Download or read book Zen and the Art of Raising Chickens written by Clea Edelblute and published by Ivy Books. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clea Danaan explores the entertaining, rewarding, and enlightening art of raising chickens in an urban or suburban backyard. The text examines why keeping chickens has become so popular, as it addresses environmental issues, the locovore movement, and a shift in the way we want to live.
Download or read book The Way of the Hen written by Clea Danaan and published by Globe Pequot. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How raising chickens can help us reconnect with the simpler joys of life.
Download or read book Zen and the Art of Vampires written by Katie MacAlister and published by Keeper Shelf Books. This book was released on 2024-11-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White picket fences can be dangerous to vampires...but the right woman can be worth even the direst of consequences... Pia Thomason doesn’t have a typical life, but she wants one. The husband, the kids, the house in the suburbs…with her fortieth birthday looming, she decides to do somethingdrastic, and joins a singles’ tour through romantic Europe. But the few men on the trip leave much to be desired—unlike the two men Pia sees crossing a square in an Icelandic town. Sexy as sin, mysterious, and oh, so dangerous...just the sight of them puts her in a dither. But when devastating circumstances turn her into their most hated enemy, Pia knows one thing for certain: where vampires are concerned, love isn’t the only thing at stake. Note: this is the first book in the Zorya Dark Ones Novels sub-series.
Download or read book Zen the Path of Mindful Parenting written by Clea Danaan and published by Leaping Hare Press. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all strive so hard to be perfect parents, we do whatever it takes to assure our children's happiness and safety and that they will grow up to be their best selves. Unfortunately our striving is making us crazy. How can we raise happy, healthy children while staying happy and healthy ourselves? This book is not intended as another manual, the last thing you need is another expert telling you the 'right' way to do it. Clea Danaan shows how, by using the practices and techniques of mindfulness, you can achieve a calmer and clearer approach to parenting, which will help you to raise more balanced and healthy kids.
Download or read book Mindfulness in Drawing written by Wendy Ann Greenhalgh and published by Mindfulness series. This book was released on 2023-06-20 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mindfulness in Drawing explores how the simple act of putting pen to paper creates a deeper connection between ourselves and the world around us. Through mindful creative exercises, personal anecdote and a fresh outlook on perception, flow and instinct, this book reveals how doodlers and artists at any level in their craft can discover the mindful joys of drawing.
Download or read book Mindfulness the Art of Managing Anger written by Mike Fisher and published by Leaping Hare Press. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mindfulness & the Art of Managing Anger explores the powerful emotion of toxic anger - what it is, why we experience it and how we can learn to control its destructive power through the very nature of mindfulness. Fusing Western and Buddhist thought, therapeutic tools, specific meditative practices and frank personal anecdotes, this book reveals how we can all clear the red mist for peaceful wellbeing.
Download or read book An Evocative Autoethnography of Living Alongside Myalgic Encephalomyelitis ME written by Orlagh Farrell Delaney and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking book explores and explains the day-to-day realities of living long-term with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). ME is an acquired complex disorder characterised by a variety of symptoms affecting multiple systems of the body. Marked fatigue and weakness, sickness, cognitive dysfunction and symptom flare-up can follow any physical or cognitive exertion. It is estimated that there are 17-24 million sufferers worldwide. The author has lived with moderately severe ME for the last 18 years. Utilising autoethnography as a methodology and drawing on multidisciplinary social science theory, the book tells the story of the author’s own lived experiences of the illness, and how she sought to reimagine a ‘self’ or a life living alongside the illness, that could still be considered a ‘good life’. This autoethnographic book is beautifully and evocatively written. It is a work of scholarship that will be highly accessible to academic and other readers. It is also a comprehensive introduction to autoethnography as a methodology, but it is much more. The images and poetry complement the narrative discussion, and are exemplary as part of an approach that integrates creative work with academic argument. It illuminates the struggles of living with ME and how there can be sanctuary.
