All the answers a new hobby farmer will ever ask.

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	• The Encyclopedia of Country Living Carla Emery Sasquatch Books, 2008 - 928 pages average customer review:based on 155 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

All the answers a new hobby farmer will ever ask.

This book is really great, I find answers when I have questions about my cows, my goats, making cheese or butter from my milk. Garden issues, canning and freezing my produce, pretty much anything else I could need to know. It is like having an expert living with you. It is also written in a easy to understand and easy to find format. I suggest it to anyone who has a small farm or is thinking of starting one.

One of a kind.

This is truly a one-of-a-kind find. I first ran across this book years ago in our public library. I checked it out regularly and blissfully poured over it's many pages. Having grown-up in rural America, in the 1970s the book brought back memories of a simpler time. The information is so user friendly that anyone today wanting to try their hand at homesteading or just looking for a simpler way of life would find it useful. The newer edition I purchased was filled with all of the original information, along with helpful web-sites to aid in your search on many of the topics. Quite frankly one of my best purchases.

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The Encyclopedia of Country Living

This copy of The Encyclopedia of Country Living was purchased as a gift for my mother to replace her loaned copy that someone never returned. She gave me and older copy because she had a newer edition and then found herself without one. She was calling me to refer to my copy for her which had to be annoying for her. Mom raises chickens and raises her own fruit and vegetables and I raise goats, chickens and do some gardening. There are many details on how to raise, feed, house, slaughter and cook poultry and livestock. There is information on different types of vegetables, nuts, berries etc. preservation techniques and recipes. I am just scratching the surface of the contents; the book has been an invaluable resource with answers to just about all our questions. I highly recommend it, especially for beginners to country life!

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A great reference book

I've owned this book for years. It has a lot of useful information for anyone interested in becoming more self-sufficient, especially those with a Christian outlook. Every homesteader should have a copy of this book on their bookshelf.

The thing that keeps me from giving it 5 stars is the fact that it makes numerous references to other outside sources (books, pamphlets, internet, etc.)which made it so that I had to continually refer to some other source to get all the info I wanted on the given subject.
Also, because she covers so much in one volume, there isn't a great deal of depth, or not as much as I was hoping for.

But all in all, it's a great reference manual!

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No home, whether in the country, the city, or somewhere in between, should be without this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia ? the most complete source of information available about growing, processing, cooking, and preserving homegrown foods from the garden, orchard, field, or barnyard. For more than 30 years, people have relied on its practical, step-by-step advice on basic self-sufficiency skills such as how to cultivate a garden, buy land, bake bread, raise farm animals, make sausage, milk a goat, grow herbs, churn butter, build a chicken coop, cook on a wood stove, and much, much more. First written at the height of the 1960s back-to-the-land movement, the book has been continually revised, updated, and expanded, and has grown from a self-published, mimeographed document to an exhaustive reference of more than one million words, 2,000+ recipes, and over 1,500 mail order sources. Emery?s personal advice, reflections, and anecdotes ensure that this incredibly detailed, diverse reference is as enjoyable as it is useful.

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