Win 3 Seasonal Titles: Pumpkins, Cider and Apples
From Storey Publishing

Hilltown Families and Storey Publishing have partnered up to offer a chance to win three seasonal titles:

• The Perfect Pumpkin: Growing, Cooking, Carving by Gail Damerow
• Cider: Making, Using & Enjoying Sweet & Hard Cider (3rd Ed.) by Annie Proulx and Lew Nichols
• Apple Cookbook by Olwen Woodier

Find out how to enter to win below.

STOREY PUBLISHING

Storey Publishing is a local publisher based out of North Adams, MA.  They have been publishing wonderful how-to books on do-it-yourself titles that are down-to-earth and always inspiring for over 25 years!  Topics range from gardening, cooking, crafts, nature science, animal care, farming, traditional skills and home improvement.

Over the years my personal library has included many of their titles that are now dog-eared and well worn from reading and referencing; including: Rosemary Gladstar’s Family Herbal, Gail Damerow’s Barnyard in Your Backyard, Mike & Nancy Bubel’s Root Cellering and Phyliss Hobson’s Making & Using Dried Foods.  All great titles I’ve referenced either for family minor illnesses, the best way to raise our small backyard flock of chickens, how to put up onions and cabbage from the farmer’s market for the winter, and advice on dehydrating culinary herbs and locally picked apples. Discover their upcoming releases here.  Each title is packed with fresh new ideas about gardening, horses, cooking, crafts, livestock, building, and more!

ABOUT THE TITLES

• THE PERFECT PUMPKIN
  Gail Damerow has written a great book for harvesting and growing nearly 100 varieties of pumpkins!  I had no idea there were that than many!  Her book, The Perfect Pumpkin: Growing, Cooking, Carving, includes advise on how to grow and harvest pumpkins (including those gigantic ones we see at the county fairs!), step-by-step craft and carving projects, delectable recipes (like pumpkin brioche and pumpkin ale!) and even tips one how to put up pumpkin for winter storage.
• CIDER: MAKING, USING & ENJOYING SWEET & HARD CIDER
  How do you make great cider? All you need is an apple. And a few other things … Annie Proulx and Lew Nichols offer thorough coverage of every step of cider making, from choosing and planting the best apple varieties to enjoying the finished product in their book Cider: Making, Using & Enjoying Sweet & Hard Cider. Recipes include sweet and hard ciders, sparkling cider blends, and cider-based foods. In this book you’ll also find directions on how to build a working apple press, and bits of history and lore.
• APPLE COOKBOOK
  Want to turn your apples into gourmet cooked dishes to accompany a glass of hard cider? Olwen Woodier offers over 140 apple recipes for to serve up apples for breakfast, lunch and dinner in her book, Apple Cookbook. She also offers descriptions of the general characteristics of many popular and heirloom varieties of apples along with a diagram that charts their best uses.

HOW TO WIN

Your chance to win these three seasonal titles from Storey Publishing is as easy as 1-2-3 (4)!  To win simply:

1. POST A COMMENT BELOW (one entry per household) and be sure to tell us your
2. FULL NAME and where you
3. LIVE (TOWN/STATE) You must include your town and state to be eligible.
4. ACCURATE EMAIL (we never share your email address).
5. We’ll randomly draw a winner and will share the results below.
   

IT’S THAT SIMPLE! — Deadline is Monday, 10/21/09 @ 7pm (EST).

To check out other fine titles by Storey Publishing, visit them on-line at www.storey.com.