Download or read book Llewellyn s 2016 Herbal Almanac written by Llewellyn and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultivate Good Health With Nature’s Versatile Herbs Now in its 16th year and better than ever, Llewellyn’s Herbal Almanac features dozens of articles that explore the many uses of herbs. From gardening, cooking, and crafts to health, beauty, and lore, this treasury of innovative herbal ideas will improve your life through the power of nature’s helpful plants. Discover friendly fungi for the herbalist, permaculture and the herb garden, herb perfumes, misunderstood mint, a salute to spuds, and inspiration for blackberrying. You’ll even find information on dream gardens and shade gardens. From herbal pickling to herbs and trees of the coniferous forest, this practical almanac is your gateway to the herbal kingdom. Explore herbal remedies for insomnia and anxiety Create natural insect repellant Learn the secrets of wildcrafting with weeds Make herbal balms, salves, and love charms Take inventory of the herb cupboard Use herbs to improve the mind Reap the benefits of flower essences
Download or read book Hen and the Art of Chicken Maintenance written by Martin Gurdon and published by Globe Pequot. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Herriot meets Bill Bryson in this hilarious account of one mans relationship Z99 his chickens
Download or read book The Healing Gods written by Candy Gunther Brown and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question typically asked about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is whether it works. However, an issue of equal or greater significance is why it is supposed to work. The Healing Gods: Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Christian America explains how and why CAM entered the American biomedical mainstream and won cultural acceptance, even among evangelical and other theologically conservative Christians, despite its ties to non-Christian religions and the lack of scientific evidence of its efficacy and safety. Before the 1960s, most of the practices Candy Gunther Brown considers-yoga, chiropractic, acupuncture, Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, meditation, martial arts, homeopathy, anticancer diets-were dismissed as medically and religiously questionable. These once-suspect health practices gained approval as they were re-categorized as non-religious (though generically spiritual) health-care, fitness, or scientific techniques. Although CAM claims are similar to religious claims, CAM gained cultural legitimacy because people interpret it as science instead of religion. Holistic health care raises ethical and legal questions of informed consent, consumer protection, and religious establishment at the center of biomedical ethics, tort law, and constitutional law. The Healing Gods confronts these issues, getting to the heart of values such as personal autonomy, self-determination, religious equality, and religious voluntarism.
Download or read book Lila written by Robert Pirsig and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bestselling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant and passionate journey as mysterious and compelling as his first life-changing work. Instead of a motorcycle, a sailboat carries his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus down the Hudson River as winter closes in. Along the way he picks up a most unlikely traveling companion: a woman named Lila who in her desperate sexuality, hostility, and oncoming madness threatens to disrupt his life. In Lila Robert M. Pirsig has crafted a unique work of adventure and ideas that examines the essential issues of the nineties as his previous classic did the seventies.
Download or read book The Forest Garden Greenhouse written by Jerome Osentowski and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a revolutionary new "Climate Battery" design for near-net-zero heating and cooling By the turn of the nineteenth century, thousands of acres of glass houses surrounded large American cities, becoming a commonplace symbol of the market garden and nursery trades. But the possibilities of the indoor garden to transform our homes and our lives remain largely unrealized. In this groundbreaking book, Jerome Osentowski, one of North America's most accomplished permaculture designers, presents a wholly new approach to a very old horticultural subject. In The Forest Garden Greenhouse, he shows how bringing the forest garden indoors is not only possible, but doable on unlikely terrain and in cold climates, using near-net-zero technology. Different from other books on greenhouse design and management, this book advocates for an indoor agriculture using permaculture design concepts--integration, multi-functions, perennials, and polycultures--that take season extension into new and important territory. Osentowski, director and founder of Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute (CRMPI), farms at 7,200 feet on a steep, rocky hillside in Colorado, incorporating deep, holistic permaculture design with practical common sense. It is at this site, high on a mountaintop, where Osentowski (along with architect and design partner Michael Thompson) has been designing and building revolutionary greenhouses that utilize passive and active solar technology via what they call the "climate battery"--a subterranean air-circulation system that takes the hot, moist, ambient air from the greenhouse during the day, stores it in the soil, and discharges it at night--that can offer tropical and Mediterranean climates at similarly high altitudes and in cold climates (and everywhere else). Osentowski's greenhouse designs, which can range from the backyard homesteader to commercial greenhouses, are completely ecological and use a simple design that traps hot and cold air and regulates it for best possible use. The book is part case study of the amazing greenhouses at CRMPI and part how-to primer for anyone interested in a more integrated model for growing food and medicine in a greenhouse. With detailed design drawings, photos, and profiles of successful greenhouse projects on all scales, this inspirational manual will considerably change the conversation about greenhouse design.
Download or read book Mindfulness for Unravelling Anxiety written by Richard Gilpin and published by Leaping Hare Press. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anxiety is a state many of us know only too well and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is on the global increase too. Mindfulness for Unravelling Anxiety helps loosen the knots and tangles of anxiety and explores the ways we can break their stifling bonds through better understanding of the root of the problem - the mind. Richard Gilpin shares frank personal anecdotes and therapeutic insights, revealing how mindfulness can create a path for us through anxiety. With wisdom and clarity, he guides us through the transformative practice of mindfulness meditation.
