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Liana Krissoff Canning for a New Generation: Bold, Fresh Flavors for the Modern Pantry
Stewart Tabori & Chang 2010 1584798645 / 978-1-58479-864-4 Trade Paper New 8 x 9", 304 pages
“When I was growing up, canning was for old folks and cranks and separatists,” writes Liana Krissoff in her introduction to Canning for a New Generation. But not anymore. With soaring food prices and the increasing popularity of all things domestic and DIY, there’s never been a better time to revisit the centuries-old techniques of preserving food at home.
This hip, modern handbook is filled with fresh and new ways to preserve nature’s bounty throughout the year. Organized by season and illustrated with beautiful photographs, it offers detailed instructions and recipes for making more than 150 canned, pickled, dried, and frozen foods, as well as 50 inventive recipes for dishes using these foods (such as scones, yoghurt, French vanilla ice cream, cheese, etc.).
Basic information on canning techniques and lively sidebars round out this refreshing take on a classic cooking tradition.
One hundred full-colour photographs, thirty gift labels,
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Christopher and Dolores Lynn Nyerges Extreme Simplicity: Homesteading in the City
Chelsea Green 2002 1890132365 / 9781890132361 Trade Paper New 6 x 9
"The Nyergeses are gentle survivalists. Prepared to cope with the worst that nature or human craziness can deliver - earthquakes and droughts, power failures or terrorist attacks - they have devised ways of
growing and preserving garden produce
finding wild edibles
harvesting storm runoff for backup water supplies
preparing food with a wood stove and solar cooker
recycling everything from bottle caps to wood chips
Extreme Simplicity brings good humour, adaptability, and a passion for self-reliance to the challenges of living in the city. Get radical in your home town. The Nyergeses will show you how.
Christopher and Dolores Byerges have been successful at fashioning a livlihood doing what they love most, including market gardening and chemical-free landscaping. They teach courses on wild herbs, hiking and survival skills, animal husbandry, and beekeeping. ~ From back cover
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Elizabeth Peirce Grow Organic: A Simple Guide to Nova Scotia Vegetable Gardening
Halifax, Nova Scotia Nimbus Publishing 2011 1551097508 / 978-1-55109-750-3 Trade Paperback New 6.5 x 9", 148 pages
For Halifax customers, you can't get more local than this! Elizabeth Peirce is one of our own, passionate about gardening, local food and food security issues.
Grow Organic deals specifically with Nova Scotian issues, giving advice about our growing season, how to start, how to improve your soil, which types of vegetables grow best here, and where to get local organic seeds.
The book also contains a chapter on preserving the harvest, and another of inspirational profiles of specific gardening mentors and farmers from around the province.
The book is written in a friendly, straightforward manner, and is intended as a simple and accessible guide for people with a specific interest in organic vegetable gardening. It also includes many illustrative photographs and recipes.
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19.99 CDN
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Wilbur F. Eastman, Jr. Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish, & Game, A
Storey Publishing 2002 1580174574 / 978-1-58017-457-2 Trade paper New 6 x 9
This no-nonsense guide to canning, freezing, smoking and curing meat, fish and game is written in down-to-earth, informative, everyday language. It has been revised to comply with the latest health and safety guidelines.
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24.99 CDN
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Paul Stamets Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
Ten Speed Press 2005 1580085792 / 978-1-58008-579-3 Paper New 7.5 x 9
Mycelium Running is a manual for the mycological rescue of the planet. That’s right: growing more mushrooms may be the best thing we can do to save the environment, and in this groundbreaking text from mushroom expert Paul Stamets, you’ll find out how.
The basic science goes like this: Microscopic cells called “mycelium”--the fruit of which are mushrooms--recycle carbon, nitrogen, and other essential elements as they break down plant and animal debris in the creation of rich new soil. What Stamets has discovered is that we can capitalize on mycelium’s digestive power and target it to decompose toxic wastes and pollutants (mycoremediation), catch and reduce silt from streambeds and pathogens from agricultural watersheds (mycofiltration), control insect populations (mycopesticides), and generally enhance the health of our forests and gardens (mycoforestry and myco-gardening).
In this comprehensive guide, you’ll find chapters detailing each of these four exciting branches of what Stamets has coined “mycorestoration,” as well as chapters on the medicinal and nutritional properties of mushrooms, inoculation methods, log and stump culture, and species selection for various environmental purposes. Heavily referenced and beautifully illustrated, this book is destined to be a classic reference for be-mushroomed generations to come. ~ From publisher's description
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Sherri Brooks Vinton Put 'Em Up! A Comprehensive Home Preserving Guide for the Creative Cook from Drying and Freezing to Canning and Pickling
Storey Publishing 2010 1603425462 / 978-1-60342-546-9 Trade Paper New 7 3/8 x 9 1/8", 304 pages
Home preserving is back and better than every. Flavors are brighter, batch sizes are more flexible, and modern methods make the process safer and easier. Eating locally is on everybody's mind, and nothing is more local than Heirloom Salsa made from vine-fresh tomatoes or a quick batch of Ice-Box Berry Jam saved from the season's last berries. Even beginners who never made peach jam or dill pickles in their grandmothers kitchens are eager to pick up preserving skills as a way to save money, extend the local harvest, and control the quality of preserved ingredients.
