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published
July 28th 2008
by Sasquatch Books
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Paperback, 928 pages
isbn
1570615535
(isbn13: 9781570615535)
description
For twenty years people have relied on these hundreds of recipes, instructions, and morsels of invaluable practical advice on all aspects of growing ...more
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06/13/09
Jerry
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Finally decided to learn something useful. This is the 10th edition of her book. It seems to contain everything you need know to be self-sufficient. All the stuff I failed to learn from my grandparents. Our first little garden is coming in nicely, but a fierce battle is being waged with the chipmunks, squirrels, wild turkey, groundhogs, rabbits, deer, moles, birds, bear, and raccoon (and we live in NJ!) Seems like everyone wants to eat. I never saw this many animals growing up in Appalachia (pr...more
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Read in March, 2009
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 actu...more
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Read in March, 2009
good lord, this book is comprehensive. i got it out of the library because i'm trying to put in a garden and am clueless, but i found myself paging through it, fascinated, as she discusses such handy and useful things as how one slaughters a hog, keeps hens from getting "broody," does laundry with a plunger and bucket, etc. information that won't help me a bit in my urban home, but which is entertaining to read and, as with the animal-slaughtering-how-tos, page past very quickly. if...more
Read in January, 2009
This is a MASSIVE reference book over 900 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.
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Got this one along with a couple of other "basic skills bibles", and so far I'm impressed with the breadth and depth of its coverage. Been reading about corn lately, all kinds of stuff about it. A good one for the commode, to have handy and just open randomly to any page.
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Read in April, 2009
If you want to have an "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" experience, Carla shows you how in her book. So much fun, hopefully one day I can use the information.
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Read in November, 2008
This book has soooo much info in it on so many different subjects on self-sufficiency, gardening, cooking, etc. it is unbelievable. Not the most well organized book, but the author makes it for it by putting her very heart and soul and 32 years of experience right out there. At some points in the writing she is a young mother with one baby, other times with 6 children and mostly teenagers, and others she is middle aged and divorced. Many different perspectives on 'country living' all in one b...more
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Read in June, 2009
I LOVE this book! Thanks to Heather for telling me about it. It really is a conglomeration of lots of things, but I really enjoy it!
Another book from the library that is so chock full of stuff I could never read it cover to cover. Rather, it's exactly what it says it is: An encyclopedia which, as a reference, would be handy to have around the house! So I'll put out the word that I'm looking for a copy and see what happens. :)
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05/22/09
Lindsay
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