Genres : Non Fiction

Ways To Motivate Your Children Understanding motivation and proper ways to motivate kids is a key part of being a parent. Your job on a daily basis is to find motivational strategies that will help your children reach to be the best they can possibly be. Sometimes, this job seems difficult, yet if you can learn a little more about motivation, and what motivates your child specifically, you can succeed in this important aspect of parenting.

In Six Geese A-Laying: The Never-Ending Holiday Ducks, bestselling author Dr. Rochelle Brandon offers a compassionate, humorous, and practical guide for navigating the holiday season without losing yourself in the process. Known for her refreshing honesty and insightful advice in Pecked to Death by Ducks, Dr. Brandon returns to examine how holiday expectations and traditions can quickly spiral into overwhelming obligations, ultimately distracting us from what truly matters: joy, connection, and peace. The holiday season is meant to be a...

This comprehensive guide takes you step-by-step through the whole process of how to start and operate a successful organic plant growing business using containers. Chapters thoroughly cover such topics as: start-up, greenhouse options, certification/licenses/fees, botany basics, growing container plants, making compost, disease and pest management, demonstration gardens, marketing and merchandising, dealing with employees, and safety. Appendices include example activity logs and forms, instructions for making a soil-texture analysis, and even tips for creating a simple employee handbook. An extensive list...

Do you know ... how to grow great alfalfa and other forages? How can a healthy stand of alfalfa be established? What is most important in promoting vigorous forage growth - soil life, weed control, or balanced soil fertility? Is high potassium necessary for high quality? Does high tonnage automatically mean good feed for livestock? When should forages be cut - pre-bloom, first bloom, mid bloom? How can you measure forage quality? This book has these answers and more!

Is your relationship slipping away—and you're terrified it may be too late? He’s more distant. Conversations feel off. The connection that used to feel easy now feels fragile… and you’re scared one wrong move could push him further away. This book is different. It’s not about attraction, texting, or getting him to commit. It’s about what to do when you’re already in it—and it’s starting to break. Inside, you’ll learn: • why relationships fall into disconnection and tension • the hidden...

What if you could be great with money from a young age?But even if you could, what does it take?Do you have to be born with it? Or scrimp and save every penny, eating beans and rice throughout college? Or forego every large purchase and cut up all the credit cards you’ve ever owned?According to U.S. News data, students who borrow money for college will graduate owing $29,719 in student loan debt. So does this mean you shouldn’t borrow any...

“. . . watch with me as a grand and beautiful picture unfolds, of the interconnectedness of all things.” No endeavor engages so deeply, so personally with nature as farming, whether on a thousand acres or in the gardener’s window box. When farmers delve into nature’s mysteries they follow in the footsteps of the myriad curious natural scientists who came before. Join Athena (Teena) Tainio on a journey that illuminates the diverse wonders of the building blocks of life and...

Holistic practitioners have been using contact reflex diagnosis, muscle testing, and dowsing to improve human health for centuries. For lifelong alternative medicine practitioner Carrie Eastman, applying these methods to her goat herd was just common sense. All living things are made up of electrical energy. Learn how to harness this energy to work with your goats in a way that is convenient, inexpensive, and safe for your herd.The Energetic Goat provides step-by-step instruction on the basic techniques, including common variations,...

Since the middle of the last century, American farm policy has taken the nation into the dead end of industrial farm production. Farming, at its core a biological process, has been transformed into an industrial process, thus demolishing the economic and cultural values upon which the nation was founded. Along the way, small farms have been ridiculed and dismissed as inconsequential but now the seeds of a rural renaissance are being planted, not by these industrial behemoths, but by family-scale...

Ideas such as "crop and soil weatherproofing," the "row support system," and the "tillage commandments," exemplify the practicality of the soil/root maintenance program that serves as the foundation for Schriefer’s highly-successful "systems approach" farming. Schriefer was a pioneer in developing an awareness of the relation of tillage to soil fertility, focusing on three major soil basics — soil aeration, soil water, and soil decay. This book covers such topics as soil chemistry, plant and soil dynamics, above- and below-ground plant...