120 barnyard fowl — from chickens and turkeys to emus and pheasants. For each animal, readers will find stunning color photography, a brief history, and a detailed description. The identifying characteristics included for

Author: Rhonda Massingham Hart
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Keywords: garden, yard, deerproofing
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-04-15
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1580175856
ISBN-13: 9781580175852

Since it was first published in 1997, homeowners, serious gardeners, and professional nursery owners have responded enthusiastically to Deer Proofing Your Yard & Garden: 66,000 copies are in print. In the last seven years, as the deer problem in towns and suburbs has gotten worse, new solutions have presented themselves. To cope with the situation and keep up with the latest in deer control, Rhonda Hart has revised her original book, adding more than 60 pages of new material on how anyone can protect their yard and garden from deer.As in her first edition, Hart takes a straightforward, just-th

Authors:Nancy J. Ondra, Stephanie Cohen,  Rob Cardillo
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Keywords: autumn, season, garden, extending, fallscaping
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2007-09-12
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1580176801
ISBN-13: 9781580176804

Why should the joys of puttering in the garden be relegated to spring and summer when autumn has so much to offer? Enjoyable temperatures and more dependable rainfall in much of the country extend the growing season and allow the gardener to spend more time enjoying the garden and less time watering. Those final splendid months before winter’s chill offer hospitable conditions for an impressive array of flowers, foliage, berries, and seedheads. Nancy J. Ondra and Stephanie Cohen, two top garden writers and teachers, team up to show readers how to achieve three-season garden color. Join

Author: Karl Schwenke
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Keywords: approach, earth, book, organic, farming, small, scale, successful
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1991-01-04
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0882666428
ISBN-13: 9780882666426

“My advice is as old as the plow.” So says author, Karl Schwenke of his guide to making a full- or part-time living on the land, a book for anyone who plans to own a small farm. With sections on soil management, farm practices, cash crop selections, machinery, and many other topics, as well as comprehensive series of appendices, the author touches upon the basics of getting started with one’s own small-scale farm. Schwenke, himself a small farm owner, has provided a great practical resource for the beginning cash crop grower. Get started on acquiring “the hodgepodge of knowledge blende