This book covers a lot of interesting topics. Unfortunately, it covers A LOT of interesting topics, but BARELY covers any of them. It's definitely a great starter book for someone interested in all sorts of backyard gardening, food preserving, livestock raising, bee keeping, maple tree tapping/syrup making, etc topics, but think of it more as a book to sort of make you aware of the basic ideas/issues, and then from there you can decide if you want to read more by getting other resources.

The funny thing is, I didn't even remember checking out and reading parts of this book before... Because of it's broad-yet-shallow coverage, it just doesn't catch the attention that well I'm afraid.