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WILLOW RUN FARM, the initial book in a trilogy, records the author's experience of growing up on a working farm in the rural Midwest during the Great Depression. In her Pulitzer Prize-winner, "The Shipping News," E. Annie Proulx states: "What don't happen is also news." Marcella Grenga candidly lays down vignettes from rural life and scenes from a one-room schoolhouse. The tone spans from the undercurrent of love in the Woolf family to the quiet but often brutal realities of farm life. The toil on the farm and antics in the one-room school serve as backdrops for this warm, wise-cracking,...

Illustrated. Step-by-step manual outlines chronology of author's quest-- after that first sweet sip in 2003-- to purify & drink rainwater at home. Demonstrates sustainable off-the-grid dual rainwater capture system comprised of rain-barrel pods for watering plants vs. barrels earmarked for drinking. System uses simple, accessible materials. List of indoor/outdoor rainwater uses. Describes Berkey Light Black Berkey system, filtration, UV-disinfection & purification stages. Notable/curious facts about rainwater. Snapshot of a model, green community. Incl. Materials, Troubleshooting & Resources...

"If ya done it, it ain't braggin'." -- Will ROGERS. "XLU3" means Extreme Low Urban Utility Usage. The author lays down step-by-step how an average $72.94 cost of all utility bills was accomplished for 10 years running (water, natural gas, electric, sewage and trash) in a 2,103 sq.ft. home without solar panels. This humble, pragmatic book is jammed with sustainable ideas, simple, easy, effective-- quickly demonstrating how the author cut household utility bills in HALF, then it got so exciting the bills got cut in half again using frugalities & common sense applications. This is... HOW WE DONE...