High Desert Yards and Gardens
 The high desert region comprising New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Texas offers a challenge to gardeners and landscapers. But pleasing and rewarding gardens and lawns can be achieved with a proper understanding of the soil, climate, and special needs ... [... more]
$16.95
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Best Plants for New Mexico Gardens and Landscapes: Keyed ...
New Mexico gardeners have long needed this book--a careful guide to the trees, shrubs, ground covers, and smaller plants that thrive in the state's many life zones and climates. In a state where the altitude varies from 3,000 feet above sea level at ... [... more]
$24.95
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A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm
Unless you're a vampire, you know that garlic is a critical element in good eating. For most people, this knowledge comes from happy experience with garlic-laced cuisines (and what notable culinary tradition is without it?), not book learning, and not ... [... more]
$17.95
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The Owner-Built Adobe House
First published in 1980, this book remains a useful guide that will help you build your own adobe house almost anywhere in the country, even in areas not usually considered “adobe country.” Duane Newcomb takes you through every step of the process, from ... [... more]
$21.95
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Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico
Irrigation ditches are the lifelines of agriculture and daily life in rural New Mexico. This award-winning account of the author’s experience as a mayordomo, or ditch boss, is the first record of the life of an acequia by a community participant. [... more]
$17.95
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Acequia Culture: Water, Land, and Community in the Southwest
Conflicts between Hispanic farmers and developers made for compelling reading in The Milagro Beanfield War, the famous novel of life in a northern New Mexico village in which tradition triumphs over modernity. But as cities grow and industries expand, ... [... more]
$22.95
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Ask the Bugman: Environmentally Safe Ways to Control ...
You open the kitchen cabinet, reach for the jar of peanut butter, and there on its top are mice droppings. What’s the safest means to be rid of the mice? In Ask the Bugman, Board Certified Entomologist Richard Fagerlund offers advice on pest control ... [... more]
$12.95
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Hummingbirds of North America: Attracting, Feeding, and ...
"Ace photographer Dan True conveys his passion for these buzzing aeronauts by describing all 16 species of North American hummers, listing their favorite flowers and going into detail about their habits, courtship, and distribution. He then tells us ... [... more]
$12.95
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Foods of the Maya: A Taste of the Yucatán
Pompano tamales. Shrimp enchiladas. Candied sweet papaya. These are some of the foods whose recipes reside in the pages of Nancy and Jeffrey Gerlach’s Foods of the Maya. The authors have spent years traveling throughout Mexico, familiarizing themselves ... [... more]
$14.95
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Que vivan los tamales!: Food and the Making of Mexican ...
Connections between what people eat and who they are--between cuisine and identity--reach deep into Mexican history, beginning with pre-Columbian inhabitants offering sacrifices of human flesh to maize gods in hope of securing plentiful crops. This ... [... more]
$23.95
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Mexican Cookbook
This popular cookbook has sold more copies than any other native cookbook ever printed in the Southwest. First published in 1934, it contains recipes for the foods that are now served in trendy restaurants nationwide—enchiladas, chile rellenos, and carne ... [... more]
$10.95
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Swept Under the Rug: A Hidden History of Navajo Weaving ...
Collected and highly valued all over the world, Navajo weaving has been the subject of many aesthetic and historic studies. Grounded in archival research and cultural and economic approaches, this new book situates Navajo weavers within the economic ... [... more]
$32.95
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