Fermented foods are cheap and delicious. They help us better absorb essential nutrients, restore balance to our intestinal flora, and stimulate our immune system. To boot, they're incredibly easy to make at home! With 40 recipes for pickles, sauerkraut, kombucha, and more, 'Homemade Fermentation by Mortier Pilon' is the best place to get started. Reclaim the pantry culture and start building culinary self-reliance: This is fermentation like you've never DIY'd before.

With content from four titles and starting more than 20 years ago, this diverse collection pays homage to a history of wellness. It includes content from several Ogden Publications brands, including Mother Earth Living, The Herb Companion, Herbs for Health and Natural Home – four titles that have spent more than two decades helping readers achieve natural health, learn to garden and eat healing foods, make their homes more sustainable and efficient, and much more.

There are hundreds of ways to save money on your grocery or home repair bills: growing your own food, doing your own home repairs, preserving or baking your own food, and so much more. Mother Earth News and Grit have compiled five special guides that will help you save money on food and your homestead. You will learn how to buy and build your dream homestead, discover delicious homemade bread recipes, grow food in small spaces, and more.

Gardening A-Z brings you the best in vegetable gardening tips and instructions. With this handy, informative guide, you can choose the right varieties for your particular garden and discover new options you’ve never considered before. Our expert and time-tested advice will help you grow healthy, beautiful vegetables, which includes:

• Seven steps to growing superior asparagus spears
• Sweet beets, one of the sweetest and most nutritious of all vegetables
• Beautiful and bountiful broccoli
• Grow your own corn with the freshest flavor
• Start a cold-hardy crop of kale now for sweet soups and salads this winter
• Discover which types of onions are the best choices for your garden and kitchen
• Parsnips the ivory jewel of the root vegetables
• Fresh peas from the garden are a sweet and nutritious treat
• Peppers are easy to raise and as versatile as they are various
• Dozens of different varieties of potatoes you can grow in your garden

You’ll also learn to control pests naturally, plant to improve your soil, and find out when and how to harvest for the best flavor. Also check out seed sources, preservation methods and seed saving techniques. Whether this is your first foray into gardening or you have decades of experience, you’re sure to find helpful tips and instructions in these pages. Happy gardening!

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The Complete Guide to the Woodlot explores ways to get the most out of your woods.

This treasure-trove of bee knowledge has more than 75 ways to get more from your bees. Cover-to-cover, this 100-page guide includes great advice, tips, techniques, instructions, recipes and more to help you get started with beekeeping … or, if you are a seasoned beekeeper, to help you learn new tricks of the trade.

Keeping bees is a great hobby. It provides you with an unlimited supply of honey; the bees help pollinate your plants and crops; and can provide enjoyment for you and the whole family. This 100-page guide is filled with some of the best articles on keeping bees, building your own beehives, cooking with honey and how to identify different types of bees.

The secret – how enjoyable and rewarding owning and maintaining a backyard hive is – is out! Not only are the benefits of owning your own hive (or hives!) numerous, this hobby that will benefit your family, your land and the environment. More backyard beehives are popping up all over the country. Whether you are a seasoned beekeeper or on still on the fence about taking the leap and starting your own hive, the 5th edition of GRIT’s Guide to Backyard Bees and Honey is an excellent source to help you get started!