Jerry Bakers Garden of Herbal Delights

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Jerry Bakers Garden of Herbal Delights

In this 88-minute program, Jerry Baker introduces you to the fast, fun, and wonderful world of herbs! You’ll learn his secrets for making herbal teas, tonics, and remedies, and the best ways to use them in and around the house. By touching, tasting, smelling, and feeling the power of herbs, you and your family will enjoy happier, healthier lives – right from your very own backyard or window garden! Your journey begins in the garden, as Jerry explains which “garden spots” make your herbs the happiest. His tried and true tonics will get your plants off to a rip roarin’ start, and then his tips and tricks on harvesting, drying, and storing these wonders of nature will provide you with an amazing array of herbal delights. Throughout the program, Jerry highlights a variety of tonics that you can use in your home, kitchen, garden, or for better health.

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5 Stars Natural Information
This DVD is full of helpful information on how to grow your own garden and herbs and prepare your own holistic potions.

5 Stars Great alternatives to improve your garden!
This DVD has great alternatives from the chemicals you buy to put on your plants. The harshest thing you may use is liquid dish soap or mouthwash. Plus the ideas are cheaper to do than purchasing something from the store. I really like this video.

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Better Homes and Gardens Magazine Features New Plant Encyclopedia in Time for Spring Planting

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Better Homes and Gardens Magazine Features New Plant Encyclopedia in Time for Spring Planting

March 31, 2009 by Gardening · Leave a Comment

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The Encyclopedia of Country Living

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The Encyclopedia of Country Living

No home, whether in the country, the city, or somewhere in between, should be without this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia — the most complete source of information available about growing, processing, cooking, and preserving homegrown foods from the garden, orchard, field, or barnyard. For more than 30 years, people have relied on its practical, step-by-step advice on basic self-sufficiency skills such as how to cultivate a garden, buy land, bake bread, raise farm animals, make sausage, milk a goat, grow herbs, churn butter, build a chicken coop, cook on a wood stove, and much, much more. First written at the height of the 1960s back-to-the-land movement, the book has been continually revised, updated, and expanded, and has grown from a self-published, mimeographed document to an exhaustive reference of more than one million words, 2,000+ recipes, and over 1,500 mail order sources. Emery’s personal advice, reflections, and anecdotes ensure that this incredibly detailed, diverse reference is as enjoyable as it is useful.

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4 Stars Very Thorough!
I was very impressed thumbing through the book, she leaves no stone unturned. I was also grateful for the section she had on vegetarian cooking!! I learned you have to take one thing at a time when using this book. The only downfall is that the sections are not properly designated, so you might have a hard time finding something if you do not bookmark it the first time.

5 Stars Country Living
This book has all the information that buyers said it did, and more. A lot of basic farm and country know-how that will come in handy, if we do loose some of our conveniences through the coming months, due to the economical problems we are experiencing.

5 Stars As good as it gets!
I can’t say enough positive about this work, for indeed it is a work — a life-work. Having been through the ‘back to the land’ movement of the late ’70’s, and having spent most of my life in a rural setting, I can attest to the validity of the content. The breadth of the content is stupefying. But what makes this book really special is the way Carla Emery uses every opportunity to show us herself in the most unexpected places. So, not only is it an excellent resource, but it becomes a ‘good read’ and an engaging and entertaining auto-biography as well.

5 Stars Amazingly complete & useful!
This book has pretty much everything you’d ever need to know about homesteading. It is amazing that one person could possess all this information, do much of it on a daily basis and still find the time to write an unbelievably comprehensive manual for do-it-yourself country living.

5 Stars Wealth of info
Probably one of the best overall books on doing it yourself and self sufficiency I’ve read. Very well worth the price which isn’t all that much for a book like this. Wonderful, homey touches in the writing as well. Should be the first book that anyone hoping to homestead or live off the land should get.

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