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Publisher of Rural Heritage Magazine ProductAn abbreviated list of our mostGuide popular items. For a complete list go to www.mischka.com/shop Toll Free Phone 1-877-647-2452 Fax: (319) 449-4148 Publisher of Rural Heritage Magazine www.mischka.com Order online at www.mischka.com Prices and availability subject to change www.ruralheritage.com1 THE MISCHKAS CALENDARS Publisher of Rural Heritage Magazine Publisher of Rural Heritage Magazine • They make excellent gifts! • Made in the USA • Outstanding photography The Mischka’s story • Practical design • Durable Nearly 40 years ago, Bob and Mary Mischka, with the help of their five boys, were raising 30 head of Percherons on their southeast 2019 Wall & Appointment Calendar Quanity prices: Wisconsin farm. When they couldn’t find a calendar to celebrate their 1: $16.95 love of draft horses, they made their own and started selling it out of 2: $30 ($15 ea) their home. 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Explore $58 ruralheritage. 2 yrs./12 issues com to see recent $113 articles and a wide variety of resources Digital for draft animal care Edition A digital version View a sample and self-sufficient issue at of the magazine living. www.ruralheritage.com is available for free to all print Recent Articles subscribers, just call or in Rural Heritage: email info@ Harvesting Hay with ruralheritage. a Scythe • Flint Corn com to get your Fundamentals • Do-It- login credentials. Yourself Grain Bin • Tillage You may also Techniques • Harnessing order the Wind Power • Ice Harvesting digital-only Building a Wheeled Plow version of the magazine for $19.99. 4 Call 1-877-647-2452 today! Order online at www.mischka.com 5 RURAL HERITAGE CONTRIBUTORS Publisher of Rural Heritage Magazine Publisher of Rural Heritage Magazine ny talented contributors to have ma . Rural Heritage is lucky Charlie Tennessen farms with his donkeys, Rosie, Sebastian and Cassie eritage m their books and videos is lucky to have ural H hem fro on his 4-acre Wisconsin farm, Anarchy Acres. He has written about heritage grains, R know t Get to many talented using a scythe and making harness for his donkeys. contributors. Get to know KITCHEN CHAOS: Recipes from a Wisconsin Homestead. NEW them from their by Charlie Tennessen. Tennessen shares some of the recipes he uses for the grains, vegetables and eggs he raises. The recipes books and DVDs are arranged by meals: Breakfast through dinner, snacks and breads. Also includes a list of resources for market gardening, Ralph Rice farms with his team of Percherons on his 40-acre diversified farm in homesteading and sustainable agriculture. Beautiful, full color northeast Ohio, Riceland Meadows. His operation includes pigs, chickens, sheep, spelt, photographs. 77 pages. 8 x 10 inches. Softcover. hay, and a maple syruping operation. Item #1701. $16.95 CULTIVATING MEMORIES. by Ralph J. Rice. Farmer/writer Ralph ROSIE’S NEW HARNESS. by Charlie Tennessen; illustrated Chloé J. Rice shares his experiences of farming both in childhood and as Wright. Rosie the donkey was concerned. Her harness was an adult. His essays range from musings on the deeper meanings missing for days. The Friendly Farmer took her teammates to of farming and rural life, to hilarious anecdotes about his own plow without her! What happened to the harness? Was she mishaps on the farm. 24 black and white illustrations by artist still part of the team? The first in a series of three. Kindergarten Bethany Caskey. 240 pages. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Softcover. through 3rd grade. 