Raising Animals by the Moon: Practical Advice on Breeding, Birthing, Weaning, and Raising Animals in Harmony with Nature [Paperback]

Louise Riotte (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1999

Louise Riotte has taught thousands of gardeners how to plant and harvest in harmony with the astrological calendar. Now she offers her expertise to help improve the health and well-being of your domestic and farm animals. In her endearing, conversational style, Riotte provides practical animal-care advice as she explains the astrological calendar sign by sign. Learn how to use seasonal changes to increase the milk production of your goats and cows, improve your hens' laying, judge when to shear a sheep, and properly time your animals' breeding. Her guide to the therapeutic properties of herbs will help you keep your animals healthy throughout their lives. "Raising Animals by the Moon" is a delightful blend of whimsy and hard-working, practical knowledge that can come only from Louise Riotte.

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When we learn the laws of nature--what to do and when to do it--we have the proper tools for strengthening both ourselves and our stock and curing or preventing many ills.--Louise Riotte

Louise Riotte has taught thousands of gardeners how to plant and harvest in harmony with the astrological calendar. Now she offers her expertise to help improve the health and well-being of your domestic and farm animals.

In her endearing, conversational style, Riotte provides practical animal-care advice as she explains the astrological calendar sign by sign. Learn how to use seasonal changes to increase the milk production of your goats or cows, improve your hens' laying, judge when to shear a sheep, and properly time your animals' breeding. Her guide to the therapeutic properties of herbs will help you keep your animals healthy throughout their lives.

Raising Animals by the Moon is a delightful blend of whimsy and hard-working, practical knowledge that can come only from Louise Riotte.

About the Author

Beloved Storey author and life-long gardener Louise Riotte passed away in 1998 at the age of 89. She wrote 12 books on gardening, companion planting, and garden lore, among them the ever-popular Carrots Love Tomatoes, which has sold approximately 515,000 copies. Her father taught her to believe in and practice astrology, while her mother was a practicing herbalist. Together they inevitably influenced her life and her books, Roses Love Garlic, Astrological Gardening, Sleeping with a Sunflower, Catfish Ponds & Lily Pads, and her most recent book, Raising Animals by the Moon. Her own line drawings are included in all her books. Before authoring books, Riotte was a ghost writer for Simon & Schuster and for Jerry Baker's radio gardening show, and she wrote a number of articles for Organic Gardening as well. Riotte took pride in her garden near her home in Ardmore, Oklahoma, which her son Eugene helped care for in her later years.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC (December 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580170684
• ISBN-13: 978-1580170680
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #441,639 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Beloved Storey author and life-long gardener Louise Riotte passed away in 1998 at the age of 89. She wrote 12 books on gardening, companion planting, and garden lore, among them the ever-popular Carrots Love Tomatoes, which has sold approximately 515,000 copies. Her father taught her to believe in and practice astrology, while her mother was a practicing herbalist. Together they inevitably influenced her life and her books, Roses Love Garlic, Astrological Gardening, Sleeping with a Sunflower, Catfish Ponds & Lily Pads, and her most recent book, Raising Animals by the Moon. Her own line drawings are included in all her books. Before authoring books, Riotte was a ghost writer for Simon & Schuster and for Jerry Baker's radio gardening show, and she wrote a number of articles for Organic Gardening as well. Riotte took pride in her garden near her home in Ardmore, Oklahoma, which her son Eugene helped care for in her later years.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars review of book, June 9, 2010

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This review is from: Raising Animals by the Moon: Practical Advice on Breeding, Birthing, Weaning, and Raising Animals in Harmony with Nature (Paperback)

I recommend this book to anyone raising poultry or livestock. I purchased it because I raise several rare and exotic poultry breeds and find the information very useful.

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A delight to read, a treasure trove of new concepts, August 24, 2005

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Wabi Sabi "bona-fide bibliomaniac" (rural USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Raising Animals by the Moon: Practical Advice on Breeding, Birthing, Weaning, and Raising Animals in Harmony with Nature (Paperback)

For those who have a genuine respect for the law of nature, this book will be a welcome friend. You will empowered with a strong sense of the balance and rhythym of the earth and it's inhabitants. This book equips you with the inspiration and knowledge to forge into the largely neglected synergy of seasonal cycles and animal well-being.

0 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Raising animals by the Moon, January 31, 2009

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Nora Thomes (Oak Island NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This was a Christmas gift for my son-in-law.I'm not sure if he finds it useful or not.