Download or read book Brave Old World written by Tom Hodgkinson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meditation on why life has been a dreadful mistake ever since the Reformation brought us paid jobs and the work ethic.
Download or read book Getting Laid written by Barb Webb and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable living boasts no boundaries. You don’t need massive amounts of acreage or even a fenced-in backyard. We may not be 100 percent sustainable in our lifestyle, but we can become better in-tune with our environment and conscientious of our actions. Like all aspects of life, it’s about balance, finding ways to live a greener, cleaner life within the parameters of your current lifestyle. Top blogger for country living, Rural Mom, shows us the (actually very easy) way to live a sustainable lifestyle without making ourselves crazy in the process. Why does even Jennifer Aniston raise chickens in the Hollywood Hills? Easy answer, it is extremely cool to raise you own hens. Eat the organic eggs and lie back on feather beds from your own brood. And what about you? Author Barb Webb believes there's a farm girl in all of us and she helps you find yours! What initially drew you to the idea of raising chickens, organic gardening and incorporating more sustainable living practices into your lifestyle? Are you interested in saving money, eating a more healthy diet, being on trend, going more “green,” or saving the planet one plant at a time? Whatever the reason, the good new is all of the above motivators are real, tangible end-results of sustainable living. SUSTAINABLE LIVING IS… a) reducing your carbon footprint b) eating organic and “living off the land” c) living in harmony with the earth d) using resources efficiently and investing in renewable resources e) creating a better future for the next generation f) protecting and nurturing our natural resources g) eliminating waste and recycling h) actively pursuing a balanced and simplistic lifestyle i) spending money and resources in a frugal way j) our economy, social structure and natural environment working in agreement for the betterment of the world Sustainable living has many definitions and interpretations that have developed over time. In its basic definition, the Merriam Webster Dictionary defines sustainable as “able to be used without being completely used up or destroyed,” and living as “full of life or vigor.” In a nutshell – as sustainable living agents, we are ultimately defenders, maintainers and supporter of life! Our mission is of the utmost importance to ourselves, our environment and our future generations. Our mission is also easy. In fact, it takes less than five minutes to incorporate one sustainable living practice into your life right now but the effect of your action may have an ever-lasting positive impact for the world.
Download or read book Bootstrapper written by Mardi Jo Link and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-06-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poignant, irreverent, and hilarious: a memoir about survival and self-discovery, by an indomitable woman who never loses sight of what matters most. It’s the summer of 2005, and Mardi Jo Link’s dream of living the simple life has unraveled into debt, heartbreak, and perpetually ragged cuticles. She and her husband of nineteen years have just called it quits, leaving her with serious cash-flow problems and a looming divorce. More broke than ever, Link makes a seemingly impossible resolution: to hang on to her century-old farmhouse in northern Michigan and continue to raise her three boys on well water and wood chopping and dirt. Armed with an unfailing sense of humor and three resolute accomplices, Link confronts blizzards and foxes, learns about Zen divorce and the best way to butcher a hog, dominates a zucchini-growing contest and wins a year’s supply of local bread, masters the art of bargain cooking, wrangles rampaging poultry, and withstands any blow to her pride in order to preserve the life she wants. With an infectious optimism that would put Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm to shame and a deep appreciation of the natural world, Link tells the story of how, over the course of one long year, she holds on to her sons, saves the farm from foreclosure, and finds her way back to a life of richness and meaning on the land she loves. This ebook edition includes a Reading Group Guide.
Download or read book Gwen the Rescue Hen written by Leslie Crawford and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gwen has spent her whole life in a big egg-laying hen house, so she knows very little about what chickens can do (besides lay eggs, of course). A fateful tornado turns her world upside-down and sideways, landing her in a strange new place that's nothing like the hen house. Using her wits and chicken superpowers, Gwen dodges danger at every turn until she finds safety and friendship with a boy named Mateo. Together they discover how extraordinary an ordinary chicken really is. The book includes a bonus section called "More About Chickens," where curious readers can learn that chickens have extraordinary eyesight, a complex language of 24 sounds, and are descended from dinosaurs, among other fun facts. Gwen the Rescue Hen is the second children's book in Stone Pier Press's Farm Animal Rescue Series, perfect for ages 4 to 7. The first book, Sprig the Rescue Pig, was released in the Spring of 2018.
