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.

Mother Earth News has put together a beautiful guide to help you boost your health with hundreds of tips for growing and harvesting herbs and spices and then cooking with those homegrown herbs and spices. There are more than 99 tips for culinary greatness inside this 100-page guide that features articles and recipes such as Chocolate Dessert Ravioli, herbal sodas, Botanical Breads, and much more.

Discover how simple and inexpensive it is to dry herbs and spices. Learn which herbs are missing from your kitchen and add new recipes to your cooking routine with these oft-neglected culinary treasures. Learn how to make herbal oils and butters that make great – and inexpensive – gifts. Explore herbs from around the world and learn how they play a crucial role in traditional cuisine all across the globe. Read all the uses for mint and no longer take this classic herb for granted.

More articles include:

• A Simple Kitchen Herb Garden – A small garden filled with herbs is one of the simplest gardens you can grow. Grow these 10 herbs for a garden bursting with flavor.
• Good Vibrations with Herbal Libations – Relax with a cool, refreshing beverage infused with flavorful herbs.
• Frozen Flavor – Whether or not you call them sorbets, sherbets, granitas, or ices, nothing could be simpler to make than these frozen herbal desserts.
• Getting to Know Horseradish – From fiery to fabulous, this spicy root is a flavor-lover’s dream.
• World’s Healthiest Culinary Herbs and Spices – These five flavorful ingredients are standouts not just for taste, but for their many well-documented health benefits.

There is nothing better in the winter than cooking a homemade soup or stew with vegetables you grew and preserved from your own garden. Having access to delicious, homegrown food all year around not only helps keep you happy and healthy, it also saves you some money.

This 100-page guide is filled with articles with instructions for preserving food, whether it's canning, freezing or dehydrating. Plus, you can read about backyard chickens, the best ways to store fresh vegetables, how to make cheap garden beds and so much more.

Read about how composting will help you turn food and yard waste into garden gold. Discover what you can do in your winter garden and six top crops for winter harvest. Learn how to raise backyard chickens so you can fresh eggs each morning. Follow step-by-step instructions for making your own perfect pie crust. Enjoy fall's sweetest harvest by making and trying homemade apple cider.

More articles include:

• Easy Ways to Preserve Fresh Food: Your guide to canning, freezing, dehydrating and other simple, seasonal storage methods.
• Expert Advice for Greenhouse Growing: Build a greenhouse in your backyard and you'll be amazed at its many uses.
• Save Money on Groceries: Buying in bulk and freezing or canning fruits and veggies are great ways to enjoy better food and cut your costs by up to 85 percent.
• Homemade Butter: Whether you want it creamy or cultured, learn the secrets of fresh, sweet, homemade butter.
• 6 Easy Ways to Use Peanuts: Peanuts are rich, healthful and versatile. Discover several classic ways to prepare them, and find inspiration for new nutty creations.

This new, exciting resource guide from Mother Earth News will have you eating fresh food all year long! Mother Earth News Guide to Fresh Food All Year brings you dozens of great recipes for every season.

Find easy ways to preserve your fresh food, learn how to make homemade bread and butter, enjoy healthier, tastier meat, all with the help of this nearly 100-page guide filled with some of the best articles, recipes and photographs from Mother Earth News.

A variety of articles fill the pages of this fresh, new guide. Articles such as:

• Cozy and Comfy Fall Recipes
• Why Whole Wheat Is Way Better
• Homemade Butter: The Best You'll Ever Have
• Kitchen Counter Gardening: Try Sprouts
• Grow Your Own Mushrooms
• Easy and Healthy Summer Recipes
• And much more!

Enjoy delicious recipes for every season of the year; from Butternut Squash Lasagna in the fall to fresh Berries with Crème Fraiche in the spring, from healthy Quinoa-Zucchini Cakes with Summer Herbs in the summer to hearty Roasted and Braised Duck with Sauerkraut and Root Vegetables during the winter months.

You'll also find advice on growing fresh food in the winter, advice on greenhouse growing, winter soups, homemade cheese, hearth cooking and more.

Packed with beautiful, mouthwatering photos and excellent advice from Mother Earth News, this exciting new guide is a must-have for any kitchen, any time of the year!

