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Now available! New from bestselling author Mark Shepard! Written as a companion to the bestseller, Restoration Agriculture, this book will help farmers capture water in areas they want to, and avoid having water flow immediately to the low point. The result? Less water expense, healthier crops and livestock, and less erosion ... just to name a few. What you will read in this book is a distillation of over 25 years of on-the-ground experience working with and modifying the Yeomans’...

Natural Cattle Care is a comprehensive analysis of farming techniques that keep the health of the animal in mind. Pat Coleby believes that how you farm determines the health of your livestock, and she brings a wealth of animal husbandry experience to bear in this analysis of many serious problems of contemporary farming practices, focusing in particular on how poor soils lead to mineral-deficient plants and ailing farm animals. Encompassing every facet of farm management, from the mineral components of...

A hands-on barn and field guide designed for quick and easy use, presenting a thorough examination of animals in the barn and then listing symptoms with many pictures of what the farmer is seeing, possible conclusions, and then giving a concise set of treatments. The treatments are ones that Dr. Karreman has found to work consistently well during 15 years in the trenches working with organic cows. Basic backgrounding in the fundamentals for organic and holistic thinking about livestock is...

With much thought and research, Dr. Karreman describes how cows can be treated for a wide variety of problems with plant-derived and biological medicines. Drawing upon veterinary treatments from before synthetic pharmaceuticals, and tempering them with modern knowledge and clinical experience, Dr. Karreman bridges the world of natural treatments with life in the barn in a rational and easy-to-understand way. In describing treatments for common dairy cow diseases, he covers practical aspects of biologics, botanical medicines, homeopathic remedies, acupuncture and...

City-bred Henrietta seeks self-discovery at Camp Whispering Pines, but her carefully constructed walls crumble under the intense gaze of the authoritative Autumn. Amidst rustic cabins and hushed secrets, a forbidden passion flares, fueled by stolen nights and an unyielding desire. As summer wanes, their clandestine affair becomes a desperate race against time, each touch, each kiss, a searing imprint destined to linger. Can their intense connection survive the impending separation, or will their summer of passion fade with the autumn...

A marauding leopard.A father who's a new single parent of three adventurous young children.Yet another task poor Bob Dukes is unsuited for.This is the second story featuring Bob Dukes, diffident hero and single parent to his three children, Poppy, Suze and Charlie. Bob is now beginning to find his feet as the newly appointed Commercial Officer and aide to the Governor of Mazita.Life would be sweet if he could just get on with his real job but every time he...

Phoebe has a gift she doesn’t want to lose.Phoebe is a dressmaker who loves to search a warehouse full of fabric until a bolt demands to be made into the perfect article of clothing for one of her friends.J.R. is a sheriff whose idea of a good time is running a military-level obstacle course through mud.When these two cross paths, the attraction is something neither one is prepared for.But when Phoebe was young, her Irish grandmother warned her that falling...

The world halted when the God of Death vanished.Alena has spent the better part of a century hunting and banishing demons to the Underworld. With the help of her best friend, Vasacardi—a charming but dangerous vampire—they have completed every mission placed upon them without fail.When an exorcism goes fatally wrong, Alena and Vasacardi are pulled into a celestial war that has raged across the universe for centuries.To prevent the end of all existence, they must descend into the dark depths...

You were not supposed to learn how to live without them.One moment, life feels familiar.The next, everything is split into before and after.People tell you to be strong.To give it time.To move on.But grief doesn’t work that way.When someone you love dies, the world doesn’t just change, it disappears and reassembles into something unrecognizable. The simplest tasks feel impossible. The silence feels louder than anything you’ve ever known. And somewhere in the middle of it all, you’re left wondering:How am...

I’d planned the perfect vacation, including a massive surprise for my husband: his best friend, Nick, had agreed to join us. Then arrived in the quaint Oregon coast town, to discover that my cheap vacation rental was a one-room cabin not a two bedroom cottage. And the beds? They were right next to each other.I could reach out and touch Nick, if I wanted to. Not that I wanted to.Waking up to my husband’s body pressed close and Nick only...