Mother Earth News has covered a lot of content in 2019! From homesteading and livestock to natural health and gardening, each issue published was full of information to help readers live a more sustainable and independent lifestyle. Now, in The Best of Mother Earth News, all the best articles are together in one special edition! Whether it’s learning how to organize your homestead, manipulate your microclimate, build your dream log home, or something else, the information in this issue will help you take the next step.
Keeping chickens isn’t just a common practice on homestead settings, it’s also taking the urban community by storm. Whether you’re raising a flock in the suburbs or on a small farm, the articles found in Community Chickens Guide to Backyard Chickens will help you learn to keep and maintain a flock of your own.
As raising chickens becomes more popular, the information you’re able to search through is more widespread. The Community Chickens Guide to Backyard Chickens Set, includes three special issues that will prove a great starting point to help you raise your new feathered friends. From helping you choose the right breed to showing you the benefits of keeping chickens in the garden, all the information you’ll need is packed into these three issues.
Keeping chickens is a wonderfully rewarding experience on the homestead or in your urban community. Whether you have 5 chicks or 500, the articles found in Community Chickens Guide to Backyard Chickens, 2nd Edition will provide you with valuable information to keep your flock safe, healthy, and thriving.
From choosing the perfect breed for your situation to making delicious recipes with your bounty of eggs, this guide will help you from start to finish. The special issue gives an inside look at all things related to flocks, as well as providing you the opportunity to explore topics such as raising healthy chicks, preparing for the winter months, protecting your flocks from outside predators, and more! No matter your skill level, you will want this resource for all your chicken-related questions.
Articles include:
• The Best Backyard Chicken Breeds for Kids
• Why Raise Heritage Livestock?
• Seven Safety Tips for Free-Ranging Chickens
• Treating and Preventing Lice on Chickens
• Affordable Ways to Keep Your Flock Warm
• And more!
There’s a lot more to keeping chickens than bringing them home and watching them grow up. As they grow from egg to mature hen or rooster, the information available for how to best take care of your flock is plentiful. The Community Chickens Guide to Backyard Chickens, 3rd Edition is the perfect place to start your research. You’ll learn how to prevent and treat sick chicks, what breeds thrive in certain climates, the proper care for baby chicks, tips for protecting your flock from predators, and more! Whether you’re a new flock owner or have been raising chickens for years, this special issue will set you up with the information you need to help your feathered friends stay healthy and thrive.
Get all the animal know-how, big or small, with our Backyard Animals Package from Grit! Whether you're thinking about keeping chickens in your backyard, breeding rabbits in a colony, or raising barnyard animals, this package has you covered. Our limited-time package includes three specially curated issues from Grit, including Guide to Barnyard Animals, Guide to Chickens, and Guide to Backyard Rabbits, 6th Edition.
We’ve put together this special Grit Country Living Set for those who want who to learn more about country life and expand their skill sets! This set includes: Grit Archive 2006-2019, Grit Premium Farmers Markets, Grit Guide to Chickens, and Grit Premium: Guide to Frugal Country Living.
Read about basic surviving skills, turkey hunting, whitetails, and more in the GRIT Country Skills Series Guide to Hunting. Whether you’re a beginner or have been out hunting hundreds of times, this guide has helpful tips for a successful hunting season.
Anyone, at any age, can enjoy the benefits and pleasures of keeping a backyard chicken flock. Whether you have yet to take the plunge and buy your very first chickens or are a seasoned chicken owner, the newest Guide to Backyard Chickens is an enjoyable read for everyone! This guide from Grit is 100 pages of articles written by chicken experts. It provides more than 65 keys to keeping a healthy, productive flock, plus recipes for eggs and chicken meat, DIY chicken coops, and information on owning guinea fowl, ducks and geese.
At 100 full-color pages, this one-of-a-kind reference book is designed to arm you with all the information needed to enjoy the simple country pleasures of farm-fresh eggs and poultry, straight from your own backyard.
GRIT's Guide to Backyard Chickens
includes an extensive collection of relevant articles, including: • Keep Chickens Comfortable in All Temperatures
• Best Chicken Breeds
• Egg and Chicken Recipe
• Free-Range Flocks
• DIY Coops
• Explore the Entertaining Behavior of Your Flock
• Learn More from the Experts Who Blog for GRIT
• Taking Precautions – Recent outbreaks of salmonella highlight the need to care when tending a backyard flock
• Eggs, Eggs, and More Eggs! Once your flock has started laying eggs, what do you do with all the extras?
• Fermentations for the Flock – Improve your poultry’s health while saving money at the feed store
Raising rabbits has never been easier with the help the new Grit Guide to Backyard Rabbits, 4th edition. This guide has more than 43 keys to raising happy, healthy rabbits along with helpful advice to find the breed for you, instructions for keeping rabbits out of your garden, advice on how to build the best hutches and equipment, and so much more.
Read about the necessary tools, equipment and routines it requires to keep healthy rabbits. Discover the basic bunny diet, and how feeding your rabbits a healthy mixture of pellets, hay and a few treats will keep them happy and strong. Learn how to ban bunnies from your garden by building a safe, simple and humane trap to keep uninvited critters out of your garden. Rabbit housing plans are included for a good weekend do-it-yourself project.
Other articles include:
Looking to start raising rabbits for meat? Want to be successful in the rabbit show ring? Wondering how you can keep those pesky wild rabbits out of your garden? GRIT Guide to Backyard Rabbits is the answer to all these questions and many more. Inside this 100-page guide you'll find more than 69 keys to a successful rabbit-raising enterprise. Nearly 20 articles are included, as well as heartwarming photos and a list of recommended rabbit resources.