Landscaping Earth Ponds. The guru of earth ponds explains how to site, design, shape, and plant these beloved fixtures of rural landscapes—and make them fit your property and your life.

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Earth Ponds Sourcebook was originally published in 1997, and has gone through six printings. This is the newest revised edition featuring website links and updated Earthponds resources and sources.

Earth Ponds A to Z: An Illustrated Encyclopedia was published in 2002. Over two hundred entries and scores of illustrations cover all aspects of earthponds construction and use.

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Earth Ponds: The Country Pond Maker's Guide to Building, Maintenance, and Restoration was originally published in 1982 and revised and updated in 1991. Over 80,000 copies sold.

Want your own copy of Round-Trip to Deadsville? This limited edition, softcover book signed by the author will be sent to you directly. $20 includes postage.
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288 Miller Pond Road
Thetford Center, VT 05075
802-333-9019

Here’s a Story with a Funeral Plot

Our narrator, Tim Matson, assaulted by middle-aged existential doubt and morbid preoccupations, sets out to confront the demons of death and the denizens of the funeral trade. His odyssey begins as he stares down a photograph of Ginseng Willard, a flinty old Vermonter who built his own coffin from a piano case, then used it as a bed for the rest of his natural days. Matson ups the ante by deciding to build his own coffin. Like any self-respecting American literary hero, he heads out on the road to learn how to go about it. Along the way he meets an unforgettable cabal of characters who populate the funeral underground – among them the Undertaker and the Crusader, the Anatomist and the Astrologer, the Organist and the Gravedigger – and learns why the living always get the last word, and why when sprinkling ashes it’s best to use a wide-mouthed urn.

In Round-Trip to Deadsville, the author taps death on the shoulder and asks to bum a ride. Sometimes you feel as if Buster Keaton had slipped through a trap door into a funeral parlor in backcountry Vermont. Other times you’ll be at the wheel, with Hitchcock and Sartre riding shotgun.
Round-Trip to Deadsville offers thrills, chills, and laughter, but also a face—to—face encounter with some of life’s Big Questions. Click here to read a review of Deadsville.

This Book Could Save Your
Light in a Blackout!

In this comprehensive and engaging guide, Tim Matson surveys an often-overlooked aspect of independent living—firelight. Beginning with an explanation of the lighting system he developed in his Vermont home, he describes in lively detail all the elements of firelight:

• The romantic history, modern molding, and mood-lighting of candlepower
• Traditional kerosene lamps
• The versatile Aladdin
• Liquid propane (LP) gas lights
• Kerosene, paraffin and gas pressure lanterns
• Incandescent mantle safety
• The “Return of Firelight” from glass-fronted hearths and stoves

In addition, Matson shows how to select, assemble, install, and maintain safely these non-electric sources of light, and provides a list of reputable sources for finding and purchasing safe indoor and outdoor lighting products. This guide will be indispensable for vacation homes, camps, boats, RVs, independent homesteads—and anywhere in a blackout. Want your YOUR COPY - Click Here

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The Earth Ponds DVD: Introduction to Design and Construction You've dreamed of building a pond -- for a place to swim and skate, a pool to catch fish, a reservoir of water for the garden and livestock. These are a few of the rewards for the backyard pond owner. Now let pond designer Tim Matson show you how these ponds are designed and built, as well as all the exciting ways that ponds can be enjoyed.
(48 minute DVD) is available from:
Earth Ponds
288 Miller Pond Road
Thetford Center, VT 05075

802-333-9019

$32.95 includes shipping

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