An Excellent reference book if you are considering living rurally

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	• Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance John Storey, Martha Storey Storey Publishing, LLC, 1999 - 576 pages average customer review:based on 30 reviews view larger image
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A little bit of EVERYTHING!

If you are looking for one book to serve as a comprehensive guide to nearly every aspect of living in the country and fending for yourself, then you atleast owe it to yourself to browse through this book atleast once; at a minimum, you should borrow it from the library for a peek. This book takes you from start to finish; dawn to dusk; season to season. It may not be as detailed in some areas as you may prefer but you can always find a book dedicated to areas in which you require more information. As a general resource, this book won't be perched on your bookshelf long enough to collect dust since you'll be picking it up on a regular basis.

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Storey's Basic Country Skills

Good book to put the subject on the map for the beginner.

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A Wealth of Knowledge

I picked this book up based on an exhaustive search for a guide that met a few simple items of criteria:
1. Straightforward presentation that was easy to understand.
2. Filled with a great depth of knowledge.
3. Something I could use immediately, and continue to learn from.

Storey's Basic Country Skills nailed each item on my list. When I received the book and flipped through it casually I was able to spot a number of answers and projects for needs I have right now. Beyond that I also found many that gave answers to future needs that I knew I have, but didn't have time to research. I am certain that this book will be well worn within my household as we continue to develop the land around our home.

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An Excellent reference book if you are considering living rurally

John Storey has created an excellent reference guide for people considering living on the land - if nothing else it gives a vast range of pros and cons - and considerations, which need to be made to live rurally. As it is a massive reference work not everything can be dealt with in huge depth, but it has proved to be enormously useful as a first stop off point on what to do. If we have needed to go further we have then consulted other books, however often that is not necessary.

There are some things such as slaughtering cattle which just aren't really what we want to do anyway! What I really liked is that it has the issues you need to think about, with newbies to rural living like ourselves we had no idea of what we needed to even think about - it has saved us making a lot of huge mistakes! I have felt overwhelmed at times by the amount of information you need to have to live successfully off the land, in the past this would have been passed down from generation to generation - so it is learning a whole lifetime of information in one book. Luckily this book is well set out and well written and illustrated which makes using it a whole lot easier.

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