Encyclopedia for country living 10th edition

I didn't finish it. It is a book to have on your shelf for constant reference as the farm grows. I will be adding it to my library as it is a must have. There is everything from detailed gardening to how to make egg noodles.

Helpful reference book. Mar 09, Dahlia rated it it was amazing. View 1 comment. Jun 11, AJ rated it liked it Shelves: , non-fiction. This book is like several books smashed into one. It covers almost all bases - growing, preserving, cooking veggies, grains, legumes, etc, raising animals and maybe even eating them too I skipped the last chapters about animals.

As far as a reference book to keep on hand, it seems invaluable if you really do have a "country living" situation, with its abilities to have farm animals and significant growing areas.

For myself, I think I'd like to try a small kitchen garden and go from there. Feb 05, Deborah rated it it was amazing. I use this reference manual for most everything country over and over again! View 2 comments. Mar 28, Jeanne rated it liked it Shelves: reads , non-fiction. I had heard of this book for years, so decided to get it from the library. It is not the kind of book you read from cover to cover. I was particularly interested in the food preservation, oddments and herb sections.

This is a book about self-sufficient living, so it also has interesting things like a diagram of a hog with an X placed exactly where you should shoot it.

I also enjoyed the recipes for pickled pig's feet and scrapple, amont others. This would be a great book to own, if you actually I had heard of this book for years, so decided to get it from the library.

This would be a great book to own, if you actually were living a "homesteading" lifestyle. May 15, Jenny rated it it was amazing Shelves: nature-food-politics. This is a MASSIVE reference book over pages long on just about anything you'd need to know about country living, including how to purchase farm animals, catch a run-away pig, milk a cow, make sausage, can tomatoes, build a chicken coop, etc.

This book is jam-packed with an impressive amount of detail, and includes diagrams, references, mail-order sources, and price estimates. A wonderful book to either flip through for inspiration or to turn to for detailed advice. Nov 30, Calamity Jane rated it it was amazing Shelves: sustainable-living , preserving. I grew up with this book, and read it many a time as i plotted my own future homestead.

GREAT armchair reading. Mar 26, Morgan Mitchell rated it it was amazing. The first page I turned to said, "How to take care of your dead". So I figure it has it all. This book has everything your Grandmother should have taught you! I love learning how to do things on my own like making pickles and soap, so I am enjoying it.

This book might have just saved my life! Jan 10, Sandy rated it it was amazing. One of my all time favorite books. The first time I made bread by hand, it was by a recipe in this book for four loaves.

Everytime I have sat down to read this, I almost get lost in the pages! I love it. This isn't one of those read all the way through at once even though I did so when I first got it! Huge book! Carla Emery takes the intimidation out of so many areas of country living and her book delivers! Jul 15, Mrs.

This book is almost as thick as a phone book, and contains information on just about everything you could think of when it comes to living in the country - canning, raising chickens, gardening, the works. I love it because it provides a great jumping off point for me to research topics in more depth from other sources. I'll be reading and re-reading this one for a long while. Shelves: If the apocalypse had actually occurred yesterday and I was left behind, this is the book I would want to have with me.

It has instructions on seriously everything you could ever need to survive, from growing your own food, to castrating goats, to giving birth. I will probably hopefully never need a lot of this information, but it is incredibly interesting to read. Jun 22, Laurel Fischback rated it it was amazing. Carla Emery homesteaded in the Yukon Territoy and this book contains the wealth of information gained in that journey. Written is a very easy manner, containing humorous snippets of her blunders along the way.

An invaluable resource of recipes for cooking from basic products, homesteaders,and health conscience cooks. Nov 09, Lora rated it it was amazing Shelves: wit-and-wisdom. Excellent compendium of living a simpler life, covering many aspects from land to animals to kids to health to life and death. I have never read this entire book. I use some pages regularly, and sometimes I just pull it down and flip it open to see what I'm going to learn about next.

Last time I did that, I ended up reading a recipe using a camel! Nov 27, Jeanna Morgan rated it really liked it. This is a book that anyone wanting to live a homesteading life needs. It can be read from cover to cover, but for me it is more of a little at a time book. Whatever I am doing at the time, be it learning about a certain plant, how to preserve food, or how to make cheese; I just refer to that section and read up on it.

It is a very good book. Carla Emery really knew her stuff. Sep 01, Jill Bateman rated it it was amazing. I have to be perfectly honest here, I have NOT read this book. I'd say I've read "on" this book! I've had it for a number of years now and I pull it out of my shelf a lot and look things up This is a great collection of lost skills and it makes me happy!

Jan 06, Bill rated it really liked it. Another great reference book for those wanting to learn lost of arts of our agrarian past.

Whether you are interested in simple gardening, self-sufficiency or just being less wasteful and more green in your lifestyle, this books provides the information you will need. Jan 25, Reanna Tuft rated it liked it. Great info on raising animals, farming, bee keeping just about everything you need to know about country living. It was more like a journal than a dictionary though so that's why I didn't love it and the pictures could of been better.

Feb 06, Amy added it. I keep going back to this resource on everything farm-ish. It gives me information enough that I can then start asking people questions and figure out what other books I need on the subject. Current interest: lambs and meat sheep! Next time you need to castrate a goat, check out this book first. Jun 07, Lisa rated it it was ok. This book wasn't what I expected, and maybe thats why I didnt like it? It was a resource book with snipits and blurbs about various homesteading items.

But, it wasnt in depth or useful to me. Mar 15, Matthew rated it really liked it. Great reference book for anyone who's looking to live on the land - I saw this years ago at a book store in Portland Powell's, baby! May 01, Lil Miss rated it it was amazing. There are no discussion topics on this book yet.

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