The medieval English ballad of John Barleycorn, who after being ploughed under the ground grows up again in the spring to be harvested and ultimately turned into homebrewed ale.

Product Description: Includes a paperback and cassette tape. A complete instructional book for the mountain dulcimer by this noted teacher and performer. Lorraine's expertise is unmatched in the dulcimer community, and she has distilled her 20 years of playing and ten years of teaching into this primer, text, and mini-thesis...read more

Product Description: Book by Azarian, Mary

An alphabet book of woodcuts featuring activities and objects associated with New England farm life, from Apple, Barn, Cow through aX, Yawn, Zinnia.

Shares traditional recipes for fruit, grains, vegetables, meat, game, and desserts, and describes the author's life growing up on an Indiana farm during the thirties

Product Description: Book by Hayford, James

A man who lives simply by the sea explores the shore each day for its treasures which ease and enrich his life, and in the evening creates gifts which he gives to the sea in return.

Product Description: Clean solid copy.

Describes Indiana farm life during the thirties, and gathers traditional recipes for breads, soups, salads, meat, chicken, vegetables, desserts, and holiday meals

In celebration of the sheep of Ireland, a playful read-aloud poem is told in four parts--from the varied perspectives of the shearer, the spinners, the weavers, and the knitters--and illustrated with stunning hand-colored woodcuts.

Because she's looking for something special, the great barn cat notices but shows no interest in the activities of the animals which can be counted around her

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Product Description: Full of sage advice from recognized herbalists around the country, Llewellyn’s Herbal Almanac  explains how you can benefit from nature’s most versatile plants. Learn how herbs can boost your immune system,used to create craft items, add zest to your food, nourish your skin, and bring some natural magic into your life...read more

Ever since (and well before) Godine published her first book, A Farmer's Alphabet in 1981, Mary Azarian has been hard at work cutting soft pine in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. Last year she was awarded what she richly deserves: the Caldecott Medal. This retrospective volume is not intended to illustrate a particular story, but to display the full range of her abilities, and it is arranged (as seems logical to us) according to the seasons she celebrates in her art. In all, we have reproduced fifty of her hand-colored woodcuts in full color and an equal number in black and white. The book is large format because that is the way she works and that's what does her work justice. The text, written by her friend Lilias Hart, discusses not only her work, but also what life is like in the rigorous reaches of Northern Vermont.It would be unfortunate if Mary's acheivement was relegated to the realm of "illustration." She is not an "illustrator" but an artist who works in wood, in a technique that has been all but forgotten by modern practitioners. She does it as well as anyone of her generation, and this ambitious, oversize book will show the full amplitude and genius of her work.

Because she's looking for something special, the great barn cat notices but shows no interest in the activities of the animals which can be counted around her.

A lunar guide describes the folkloric names of twelve moons according to Native American tradition and showcases their defining characteristics in short verse and beautifully detailed hand-colored woodcuts.

Tells how the infant Prince Hakon is rescued by men fiercely loyal to his dead father, who ski across the rugged mountains in blizzard conditions to save him from his enemies, the Baglers. Reprint.

Louisa May Alcott finds a friend in her elder neighbor, Henry David Thoreau, and learns from him how to capture one's thoughts and find one's own inspirations on paper, in a charming picture book set in nineteenth-century Massachusetts.

Filled with stunning woodcut illustrations, a fascinating picture book captures life on the farm throughout the year, from chores such as chopping wood in the fall and weeding in the summer, to fun activities such as night-swimming in the pond in the summer and skiing off the barn roof in the winter. Reprint.

Product Description: In her first book since Where the Deer Were, Kate Barnes probes and penetrates more deeply and more profoundly into her special world of friendships, of rural Maine, of seasons, and of lives slowly, inexorably coming to an end. This selection of her strongest work from the past decade displays a poet at the height of her power compassionate, compelling, and possessed of an ear for words, images, and rhythms that is almost pitch perfect...read more

When Miss Bridie leaves her home to emigrate to the New World, she leaves behind all she has ever known to take a chance on a better future, but the transition isn't simple and Miss Bridie must stay committed in order to see her dreams finally come to fruition.

Product Description: Discover how this transitional season can reveal both the abundance and the limitations of our everyday lives.Autumn, with all its traditional images of colorful trees, frost-covered pumpkins, and piles of wood stored up against winter's cold, can be a season filled with anticipation...read more

Take a journey back in time to an era of simplicity where no telephones or electricity exists in order to experience the Christmas celebrations of one family in a rural town where sleigh rides, family stories, and moonlight skating on an ice pond are cherished elements of their special holiday tradition.

Bringing the wonders of gardening to life, a charming alphabet book details the many refreshing and rejuvenating qualities of gardens and depicts flowers, vegetables, and trees with beautiful woodcuts. Reprint.

All throughout the year, everyone in town can depend on Darrell to stop by and lend a hand in any of their many projects, but when he is called out to plow a steep driveway on a snowy afternoon and gets stuck far from home in the middle of a storm, the neighbors quickly jump into action to show their appreciation for their devoted friend.