HeatMate Alcohol Heater/Stove

• Safe Pressure Free source of heat that doubles as both a stove and heater.
• Environmentally friendly - use with denatured alcohol made from grain.
• Great for Camping, Hiking, Boating, RVing
• Pressure free canister system
• Great for emergency heat or cooking.

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This small, light and efficient portable alcohol heater provides a safe, pressure free source of heat and with the lid removed, this unit may also be used as a stove. Perfect as a backup in a boat, recreational vehicle or home. This portable non-pressurized alcohol heater makes an excellent addition to your household emergency provisions. Ultra-reliable and environmentally friendly, non-pressurized canister systems, eliminate the need for pumping, priming, hoses and valves of pressurized systems. Denatured alcohol is a safe environmentally friendly, clean heating and cooking fuel and can be easily extinguished with water

The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease Control: A Complete Problem-Solving Guide to Keeping Your Garden and Yard Healthy Without Chemicals

An excellent handbook with entries for common fruits, flowering plants, vegetables, and trees. Each listing has information on disease and pest problems and tips on how to solve them without chemicals. Especially useful sections feature photos of garden insects and diseases.

Ace Scuffle-Stirrup Hoe

• For cutting weeds and loosening soil
• Sharpe, double edge blade cuts on both push and pull motions
• Socket nailed to handle for durability

The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener

Coleman's personable work draws together the experience and wisdom of his 25 years as a vegetable gardener in Maine. It includes nearly all the material in the previous edition (LJ 11/1/89), communicating a respect and feeling for "the land" and its processes. Every page is imbued with the wisdom and careful observations he and his associates have gathered; from soil structure to "mobile greenhouses" that expand the growing season, each method is thought through to its ultimate impact on the earth and on economic survival. Well-presented graphics illustrate methods and techniques. This new edition includes sidebar references and notes, new chapters on creating fertile soil (without importing items such as manure from sources that may not use organic methods), and use of existing information channels to learn of new information. Of interest for even the smallest veggie patch grower. The Dirt Doctor's Guide to Organic Gardening presents many of the same sustainable concepts with the vehemence of its radio talk show host and news columnist author. Garrett gives tips on a broader range of home gardening, including landscaping and wildlife, and spends much effort on the abuses of past and current practice. Basics are presented briefly, with many eco-asides that help break up the dense, information-rich text. Lack of visuals makes the material harder to absorb, yet one is constantly copying out directions as they appear. These tidbits and the coverage of issues concerning Southern gardens make the title of value, though gathering the tips in an appendix or special section would have provided better access. For general collections.
Sue Gardner, Albert Wisner Lib., Warwick, N.Y.

Four-Season Harvest: Organic Vegetables from Your Home Garden All Year Long

From first sentence to last, Coleman's ( The New Organic Gardener ) book is a delight--an earnest guide written with an impish sense of humor. It will refresh anyone who wants to get the most from a vegetable garden yet doesn't want to devote too much time and energy to the process. Apparently Coleman thoroughly enjoys every phase of gardening--from planting crops to weeding. Who else has ever suggested, only half in jest, dancing with a hoe? Or keeping a pair of ducks for pest patrol? This is that kind of book. It's also a book full of valuable information on how to harvest fresh vegetables and salad ingredients literally year-round--yet without an expensive greenhouse or indoor light garden set-up. Coleman combines succession planting (small sowings three or more times, rather than one big endeavor) with cold-frame growing in the winter months. He includes how-tos for building simple cold-frames. Given the fact that he lives in Maine, his advice seems all the more reliable. He believes in simplicity ("If what I am doing in the garden seems complicated, it is probably wrong"), seasonality (tomatoes in summer, broccoli in fall, mache in February) and diplomacy in the garden (which "has more to teach us than just how to grow food"). Here, his philosophy of organic growing is shared easily. The book concludes with an extensive chapter on the vegetables that comprise his "cast of characters." Illustrated.

The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses

Choosing locally grown organic food is a sustainable living trend that’s taken hold throughout North America. Celebrated farming expert Eliot Coleman helped start this movement with The New Organic Grower published 20 years ago. He continues to lead the way, pushing the limits of the harvest season while working his world-renowned organic farm in Harborside, Maine.
Now, with his long-awaited new book, The Winter Harvest Handbook, anyone can have access to his hard-won experience. Gardeners and farmers can use the innovative, highly successful methods Coleman describes in this comprehensive handbook to raise crops throughout the coldest of winters.Building on the techniques that hundreds of thousands of farmers and gardeners adopted from The New Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest, this new book focuses on growing produce of unparalleled freshness and quality in customized unheated or, in some cases, minimally heated, movable plastic greenhouses.Coleman offers clear, concise details on greenhouse construction and maintenance, planting schedules, crop management, harvesting practices, and even marketing methods in this complete, meticulous, and illustrated guide. Readers have access to all the techniques that have proven to produce higher-quality crops on Coleman’s own farm.His painstaking research and experimentation with more than 30 different crops will be valuable to small farmers, homesteaders, and experienced home gardeners who seek to expand their production seasons.A passionate advocate for the revival of small-scale sustainable farming, Coleman provides a practical model for supplying fresh, locally grown produce during the winter season, even in climates where conventional wisdom says it “just can’t be done.”

