Want to do your part in helping your local pollinators flourish? Pollinator Friendly Gardening makes it easy.

Are you interested in growing a naturally healthy garden? How about making sure your local environment helps bees, butterflies, and birds survive and thrive? If you are a beekeeper, are you looking for the ideal plants to keep your colony happy?

Pollinators such as monarch butterflies and bees are under threat, and more and more gardeners want to do all they can to create a hospitable space for them. That's where Pollinator Friendly Gardening comes in. It identifies the most visible and beloved pollinators: bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds, as well as some more unlikely candidates such as ants, wasps, and beetles. It then explains the intriguing synergy between plants and pollinators. This vital information makes it a unique sourcebook to share the ways that anyone can make a yard a more friendly place for pollinators.

Plant selection, hardscape choices, habitat building (both natural and manmade), and growing practices that give pollinators their best chance in the garden are all covered in detail. Plant lists organized by category, helpful tips, and expert spotlights make it a fun and easy book to read too.

Mother Earth News offers expert advice for self-sufficient living in the new and updated seventh edition of Collector Series: Modern Homesteading. This unique guide has over 40 articles covering suburban farming, self-reliance, livestock and poultry, agroforestry, gardening, food and recipes, and more.

Mother Earth News aims to provide information and inspiration to help you live more simply, securely, and sustainably. Packed with timeless tips, beautiful photographs, and helpful charts, this collector series guide has more than enough information to get you thriving with your homestead. Whether you're just starting out or you've lived your whole life with your hands in the soil, you'll find some helpful information to live a modern yet simple life on the homestead.

Selections from the 140-page softcover book include:

• Certified Naturally Grown, A Seal of Approval for Beekeepers and Mushroom Growers: This national standard of excellence for apiaries and fungi farms endorses hives and products free of pesticides and genetic modification.
• Reusable Food Wraps: These eco-friendly fabric food wraps are the bee's knees, and you can choose any color or print you like when you make them yourself. 
• 6 Ways to Practice Climate Farming: Turn your garden into a carbon-guzzling, food-growing oasis.
• Naturally Sweet Recipes: Enhance the flavor of the season with these honey and maple syrup dishes.
• Build a Garden Fence on a Budget: Add beauty and functionality to your growing space with a durable wooden fence that won't break the bank.
• Build an Indoor Grow Light Table: Readers share their tips for starting seeds indoors.
• Keep Shetland Sheep: Small, hardy, and colorful, Shetland sheep are a natural choice for shepherds and fiber artists alike. 
• Animals on the Farm, A Holistic Approach: Small farmers across the globe are developing creative ways of integrating livestock into their agricultural operations. 
• And more!

In daily life, we can take control of the resources and services we depend on. Electricity and energy don’t have to come off the public utility grid—alternatives abound in solar, wind, and water-generated power. Design decisions can drastically affect power consumption, and bio-diesel and alternative fuels can help break the oil habit.

Dave Black describes alternatives for eco-pimping your home and lifestyle for independence, economy, and a more integrated way of life. Equally valuable for the urban dweller vaguely concerned about the size of his or her carbon footprint and the rural self-sufficiency enthusiast, Living Off the Grid can help anyone take control of his or her life and way of living.