Perfect for anyone looking for tips and tricks to eat better and save money, the seventh edition of the Mother Earth News Guide to Growing Your Own Food has advice for growing tomatoes, preserving fresh food, raising chickens for meat, and much more!

Learn how to use cold frames to grow more food. Discover how to keep bees naturally. Get the best eggs ever from your backyard chickens. Try fresh spring recipes using ingredients straight from the garden.

Other articles include:

• Seed-Starting Basics: Start seeds yourself to get a jump on the growing season and enjoy unique plant varieties.
• 21st Century Homestead Food Security: By working with the land, we can produce much of our own food.
• Container Gardening with Vegetables and Herbs: Lacking a good garden spot? Create a bountiful, diverse garden in containers.
• Raising Rabbits for Meat and Breeding Stock: These multipurpose lagomorphs require little and yield lots; an ideal quality that supports raising rabbits for meat.
• To Bake the Best Bread Grind Your Own Grain: Healthy reasons you should consider grinding your own grain at home.

The MOTHER EARTH NEWS Guide to Healing Herbs, 3rd Edition is filled with more than 131 herbs for growing, cooking and healing. You'll learn 21 recipes for better health, read about in-depth plant profiles, make your own cough drops, find cancer-fighting herbs and more.

This 100-page guide is filled with articles that cover everything from making your own herbal medicines to creating herbal vinegars. You'll be able to read about the best herbal remedies; learn about antibacterial food and herbs; dive into making your own natural arthritis remedies; or discover how to use calendula for treating those minor burns, bruises and inflammation.

More and more households are using herbs and herbal remedies for growing, cooking and healing. The fifth edition of the MOTHER EARTH NEWS Guide to Healing Herbs is filled with articles to help guide you through growing and using herbs. Learn the household uses for tea tree oil, witch hazel, turmeric, cinnamon and more. Read what herbs you should have on hand in your medicine chest and what herbs help with what ailment. Delicious recipes and helpful gardening tips are also included.

The newest edition of Guide to Healing Herbs is packed with valuable and illuminating information on more than 125 herbs for healing, cooking and growing! This 100-page guide is filled with articles on herbs, herbal remedies, healthy recipes and more.

With the Mother Earth News Guide to Herbs A to Z you will learn all you need to know about the different types of herbs that are all around us. Whether it’s finding out how to use a certain herb in a recipe or how to grow the herb itself, this is your one-stop resource for herb gardening tips, delicious recipes, natural remedies, and more.

The articles featured are fun and will help you save a few dollars. Some tips and advice included in these articles include: Cut Your Food Bills in Half, Backyard Chicken Basics, Adding Insulation Can Save You Money!, Brew Your Own Beer, Start Your Own Tool-Sharing Program, and more!

Are you looking for simple ideas to save money? The Mother Earth News Guide to Living on Less, 7th Edition has dozens of ideas to help you save money on food, housing, and energy, while also living a greener life. This 100-page guide is packed full of articles for earning a living on a farm by building a tiny home without a mortgage, planting a bountiful garden, raising livestock, and more.

This 100-page guide has everything you need to create the garden of your dreams. Everything from natural insect control to tomato cage plans, from fertilizer to growing berries is covered in this colorful, helpful guide.

An information-packed beginner's guide article will help you discover the joys of gardening, including everything from instructions on building the soil to a list of beginner-friendly crops to grow and harvest. Other articles cover how to make your own compost, improve your soil, build your own mini greenhouses, and keep chickens in your garden.