Zippo "Deluxe Hand Warmer"

The Zippo Hand Warmer is a perfect accessory to combat the chill, no matter what your outdoor activity. Warm your hands while camping, fishing, hiking, and hunting. The Hand Warmer is great for football games, from tailgating through final whistle. Warm up during winter sport activities: skiing, snowboarding, snowmobiling, and ice hockey. Put the Hand Warmer to work on the job: forestry service, construction, or virtually any outdoor occupation. Includes hand warmer, warmer bag, and filling cup. Built for winter warriors, the Zippo Hand Warmer features a sleek and compact design, and fits easily into pockets, gloves and pants without the bulk of other warmers. The Hand Warmer uses Zippo premium lighter fluid to produce more than ten times the heat as traditional models and lasts for up to 12 hours. Plus, it comes with a one-year guarantee, making the Zippo Hand Warmer a perfect fit for any outdoors enthusiast. Just add lighter fluid to make it work. Fluid not included in packaging.

Making & Using Dried Foods

“Easy, economical and nutritious, drying is a natural, great-tasting alternative to canning or freezing.  Includes instructions for drying almost everything with or without a commercial dehydrator, and more than 200 delicious recipes using dried foods.”  - Countryside & Small Stock Journal

The Dehydrator Bible: Includes over 400 Recipes

The comprehensive handbook for dehydrating foods at home.
Dehydrating is one of the most effective ways to preserve food for maximum nutrition at very low cost. Sales of dehydrators are soaring as many cooks reject the suspect ingredients in commercially prepared foods. Dehydrating with the recipes in this book is one way to control all ingredients and please the whole family.
Recipes for dried ingredients include herbs and seasonings, fruits, fruit leathers, vegetables and beef jerky. These nutritious ingredients are included in delicious recipes such as:

Beef and potato stew

Chicken pot pie

Vegetable lasagna

Zucchini and red pepper fritters

Dried tomato and basil polenta

Mushroom, herb and white wine sauce

Strawberry rhubarb tarts.

These recipes appeal to a wide array of tastes, feature contemporary ingredients such as whole grains and work equally well in a home kitchen, on an RV, on a boat or at a campsite. Recommendations for buying a dehydrator and storing dehydrated foods are also included.
Easy-to-follow instructions with specific time guidelines and best practices and the latest data on food safety make this the ideal dehydrating guidebook and cookbook.

Mary Bell's Complete Dehydrator Cookbook

A guide to food dehydrating shows readers how to make preservative-free dried apple rings, candied apricots, beef and fish jerkies, sun-dried tomatoes, corn chips, herb seasonings, dried fruit sugars, and more

Complete Guide to Home Canning and Preserving

Practical, easy-to-follow guide contains virtually everything consumers need to know about home canning: how to select, prepare, and can fruits, vegetables, poultry, red meats and seafoods; how to preserve fruit spreads, fermented foods, and pickled vegetables; how to prepare foods for special diets, and much more.

Ball Blue Book of Preserving

C Meyer ...I have been canning for over 20 years, and without a doubt, this book provides the best instruction on how to can properly. This is important if you want to successfully can, and enjoy the food you can.

First: you are provided with numerous methods on how to can, water bath and pressure cooker for instance.

Second: you are provided with chart of what type of processing works best for which type of food (main ingredient in your canning).

Third: you are provided with a chart on how long to process each type of food, and better still, they have not forgotten that people are not at the same elevation across the country. As someone who started canning in Iowa and then moved to Colorado, this book makes all the difference.

Fourth: you are provided with clear, easy to follow recipes (many of these have been around for generations).

Fifth: the final products taste good! I gladly share the canned products with friends and family. Many items end up as birthday or Christmas presents.

Whether you are a novice, experienced, or somewhere in between to canning, this is a must have book.   C Meyer

Preserving Summer's Bounty: A Quick and Easy Guide to Freezing, Canning, and Preserving, and Drying What You Grow

"Preserving Summer's Bounty takes a giant step ahead in preserving advice. This up-to-the-minute guide pays tribute to your grandmother's techniques for 'putting up' vegetables, but what I like best are the quick and easy modern methods using the microwave, the freezer and more. These fast answers should lure even the busiest among us into storing the precious harvest of the garden."--Marian Morash, Author of The Victory Garden Cookbook

"Preserving Summer's Bounty is a treasure trove of sage advice and enticing recipes. It's a delightful book that will let you enjoy your garden's harvest all year long."--Carol Hupping, Editor of Stocking Up III

The Everything Canning and Preserving Book: All you need to know to enjoy natural, healthy foods year round

More and more people are beginning to can and preserve, whether for health benefits or to save money. Complete with step-by-step instructions, recipes, and tips, this book is a must for beginning and experienced canners alike. With this book you will learn to:

• Preserve fresh foods by drying, freezing, canning, and pickling
  
• Find and use the tools needed to can and preserve foods at home
  
• Take safety precautions to prevent food contamination
  
• Can all-natural broths, soups, and stews
  
• Dry herbs and spices from the garden for year-round use
  
• Make festive food gifts—from jams and jellies to dressings and sauces
  

In addition to a wealth of information and 100 great recipes, you will find a glossary of terms they can reference and an appendix of resources, including lists of products, books, and websites, to help you find everything you need to begin canning today!