32 pages 8 x 10 inches. Softcover. Item #1596. $14.95 Item #1671. $14.95 POPCORN DAY. by Charlie Tennessen; illustrated by Chloe Wright. RICELAND MEADOWS. DVD. RFD compilation. Two The second in a series of children’s books featuring Charlie’s episodes featuring Ralph Rice and his Ohio draft horse donkeys. With Sebastion not feeling well, Cassie must learn how farm. Ralph takes Percherons into the woods to collect to pull the popcorn cart and wait patiently in the field while maple sap and skid logs and shows how to be profitable the corn is harvested. But donkeys don’t like to be alone, and on a small, mixed-power diversified farm. 50 minues. the rustling cornstalks frighten her. Will she be able to save the Item #1607D. $24.95 popcorn harvest? Beautiful, whimsical, full color illustrations. 32 pages. 8 x 10 inches. Soft cover. Item #1702. $14.95 NEW RICELAND MEADOWS FARM PLAN. DVD.RFD compilation. Three episodes filmed at Ralph Rice’s farm in Ohio. (2018) Episode HAYSTACK RUMORS. by Charlie Tennessen; illustrated Chloé I Ralph lays out his diversified farm to enhance efficiency and NEW Wright. There’s a rumor going around ... Children are saying environmental safety. Episode 2 Ralph explains more about how he that Sebastian is a biter. Can a brave girl discover the truth? The set up his diversified farm to maximize efficiency. Episode 3 Ralph third installment of Charlie’s delightful children’s series features demonstrates logging his woodlot and Stacy Lyn Harris plants a Sebastian the donkey. Beautiful illustrations by Chloé Wright. cucumber trellis and makes a salad. 70 minutes 40 pages. 8 x 10 inches. Soft cover. Softcover. NEW Item #1646. $29.95 Item #1733. $14.95 More children’s books on Page 10 6 Call 1-877-647-2452 today! Order online at www.mischka.com 7 BOOKS BOOKS Publisher of Rural Heritage Magazine Publisher of Rural Heritage Magazine HANDY GUIDES TO COUNTRY WISDOM Compact books that pack a lot of information Affordable, essential resources ELECTRIC FENCING. by Ann Larkin Hansen. How to Choose, Build and BUILDING & USING COLD FRAMES. by Charles Siegchrist. A lot of Maintain the Best Fence for Your Plants and Animals. Practical advice for information packed into a few pages! Selecting a site, materials, choosing the right fencing for your needs, planning and installing your preparations, assembly, hotbeds, through the seasons, transplants, fence and performing ongoing testing and maintenance. Black and greens into winter, future plans and much more. white illustrations. 92 pages. 5 x 7 inches. Soft cover. Item 1716. $9.95 Black and white illustrations. 32 pages. 5.5 x 8 inches. Staple bound softcover. Item 1721. $3.95 MANAGING MANURE. by Mark Kopecky. How to Store, Compost and GRAFTING FRUIT TREES. by Larry Southwick. The author offers an Use Organic Livestock Wastes. Close the nutrient cycle in your small farm overview of one of the oldest horticultural practices -- grafting, or garden by using manure to replenish the soil. Kopecky, an organic promising that “grafting and budding are not difficult.” dairy farmer and soil scientist, guides you through the safe and effective Topics covered include: tools, wound dressing, why graft?, types of storage, composting and spreading of manure -- an age-old solution to grafts, budding and 10 essentials of successful grafting and budding. the modern problems of waste disposal and chemical fertilizers. Black & Black and white illustrations. white illustrations. 109 pages. 5 x 7 inches. Softcover. Item 1717. $9.95 32 pages. 5.5 x 8 inches. Staple bound softcover. Item 1722 $3.95 MAINTAINING SMALL FARM EQUIPMENT. by Steve & Ann Larkin IMPROVING YOUR SOIL. by Stu Campbell. “The key to understanding Hansen. How to Keep Tractors and Implements Running Well. To keep your garden soil is to understand where it came from, what it is and farm equipment running smoothly, you need good maintenance, the what it is becoming.” Campbell’s handy guide starts with explaining the ability to spot and diagnose problems before they get out of hand components and life cycle of soil and moves onto how to improve it ... and the tools and knowledge to make basic repairs. Black and white soil testing, balancing acidity and alkalinity, nutrients, amendments and illustrations. 108 pages. 5 x 7 inches. Softcover. Item 1718. $9.95. difficult soils.