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	• The Encyclopedia of Country Living: An Old Fashioned Recipe Book Carla Emery Sasquatch Books, 2003 - 864 pages average customer review:based on 110 reviews view larger image
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If you are entertaining small farm fantasies, start here!

We're lifelong suburbanites, but we picked up this book after reading the reviews here because my youngest daughter wants to raise some chickens and, after all, we do have 5 acres with no livestock restrictions. What a wealth of information. I thought the chickens sounded like work, but they actually didn't sound too bad compared to keeping a few dairy goats. Reality-check time!!! Once you start poking around in this book, you find all sorts of great things- like how about aprox. 10 different yougart and kefir making methodologies. We're still considering the chickens, but I think I'll just go to the store for goat milk- I like my landscaping too much. That probably sounds funny to all you real farmers out there. Well, I'm thrilled that we saved ourselves so much unnecessary work!

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One of the best

"The Encyclopedia of Country Living" is an expansive volume of collected wisdom, techniques, recipes, and other information for living in the country. To a great extent it is a volume on self-sufficiency without harming the environment in any substantial way. The only assumption that seems to be made is that the land you purchase will have a house on it or you will have one built. Everything else, from buying the land, to what plants to plant, when to plant them, where to get them, how to grow them, and how to harvest them to what animals to raise, how to raise them, how to use them for food and dairy to how to deal with child birthing in the wilderness (where you may be alone when it happens), dealing with pollution, enriching your soil, and even worm farming. This is an exhaustive study in country living with very detailed and thorough sections on farming. In addition the author includes page after page of other sources of information, where to purchase things, catalogue sources, websites, and just about every other conceivable way to get the items mentioned in the text. If there was a way to take all the old-timers in the country, get them all together, draw out all the skills they have learned over the years and distill it into a book this is the book that you would create. "The Encyclopedia of Country Living, 9th Edition" is a very highly recommended read not only for those looking to move to the country after a lifetime in the city, but also for those who, like me, have that backyard garden and could use the extensive information presented here to make it even more successful and fun.

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lives up to name

This is a monster of a book. You will not be able to read it in one sitting. Carla does cover her material very well, but in an easy to read way that makes you want it to be shorter so you CAN read it at one time. She does put quite a bit of herself into it. You will discover she is a christian. You will find out that she had seven children. And you will also find out there are three ways to make hominy. That pigs wil distroy almost any fencing. And perhaps you might discover why this book became her life's work with its constant revisions and additions.

The BEST Reference Book

With 65 reviews already written by the time I add this one, you know people are reading and enjoying this book! I gave a copy to all my friends interested in raising ANYTHING.
Carla's book is like sitting down with an old friend and listening to her time-tested advise. When I want a quick reference to something like raising chickens or tapping trees for syrup, I grab myself a cup of copy and realize that I will spend time giggling and contemplating life as I read her advise and the advise of people who write to her.
The newest edition includes internet information which is quite helpful in this 21st century. Hope you enjoy the book as much as we do here in Auberry.

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