With simple step-by-step instructions and 175 delicious recipes, Put ‘Em Up will have even the most timid beginners filling their pantries and freezers in no time! You’ll find complete how-to information for every kind of preserving: refrigerating, freezing, air- and oven-drying, cold- and hot-pack canning, and pickling.
Recipes range from the contemporary and daring — Wasabi Beans, Cherry and Black Pepper Preserves, Pickled Fennel, Figs in Honey Syrup, Sweet Pepper Marmalade, Berry Bourbon, Salsa Verde — to the very best versions of tried-and-true favorites, including applesauce and apple butter, dried tomatoes, marinara sauce, bread and butter pickles, classic strawberry jam, and much, much more. ~ Publisher's description
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Stephen Harrod Buhner Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation
Brewers Publications 1998 0937381667 / 978-0-937381-66-3 Trade Paper New 6x9", 534 pages
"Fermentation and plant use - as medicine, as psychotropics, as teachers, as companions on life's path - are an inescapable part of our exploration of what it means to be human. Ths this book conflicts with a number of popular beliefs about alchohol, plants, and the nature of material reality. It is, therefore, not politically correct.
...The ancient beers, created ... between 10,000 and 30,000 years ago, were quite different from what we know as beer today. Many were sacred beers, and hundreds contained medicinal herbs." ~ From the book
The author explores the sacredness and folklore of ancient fermentation as revealed through 200 plants and hive products. Includes 120 recipes for ancient and indigenous beers and meads from 31 countries and six continents.
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Mary Clemens Meyer & Susanna Meyer Saving the Seasons: How to Can, Freeze, or Dry Almost Anything
Herald Press 2010 0836195124 / 978-0-8361-9512-5 Trade Paperback New 8 x 8", 288 pages
Top Five Reasons To Preserve Your Own Food
~Eat from known, local food sources—year round!
~Fill your cupboards with foods free from chemical additives and preservatives.
~Lock in peak flavors and nutrition by preserving the bounty of the season.
~Taste the full flavors of homemade—store-bought brands just can't compare!
~Preserve foods while they're plentiful, and the benefits last all year—with tastes you won't soon forget.
Step by step, easy instructions on how to preserve baby food to vinegars and much in between. Lots of illustrations, trouble-shooting charts, and a resource list in the appendix.
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Carol Deppe The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times
Chelsea Green 2010 160358031X / 978-1-60358-031-1 Paper New 7.5 x 9.5
Scientist/gardener Carol Deppe combines her passion for gardening with newly emerging scientific information from many fields — resilience science, climatology, climate change, ecology, anthropology, paleontology, sustainable agriculture, nutrition, health, and medicine.
In the last half of The Resilient Gardener, Deppe extends and illustrates these principles with detailed information about growing and using five key crops: potatoes, corn, beans, squash, and eggs.
In this book you’ll learn how to:
Garden in an era of unpredictable weather and climate change
Grow, store, and use more of your own staple crops
Garden efficiently and comfortably (even if you have a bad back)
Grow, store, and cook different varieties of potatoes and save your own potato seed
Grow the right varieties of corn to make your own gourmet-quality fast-cooking polenta, cornbread, parched corn, corn cakes, pancakes and even savory corn gravy
Make whole-grain, corn-based breads and cakes using the author’s original gluten-free recipes involving no other grains, artificial binders, or dairy products
Grow and use popbeans and other grain legumes
Grow, store, and use summer, winter, and drying squash
Keep a home laying flock of ducks or chickens; integrate them with your gardening, and grow most of their feed.
The Resilient Gardener is both a conceptual and a hands-on gardening book, and is suitable for gardeners at all levels of experience. Resilience here is broadly conceived and encompasses a full range of problems, from personal hard times such as injuries, family crises, financial problems, health problems, and special dietary needs (gluten intolerance, food allergies, carbohydrate sensitivity, and a need for weight control) to serious regional and global disasters and climate change. It is a supremely optimistic as well as realistic book about how resilient gardeners and their gardens can flourish even in challenging times and help their communities to survive and thrive through everything that comes their way — from tomorrow through the next thousand years. ~ From publisher's description
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32.99 CDN
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