Handcrafted Soap Makers Guild, Inc.

With just a quarter acre of land, you can feed a family of four with fresh, organic food year-round. This comprehensive guide to self-sufficiency gives you all the information you need to grow and preserve a variety of vegetables, fruits, herbs, nuts, and grains; raise chickens for eggs and meat; raise cows, sheep, and goats for meat or milk; raise pigs and rabbits; and keep honey bees.

With illustrated, step-by-step illustrations and complete source lists, Betty Oppenheimer shows crafters how to easily create rolled, poured, molded, and dipped candles from wax to wick.

This inspiring book offers profiles of successful business owners who aim to enrich the health and well-being of others. Maine also includes advice for marketing a product, employing others, and much more.

Recipes for scented potpourri blends, fairy and herbal lore, poetry, seasonal stories, and gift ideas come together in this delightful book.

Home soapmaking is not only more economical than buying premade soaps—it's also a lot more fun! With The Everything Soapmaking Book, 2nd Edition, you will be making homemade soaps for yourself and your friends in no time!

This book takes a forward look at growing medicinal herbs that will positively affect not only the health of the gardener, but the earth as well.

This illustrated guide teaches readers how to plant, propagate, harvest, dry, freeze, store, and sell (both wholesale and retail) 64 of the most popular herbs.

Packed with practical advice on budgets, locations, business plans, bookkeeping, staffing, inventory, and pricing, this is the book that will transform your herb hobby into an herb business.

A delicate herb garden adds grace and style to your landscape and exciting flavor to your kitchen. Here are gardening tips on 75 herbs desireable for both cooking and crafts.

Acquire herbal healing wisdom with this guide to gathering, drying, storing, and blending 25 common herbs. Create your own all-natural home medicine cabinet filled with teas, tinctures, salves, syrups, and lozenges.

Learn every step of the soapmaking process from master soapmaker Susan Miller Cavitch. Once you have mastered her basic skills, go on to create personal soaps that suit your own tastes as well as those of your family and friends.

This practical compendium of herbal wisdom is a must-have for everyone. Promote vibrant health and radiant beauty, soothe everyday ailments, and ease stress and anxiety with 175 simple herbal recipes for everything from infant colic to dry skin to cold symptoms to insomnia.

Fire Light, Forest Garden, Gentlemen Farmer, Lemon Verbena, Oat and Wheat Bran--this is but a sampling of the thirty wonderful recipes you'll find in this guide to making soap. History, chemistry, equipment, plants, and oils--everything you need to know to create your own all-natural, handcrafted, herbal, aromatherapy, and floral soaps.

This guide to blending and brewing healthful herb teas includes easy-to-make recipes and anecdotes from several renowned herbalists. Readers will find teas for the head and throat, digestion, nervous system, lungs, bones and joints, skin, and more.

A Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin by Kathleen Brown

The story of Woginrich's hilarious, heartbreaking, soul-satisfying journey out of the world of mass-produced food, factory-stitched clothing, 300-channel cable television, and computer-centric desk job and into the world of homesteading.

Summon long-hidden memories and inspire your dreams by tucking a fragrant dream pillow into your pillowcase.

With common ingredients and easy-to-follow, step-by-step directions, you can produce transparent soaps that are milder, richer, and creamier than any commercial soap on the market.

Blend moisturizing, skin-nourishing, milk-based soaps using the specialized yet simple techniques Makela has developed during years of soapmaking and running her own soap business.

Get your baby off to a great start with the safest, gentlest practices and products available.