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More then 119 herbs for growing, cooking and healing are covered in this glossy-paged guide from MOTHER EARTH NEWS. The Guide to Women's Health covers a variety of topics for women of every age. From learning which herbs you should be using at what age, to strengthening your bones, this guide is filled from cover-to-cover with valuable information, tips, advice and recipes for women's health.

This 100-page guide has helpful tips and advice for which ever stage of life you're in. Articles in this guide include:

• 5 Herbs for Women's Health
• Color Your Hair Naturally
• Natural Fertility Enhancers
• Healing by Way of Berries
• Breathe Well, Be Well
• And much more!

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Enjoy a bountiful garden harvest this fall with the informative articles in this third edition of the MOTHER EARTH NEWS How to Grow and Preserve Your Own Food. From cover to cover, this glossy-paged guide contains tips and techniques for growing your own fruits and vegetables, and preserving them using simple, easy-to-learn techniques.

Learn how to grow winter tomatoes indoors all through the season; harvest the freshest mushrooms with the help of a do-it-yourself kit; discover how to make sauerkraut; and more. This guide includes detailed articles on extending your growing season with greenhouses and cold frames, including how to build an easy hoop house for less than $1,000. You'll also learn how to build better soil with free organic fertilizers (including two you won't even need to pay for.)

The editors of MOTHER EARTH NEWS have filled this 100-page guide with some of their best gardening and preserving articles. Articles include:

• Savor Summer's Harvest All Year Long
• Instant No-Dig Garden Beds
• Use Wood Mulch to Build Great Garden Soil
• Build a Solar Food Dehydrator
• Grow Sage: Simple, Beautiful, Delicious

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Looking for a way to make delicious, homemade bread? How about advice on how to grow your best fall garden this year? Need tips for picking out chickens that produce the best eggs ever? Look no farther than this 100-page guide from MOTHER EARTH NEWS. Full of articles that instruct, help and point readers in the right direction for eating fresh food all year long, Guide to Real Food All Year has nearly 20 articles that cover everything from drying tomatoes to making your own cider, from growing great salads to saving time and energy with pressure cookers.

With beautiful pictures, this guide explains how to eat better and save money. Readers will learn how to choose inexpensive cuts of grass-fed beef, free-range chicken and pastured pork for better nutrition and great flavor. Gardeners will read how to grow colorful heirloom corns for improved nutrition and great taste. Farmers market goers will learn how to dry the harvest they buy to stock up on homegrown snacks and convenience foods for year-round eating.

Articles include:

• Homemade Butter: The Best You'll Ever Have
• Why Whole Wheat Is Way Better
• Simple Tips for Better Garden Soil
• Use Cold Frames to Grow More Food
• Learn to Can for Homegrown Flavor

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Bring back the holidays with the new CAPPER's Farmer Holiday Special. Experience the nostalgia of homemade gifts, classic recipes, and more traditions from Christmases past on the farm. From roasting a turkey 1860s style to creating homemade gift jars, from satisfying the seasonal sweet tooth to savoring the songs of Christmas, this special edition offers up a buffet of knowledge.

In the more than 20 articles, you'll find delicious recipes, beautiful pictures and memorable holiday stories from CAPPER's readers just like you. Read "Party Like the Pilgrims" and learn classic and contemporary recipes to fix for your Thanksgiving feast. Bake scrumptious treats from everyone's favorite squash in "The Great Pumpkin." Learn how festive firs have long participated in the traditional American Christmas celebration in "O Christmas Tree!" "Make Your Own Soap" teaches you how to make beautiful homemade bars of soap to give for holiday gifts.

More articles include:

• Heart of the Home: Far From Home for the Holidays - Readers recall holidays spent in unfamiliar surroundings.
• The Sweetest Thing - Upgrade your standby cookie recipes to showstopping holiday gifts.
• Homemade Holiday Greetings and Gifts - Make simple and functional gifts, as well as homemade greeting cards and gift boxes, bags and tags for loved ones.
• Make the Most of Playing Host - Everything you need to host a simple, elegant and stress-free gathering.
• The Happiest Homemade Christmas - A penny-pinching year teaches a young girl that joy and happiness don't come from material possessions.
• Sing the Songs of Christmas - Carols evolved as a way to communicate Christmas thought.

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We have digitized more than 12,000 articles and web posts and compiled them in a searchable format so you can have 43 years of Mother Earth News at the tip of your fingers. The easy-to-use interface will allow you to search for each and every article published in Mother Earth News between 1970 and 2012.

Mother Earth News has been the leader of sustainable and wiser living for 43 years, and with this archive, you'll quickly see why. The magazine has been publishing articles about homesteading, real food, sustainability and alternative energy since 1970.

Find articles about underground homes, cheap solar power, organic gardening and raising chickens -- plus hundreds of do-it-yourself projects and much more.

You'll find directions for making your own solar water heater, wood fences, custom furniture, a dollhouse, snow shoes and even a cabin.

Mother Earth News has also published hundreds of healthy, down-to-earth recipes, and the archive includes all of the recipes we've published in the magazine up to 2012. From gooseberry pie and homemade jerky to hummus and morel mushroom quiche, you'll find something to satisfy every appetite.

You can own every issue of Mother Earth News on DVD. Find almost every story, tip and technique published in the magazine from 1970-2012 -- more than 12,000 articles, including hundreds of pages never in print on sustainable living archived on one convenient, searchable disk. Access what you want, when you want it, without the need of an Internet connection.

Please Note: This DVD is a PC DVD-ROM for use in a PC or Macintosh computer. It is not a video and will not work in DVD video players.

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This DVD is designed to run on PC and Mac platforms. Please note this DVD is not compatible with the latest upgrade of Mountain Lion (Mac OS 10.8), in particular Java 7, and the latest version of Snow Leopard Java for Mac v10.6 update 13 (13.9.2).