About the Author

Patricia Telesco (Amherst, NY), a.k.a. Marian Singer, is the author of several culinary books. She also writes articles on a number of culinary topics for publications such as The Herb Quarterly. Ms. Telesco is a member of the Cooking Club of America, where she served as an ambassador for two years, and she is an avid canner who is constantly developing new recipes and preserving methods. Ms. Telesco supports her writing with ongoing lectures and workshops around the country, including thematic cookoff competitions.

Jeanne P. Maack has been home canning for twenty-five years and has been running Creative Canning Cuisine on Yahoogroups since 2002. The group grew from a few people to 1,100 members from around the world. Ms. Maack home-cans everything from jams, jellies, and preserves to soups, sauces, beans, stocks, and meat dishes. For many years, Ms. Maack published “Just Jeanne,” a weekly e-zine that went out to 4,500 subscribers and included a home-canning section. Her first cookbook, Healthy Cuisine, was published in 2006.

Breed Your Own Vegetable Varieties: The Gardener's & Farmer's Guide to Plant Breeding & Seed Saving

"Deppe invites you on a journey of discovery to reclaim the lost lore of our ancestors, to relearn the traditions of seed-saving and seed-breeding and to take back control of the seed.
Within you will find information not available in other garden books or anywhere else. Learn how to design trials, why and how far apart to isolate varieties for purity, how to understand and appreciate the subtleties of selection and why the detailed artistry of classical plant breeding makes most genetic engineering look like the work of simpletons.
Here is a woman who knows seeds, who knows the ineffable joys working with them brings, and who has penetrated deeply into the mysteries of their inner workings. She can be your guide as you chart your own path to restore and renew a time-honored tradition one experiment at a time."
C. R. Lawn, Fedco Seeds

There is nothing quite like this book in the world's literature—it is the Hope diamond of horticulture. In the field of edible plants, Carol Deppe is a modest legend who has been a matchmaker and midwife to many new vegetables.
In this book, Ms. Deppe explains how she and a few other masters of plant breeding have achieved their success. She encourages the rest of us to try our hands and hearts—and patience—at producing our own culinary gems. Ms. Deppe, who combines a doctorate in plant genetics with insatiable curiosity and soil-stained hands, will continue to inspire growers to participate in a creative process as ancient as farming itself.
This book is an intense and readable exposition of the science and art of plant breeding, which will inspire and inform any reader. Even the casual reader who doesn't take up the challenge of developing unique garden specialties will become aware of humanity's debt to our predecessors, who turned wildlings into the organisms that can feed all of us. Ms. Deppe deserves a special pedestal in the company of her kindred spirits for this book, a revised version of a work originally published in 1993.
John F. Swenson

Seed Sowing and Saving: Step-by-Step Techniques for Collecting and Growing More Than 100 Vegetables, Flowers, and Herbs

Here are step-by-step techniques for getting and growing free plants by saving seeds from more than 100 vegetables, herbs, and flowers. The book familiarizes readers with basic seed collecting and storing. Instruction is given on how to save seeds, sowing techniques, and the care and maintenance of seedlings. Over 300 two-color illustrations.

Saving Seeds: The Gardener's Guide to Growing and Storing Vegetable and Flower Seeds

This compact, clearly written book explains how to select, harvest, and store seeds from more than 100 vegetables and flowers commonly grown in home gardens. It is packed with common-sense advice including how to pollinate, how to avoid unwanted crosses, and which plant qualities to look for. Novice and skilled gardeners alike will wish to experiment with this rewarding and satisfying practice

Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardeners

Seed to Seed is a complete seed-saving guide that describes specific techniques for saving the seeds of 160 different vegetables. This book contains detailed information about each vegetable, including its botanical classification, flower structure and means of pollination, required population size, isolation distance, techniques for caging or hand-pollination, and also the proper methods for harvesting, drying, cleaning, and storing the seeds. Seed to Seed is widely acknowledged as the best guide available for home gardeners to learn effective ways to produce and store seeds on a small scale. The author has grown seed crops of every vegetable featured in the book, and has thoroughly researched and tested all of the techniques she recommends for the home garden. This newly updated and greatly expanded Second Edition includes additional information about how to start each vegetable from seed, which has turned the book into a complete growing guide. Local knowledge about seed starting techniques for each vegetable has been shared by expert gardeners from seven regions of the United States-Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast/Gulf Coast, Midwest, Southwest, Central West Coast, and Northwest.