Country Wisdom Almanac: 373 Tips, Crafts, Home Improvements, Recipes, and Homemade Remedies

by Storey Publishing

The bestselling Country Wisdom Almanac provides hundreds of ideas and methods for living the good and simple life, plus information on weather, gardening, buying produce and cooking by season, holidays, frost dates, moon phases, and more.
Divided into the four seasons and then organized into 373 individual tips, the Country Wisdom Almanac presents a wide variety of ways to live a simpler, more self-sustained life year round. Each season offers home-improvement ideas (wallpaper a room in the Fall or build a stone wall in the Spring), crafts (create gorgeous homemade decorations for Christmas, Halloween, or the Fourth of July), recipes (use seasonal produce to create fresh, healthy meals), gardening advice (what and when to plant in order to get the maximum results from your land), and more.

Genres: Nonfiction, Reference, Food, Crafts

316 pages, Paperback

First published February 14, 2008

Reviews

[Robyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read some other reviews after I read this book. I would have to agree it is a bit all over the place. It didn’t really give ideas on when or how to use some of the knowledge. Might be handy to have as a basic resource guide to review if you need to know if your cat is angry. Honestly save your money and find one of the better books to invest in. If you are curious to understand your cat or dog check it out at your library for free.

[Stephanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

At first I thought this book was rad, then I really started marking what I wanted to try and noted the ratio between those and the total 373 items was so low. This book has some good recipes and a couple of other items I will use but I don't think I'll have an urge to make something like, oh, say the "Squirrel Skillet Pie." It also had a bunch of useless crafts I would never do like how to decorate wrapping paper using an apple as a stamp (hmm, I think that was an art project in the 1st grade) and how to use a grapevine to make a wreath. I have a grapevine but won't be using it to make a wreath anytime soon, thank you very much. All in all, if you're curious check it out at the library...I wouldn't buy it. Also, it seemed like all of these items could be easily located via a Google search.

[Kerrymac · Rating 4 out of 5]

Country Wisdom Almanac is packed with tips, crafts, etc as the name suggests. It's divided into sections by season which I mostly like. I have now read through Autumn and will finish the section on Winter when I can better focus on that season! Entries that I'm most interested in include recipes, uses for herbs, gardening and home repairs.

I finished the book even though winter is a long way off. There are so many pages I've dogeared and will return to throughout the seasons.

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A friend suggested this book. I found a used copy and have loved it. If you want to know how to build a chicken coop, make soap, can food or build a smoke house, this book if for you. There is so much great stuff between the covers of this over-sized book, it could take you years to complete all the projects. LUV this book.

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book gave me several project tips for my blog (modernishhomemaker.com) as well as tips for improving my garden's soil quality and yield for next year.

[Melea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really good "back-to-nature" advice divided by seasons so the info is easily accessible.