The Patterns Method of Plant Identification

An Herbal Field Guide to Plant Families of North America

by Thomas J. Elpel

Excellent, educational and insightful look at the plant world through its interrelations and common qualities.

Both a good introduction and long term reference.

Tom is a longtime friend and colleague who has published more books, videos and games than most anyone else in our community, from ancestral skills to plants to natural building to examining our modern existence.

235 pages, with color illustrations
8.5” x 11” x .5”

list price $30

(HOPS Press)

by Thomas J Elpel
& Kris Reed

Incredibly practical and comprehensive guide to wild foods, which is at the same time very accessible. All of this makes it the book you want to have with you out in the field.

Tom is a longtime friend and colleague who has published more books, videos and games than most anyone else in our community, from ancestral skills to plants to natural building to examining our modern existence.

Met Kris Reed at an ancestral skills gathering several years ago and was delighted to find that he had collaborated with Tom to create this most recent title.

338 pages in full color
6” x 9” x .75”

list price $30

(HOPS Press)

Wilderness Survival and Primitive Living Skills

by Thomas J. Elpel

Solid overview of basic outdoor skills intermixed with philosophy and with many projects and concepts outlined in this treatise which are not often found elsewhere.

Tom is a longtime friend and colleague who has published more books, videos and games than most anyone else in our community, from ancestral skills to plants to natural building to examining our modern existence.

151 pp.
8.5" x 11" x .5”

$24.00 (20% DISCOUNT from $30.00 list price)

(HOPS Press)

A Case for Sustainable Meat Production

The Manifesto of Environmental Lawyer and Vegetarian Turned Cattle Rancher

by Nicolette Hahn Niman

As the effects of large scale animal production using factory farming techniques are becoming more and more evident, alternatives are also being more widely discussed. Adopting either a vegan or vegetarian diet are among the two “solutions” most widely touted; however a third and equally important option is raising animals in a small scale sustainable fashion.

Unfortunately, the essential role that livestock plays in small-scale farming, homesteading, and sustainable land management are largely ignored by “experts” looking at the problem from an industrial perspective and the ways that raising animal can help in the larger scale are often dismissed out of hand.

This book helps describe in clear and moving language many of these important points to consider.

274 pages
6” x 9” x .75”

list price $19.95
(slightly worn copy on sale for $15.00)

(Chelsea Green Publishing)