The Encyclopedia of Country Living, 40th Anniversary Edition: The Original Manual for Living off the Land & Doing It Yourself
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Summary
The essential resource for modern homesteading growing and preserving foods and raising chickens The Encyclopedia of Country Living includes how to cultivate a garden buy land bake bread raise farm animals make… sausage can peaches milk a goat grow herbs churn butter build a chicken coop catch a pig cook on a wood stove and much much more This comprehensive resource is the most authoritative guide available to a sustainable lifestyle and living off of the land Carla Emery started writing The Encyclopedia of Country Living in 1969 during the back-to-the-land movement of that time She continued to add content and refine the information over the years and the book went from a self-published mimeographed document to a book of 928 pages This 40th Anniversary Edition reflects the most up-to-date resource information and the most personal version of the book that became Carla Emery s life work It is the original manual of basic country skills that have proved essential and necessary for people living in the country the city and everywhere in between Carla Emery s The Encyclopedia of Country Living contains 1 000 000 words 2 000 recipes and 1 500 mail-order sources for everything she tells you how to do she also tells you where to get the supplies to do it This book is so basic so thorough so reliable that it deserves a place in every home From the Trade Paperback edition