Is the world ready to rethink bread making?

MaryJane Butters thinks so. Wild Bread completely reinvents the concept of healthier-for-you, naturally fermented sourdough.

Until now, sourdough was perceived as too much work and sour-tasting, artisan-style-only loaves. In Wild Bread, her quick and easy 1 minute 2x/day technique demonstrates the use of eight different types of flours for each bread featured--everything from gluten-free brown-rice flour to quinoa to common white to heirloom whole wheat--for a whopping 295 recipes and 475 photographs.

Using her step-by-step method, every style of bread imaginable, including gluten-free, will loft with wild abandon without the purchase of a single packet of not-so-healthy, store-bought yeast. In nutritionally superior wild-yeast bread, fermentation triggers the release of vital nutrients and breaks down carbohydrates. In MaryJane's world, there's no such thing as too much bread because once you convert to slow-rise wild-bread making, that bagel you've been thinking about is more like a vitamin pill than a source of carb-loaded guilt.

Cowgirl romance, backyard cow keeping, farmstyle meals, and cheese recipes from MaryJane Butters.

MaryJane Butters wants YOU to have a cow--that pet cow you've always fantasized about. You know, that gorgeous beauvine grazing outside your kitchen window. What would it feel like to bring a bucket of fresh milk into your kitchen and turn it into butter, your own yogurt, sour cream, and artisan cheeses like Manchego? MaryJane's 5th book, in an all new, paperback format, Milk Cow Kitchen, is two parts cookbook (20 step-by-step cheese recipes and 50 farmstyle meals), one part milk cow how-to, and three parts play!

Whether we're urban or suburban, straight-up city or downright country, cast-iron cookware holds a special place in our hearts.

For generations, it's the one thing that has never changed. Or worn out. With its rich history and formidable staying power, who among us doesn't have at least one of Grandma's skillets?

Not only is it cheaper than its modern-day, fancy-pants counterparts, it's non-toxic. And if your great-granmama were around to utter admonitions, she'd tell you a thing or two about proper kitchenware (and manners), and then hand you a cast-iron griddle and show you how to make a mess of biscuits the likes of which you've never tasted before.

From Asparagus and Mushroom Quiche with Potato Crust to Chicken and Biscuit Skillet Pie to Ham Dinner on the Half Peel to Rhubarb-Raspberry Pandowdy, MaryJane's unpretentious recipes for breads, breakfasts, soups, casseroles, main dishes, and pies and other desserts that include step-by-step instructions accompanied by beautiful color photography will make you feel as if you were sitting with her in her farmhouse kitchen in the outback of Idaho.

Preparing meals in this tried-and-true cookware just got easier with MaryJane's farmhouse recipes and cooking tips that include her unique take on cast-iron cookware care.

MaryJane Butters' go-to guide for putting glamour into camping.

Glamping, or glamour camping, one of the MaryJane's pet concepts, is about the juxtaposition of rugged and really pretty, grit and glam, diesel and absolutely darling. --The New York Times

Glamping--unleashing your inner wild while wearing a pair of fishing-lure earrings--is for every woman (or man!) who ever had a get-away-from-it-all fantasy (with a few frilly embellishments thrown in). Learn about the never-fail campfire, cooking with cast iron, how to change a flat, and much, much more. Follow the growing Glamping movement at maryjanesfarm.org and nationalglampingweekend.com.