You will need one of the following setups to run this DVD:

• With an IBM-compatible computer: Microsoft® Windows 98 SE (Second Edition) or newer; with Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 or newer. You also will need Java Virtual Machine (VM) version 1.3 (free download from www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp) or newer browser plug-in with Java enabled on your browser and computer.
• With an Apple Computer: Mac OS X with Safari 3.2.525.27.1 or newer and Java. Use the Software Update feature (available on the Apple menu) to check that you have the most up-to-date version of Java for your Mac.
• For Mac OS 9.2.2, this DVD must be run in Netscape 7.0.2 with Apple MRJ 2.2.5. (Both available free from www.versiontracker.com.)
• A DVD-ROM drive (auto-start should be enabled).

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We have digitized more than 12,000 articles and web posts and compiled them in a searchable format so you can have 43 years of Mother Earth News at the tip of your fingers. The easy-to-use interface will allow you to search for each and every article published in Mother Earth News between 1970 and 2012.

Mother Earth News has been the leader of sustainable and wiser living for 43 years, and with this archive, you'll quickly see why. The magazine has been publishing articles about homesteading, real food, sustainability and alternative energy since 1970.

Find articles about underground homes, cheap solar power, organic gardening and raising chickens -- plus hundreds of do-it-yourself projects and much more.

You'll find directions for making your own solar water heater, wood fences, custom furniture, a dollhouse, snow shoes and even a cabin.

Mother Earth News has also published hundreds of healthy, down-to-earth recipes, and the archive includes all of the recipes we've published in the magazine up to 2012. From gooseberry pie and homemade jerky to hummus and morel mushroom quiche, you'll find something to satisfy every appetite.

You can own every issue of Mother Earth News on this CD set. Find every story, tip and technique published in the magazine from 1970-2012 -- more than 12,000 articles, including hundreds of pages never in print on sustainable living archived on one convenient, searchable disk. Access what you want, when you want it, without the need of an Internet connection.

Please Note: These CD-ROMs are a PC CD-ROM for use in a PC or Macintosh computer. It is not a video and will not work in DVD video players.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

This disc set is designed to run on PC and Mac platforms. Please note this DVD is not compatible with the latest upgrade of Mountain Lion (Mac OS 10.8), in particular Java 7, and the latest version of Snow Leopard Java for Mac v10.6 update 13 (13.9.2).

You will need one of the following setups to run this set:

• With an IBM-compatible computer: Microsoft® Windows 98 SE (Second Edition) or newer; with Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5 or newer. You also will need Java Virtual Machine (VM) version 1.3 (free download from www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp) or newer browser plug-in with Java enabled on your browser and computer.
• With an Apple Computer: Mac OS X with Safari 3.2.525.27.1 or newer and Java. Use the Software Update feature (available on the Apple menu) to check that you have the most up-to-date version of Java for your Mac.
• For Mac OS 9.2.2, this set must be run in Netscape 7.0.2 with Apple MRJ 2.2.5. (Both available free from www.versiontracker.com.)
• A CD-ROM drive (auto-start should be enabled).

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Learn to cut your food bills in half. Live off the grid without using any propane. Build your own low-cost, multipurpose greenhouse. Live on less and love it with the 100-page MOTHER EARTH NEWS Guide to Self-Reliance and Country Skills, 2nd Edition. With more than 20 articles, this guide has hundreds of great ideas for self-reliant living. From preserving food to small-space gardening, from backyard chickens to making your own yogurt and cheese, Guide to Self-Reliance and Country Skills has a wide variety of information that will help you lead a sustainable life.

Bake your own crispy gorgeous homemade loaves with the simple technique covered in this guide. Learn to brew your own beer and make uniquely flavored, affordable drinks at home. Follow step-by-step advice for choosing the right woodstove for your home. Build permanent beds and paths in your garden to protect the soil and preserve its fertility. Also, enjoy reading a compilation of more than 25 of the best reader-written tips for wiser living, including a soothing herbal soak, how to freeze extra eggs, instructions for making durable tomato stakes and more.

Other articles include:

• Egg Nutrients
• Go Solar for Free Hot Water
• Keep a Family Cow and Enjoy Delicious Milk, Cream, Cheese and More
• 75 Safe and Effective Herbal Remedies
• 8 Easy Projects for Instant Energy Savings
• Have Sawmill, Will Travel

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From craft projects to guides for your woodstoves and chimneys, from delicious recipes to sowing seeds, CAPPER'S Farmer Spring 2013 has a variety of projects for getting you through the winter, and your garden and home ready for spring. With 100 pages of tips, recipes, projects, photographs and more to help you gear up for spring, this resourceful guide will have you and your family busy all season long.

Feel the warmth of spring with this invaluable, treasure-trove of knowledge with tips for winterizing your home and enjoyable craft projects that the whole family can do. Enjoy making your own Valentine's Day cards, dyeing Easter Eggs with natural dyes, following recipes for soups, meat pies and chocolate goodies. Learn to mend and recycle clothing, sow your own seeds, prepare your garden for winter, bake delicious St. Patrick's Day recipes and more.

More articles include:

• Preparing for Winter
• Wood Stove Cooking
• Recycled Sweater Blanket
• Heart of the Home: Winter Projects
• Vintage Cookbook Recipes
• Savory Pies
• Campfire Cooking
• Living off the Land
• And more!

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Both an enlightening documentary and a stirring call to action, FRESH outlines the vicious cycle of our current food production methods, while also celebrating the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are reinventing our food system.

Starring: Ytit Chauhan, David Ball, Joel Salatin, Will Allen
Directed by: Ana Sofia Joanes
Runtime: 1 hour 11 minutes
Release year: 2009
Studio: Docurama