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Little Farm in the Henhouse brings you the joys and challenges of keeping a backyard flock of laying hens--with tips and techniques for healthy, happy chickens!When city girl Susan moves out to the country to start a homestead, getting a few hens seems like a great idea. Problem: what little she knew about farm animals was what she read in books. Still, since Susan and her husband John are big on self-reliance, they forge ahead with their plan for...
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After two city-bred Boomers weather their first, tumultuous year on their rural backyard farm, the couple foresees smooth sailing for the future...then they discover their homesteading journey has only begun. In this sequel to the award-winning memoir, Little Farm in the Foothills, Little Farm Homegrown follows the continuing adventures of modern homesteaders Susan and her husband John as they pursue organic food-growing and self-reliance in the foothills...
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An Irish story from the sleepy little village of Ballydara... In this luminous prequel to the short story "The Christmas Visitor," you'll meet the O'Donoghue family: Maeve, Declan, Nuala and Ava...and Frank, Maeve's husband. Frank is celebrating his retirement when he hears his son Declan's startling news. The next day, St. John's Eve (June 23rd), Frank heads for his favorite getaway, a secret glen, to ponder how to help his son, and perhaps make...
4) Little Farm in the Garden: A Practical Mini-Guide for Raising Selected Fruits and Vegetables Home
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From the author of the "Little Farm" homesteading memoirs comes a friendly, down-to-earth little guide for starting and maintaining a thriving food garden. Right now, we're in the middle of a global health crisis-and perhaps you're feeling helpless and anxious about the future. But there is something you and I and everyone else can do about this tragic, unforeseen situation: Grow some of your own food-in a pot, a small plot or a garden. In "normal"...
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When two Boomers flee the city for a slower, simpler, and more serene lifestyle, they discover that simplicity can get awfully complicated... and life becomes anything but serene.
In this award-winning, true-life tale for gardeners, nature-lovers, and dreamers of all ages, Little Farm in the Foothills follows a midlife couple's pursuit of the "new" Great American Dream-living closer to the land-as they start growing their own organic food, living...
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An office attraction, a sisters' love story, a crossroads at Christmas... Dublin girl Emma Carey has just embarked on another fresh start-the job of her dreams at Ireland Place, an Irish arts center in a picturesque Victorian mansion near Seattle. At thirty-one, sweet, plucky Emma, with her sister Hazel at her side, is finally poised for career success…if she can only avoid her fatal flaw-the one that's ruined every other job: falling for her boss....
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A summer in Seattle, a charming little shop, and the once-in-a-lifetime chance at a new life...In this sparkling novella, Dublin girl Emma Carey jumps at the opportunity to start fresh in America-her old friend Fitzwilliam has offered her a job running a picturesque Irish shop in Seattle. At 30, she's always played it safe, but the shop sounds perfect-and Emma's wise younger sister Hazel is entirely supportive. Arriving in Seattle, Emma discovers...
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What happens when an unlikely friendship turns to something more? This Special Edition of Becoming Emma includes two previously published, connected short stories, The Secret Well and The Christmas Visitor! An office attraction and a sisters' love story... Dublin girl Emma Carey has just embarked on another fresh start-the job of her dreams at Ireland Place, an Irish arts center in a picturesque Victorian mansion near Seattle. At thirty-one, sweet,...
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Just in time for St. Patrick's Day...An uplifting romantic tale, a nanny-boss love story, a ramshackle cottage in a quaint Irish village…With her career going down the tubes, Dublin girl Emma Carey vows to fulfill her one, simple New Year's resolution: make a quick journey to rural County Galway, to do a small favor for her former colleague, Declan O'Donoghue-a man who had almost been a friend. And who, for a lovely little while, had been more than...
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In this breezy Irish tale, twenty-six-year-old Aislin is at a crossroads. As a Dublin single mammy, a lot of her life needs improvement, yet what she really needs is a father. Not for herself-she so does not need a father-but for her young son, daddy-hungry Kevin. And she's determined to succeed at motherhood, if nothing else. So Aislin follows the mad impulse to track down the perfect father-figure for her little boy. Who else but her first love,...