Eat better. Save money. That’s the theme of the fourth edition of the Mother Earth News Guide to Fresh Food All Year. This 100-page guide shows how to grow, maintain and harvest your own food all year long. At least 20 A wide variety of articles – 20 in all - cover everything from growing the best tomatoes to building a mini-greenhouse, from preserving fresh food to making homemade butter.

Read how to use cedar fence boards to build produce storage bins that move easily from garden to pantry or basement. Discover how to make delicious homemade bread and say goodbye to the intimidation factor in baking bread. Learn how to have the freshest eggs by raising your own backyard chickens.

Other articles include:

• Freezing Fruits and Vegetables from Your Garden - Round out your food preservation regimen! Follow these straightforward freezing tips to turn your garden harvests into sensational, off-season meals.
• Quick Hoops: Easy-to-Make Mini-Greenhouses – Stretch the growing season to savor fresh, homegrown veggies all year by using these nifty quick hoops in your winter vegetable garden.
• The Incredible Versatility of Eggs – Eggs can star in numerous recipes, from simple scrambled eggs to tangy pickled options to elegant soufflés.
• Grow Your Own Mushrooms – With the help of a simple do-it-yourself kit, you can harvest lots of fresh, tasty fungi.
• Make Delicious, Low-Sugar Jams and Jellies – With these simple ingredients, you can craft naturally sweet, low-calorie preserves.

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

The editors at MOTHER EARTH NEWS have compiled the best money-saving articles into one invaluable guide. Guide to Saving Money on Food will help you cut your food bills in half with simple bread recipes, instructions how to preserve your own food, gardening techniques, tips on grocery shopping, and so much more.

Reboost your health with hundreds of tips from the Mother Earth News Guide to Turmeric & Super Herbs. Inside this 100-page guide you’ll learn more about turmeric, garlic, and other good-for-you herbs. Read the research and eat more garlic; learn to use natural sources to sweeten food; grow a stress-relieving tea garden; learn more about aromatherapy; discover everything to know about essential oils; and more.

Learn the four bulk herb companies you can trust, companies that produce high-quality bulk herbs in sustainable ways. Read about floral therapy and how healing flowers off a bouquet of benefits to our skin and our psyches. Discover 19 strategies to prevent and treat colds and flu. The best multipurpose, easy-to-grow healing herbs belong in every gardener’s medicine cabinet for their range of benefits, and they can be found in the pages of this beautiful guide.

Other articles include:

• Household Uses for Witch Hazel – Discover why humble witch hazel should be your go-to remedy for first aid and skin ailments.
• The Naturally Aromatic Home – Check out these natural blends – with options for any mood and personality – to freshen your living spaces without toxic chemicals.
• Make Life Difficult for Disease – Strengthen the body to fight against diseases before they even have a chance to grab hold.
• Healing Soups – Enhance wellness and ward off disease with these tasty and nutritious soup recipes.
• Growing, Harvesting and Using Chives – Discover the many healthy ways to use this attractive, easy-to-grow, cancer-fighting perennial.

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

Not only are there great articles on growing a successful garden in the Mother Earth News How to Grow and Preserve Your Own Food guide, you’ll also read how to make those delicious fruits and vegetables last throughout the year. Filled with helpful tips, step-by-step instructions, beautiful photographs and more, this guide contains hundreds of great ways to achieve food security for you and your family.

Learn how to grow a great fall garden with broccoli, carrots, spinach and more. Follow the simple instructions on an easy-to-make mini-greenhouse to help you stretch your growing season. Save money and enjoy delicious, homemade foods all winter with food preservation instructions. Read how to master the art of fermentation to make your own cheese, sauerkraut, beer, bread and more. Discover how to keep backyard chickens and bees for the best homegrown eggs and fresh, enjoyable honey.

The guide also includes:

• Top Gardening Challenges and How to Overcome Them: From rogue rabbits and 4-inch-long grasshoppers to clay soil and summer drought, a variety of problems can vex us in our gardens. Veteran organic growers detail how they cope.
• Instant, No-Dig Garden Beds: Create or expand your food garden with this simple, time-saving technique.
• Pick for Peak Flavor: Knowing when to harvest each crop will guarantee the freshest, most flavorful and nutritious produce from your garden.
• Freezing Fruits and Vegetables From Your Garden: Round out your food preservation regimen! Use these great freezing tips to turn your garden harvests into delicious, off-season meals.
• Sweet Cider Roundup: Make your own cider using this advice, which includes instructions for converting a washing machine into an extra-large juicer.