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Escape the City volume 2
Escape the City is the perfect guide for people who live in the city or suburbs and want to move to the country. This is the "missing manual" that tells you absolutely everything you need to know on thousands of topics that you never even realized existed. Whether you're interested in shopping for a used tractor, starting garden seeds in a grow tent, logging your own trees, planting a berry patch, breeding sheep, arranging for firewood delivery, making ten gallons of hearty soup from a pig skeleton, installing solar electric power, or fighting invasive species, Escape the City has the information you need.
There are endless books on gardening, farming, and homesteading.
Why this book? Escape the City explains all of the basics - everything from buying a tractor to fertilizing gardens - and concludes with dozens of recipes for farm-to-table dishes like Apple Pie with lard crust, Maple Creme Brulee, Pork Stock, Duck Leg Confit, Pork and Pumpkin Soup, Lamb Chops, and even a Whole Pig Roast.
There are endless books on gardening, farming, and homesteading.
Why this book? Escape the City explains all of the basics - everything from buying a tractor to fertilizing gardens - and concludes with dozens of recipes for farm-to-table dishes like Apple Pie with lard crust, Maple Creme Brulee, Pork Stock, Duck Leg Confit, Pork and Pumpkin Soup, Lamb Chops, and even a Whole Pig Roast.
652 pages, Paperback
Published April 22, 2021
About the author
Travis J.I. Corcoran
14 books100 followersTravis J I Corcoran is a Catholic anarcho-capitalist, a software engineer, and a business owner. He is an amateur at farming, wood turning, blacksmithing, cooking, throwing ceramic pots, and a few other things.
He lives on a 50 acre farm in New Hampshire with his wife, dogs, livestock, and a variety of lathes and milling machines.
Travis has had non-fiction articles published in several national magazines including Dragon, Make, and Fine Homebuilding.
The Powers of the Earth is his first novel.
He lives on a 50 acre farm in New Hampshire with his wife, dogs, livestock, and a variety of lathes and milling machines.
Travis has had non-fiction articles published in several national magazines including Dragon, Make, and Fine Homebuilding.
The Powers of the Earth is his first novel.
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May 19, 2022
Pretentious lecturing
The author will tell you how wrong and impractical other homesteading/country living authors are. Those authors have decades of experience? Still wrong. They rambled (while these two volumes are thousands of pages long), they didn't talk enough about tractors and workshops (he'll fix that with hundreds of pages on them), their theories are just wrong (not sure why he bothered to bring them up at all then), along with just twisting other authors' words so he could shoot them down.
He has a rigid idea of what is needed for homesteading, and goes on at length in excruciating detail on topics most people could either figure out on their own or learn in other books, such as the town meeting system in New Hampshire, or how to hire and fire farmhands, to name two examples that consumed pages and pages.
The author also likes to snark off about issues wholly unrelated to homesteading (TOR Books is bad because...diversity?) and the latter part of the book is mostly essays like "Urban farming is stupid." In essays where he starts to sound sensible, like good critiques on modern prepping culture, he'll throw out some bizarre stuff (Preppers are obsessed with Jerusalem artichokes?)
The occasional good parts were not worth the stulifying lecturing, hectoring tone and the snippy comments. On the other hand, I now have a new list of authors to check out - the ones he made sure you knew were wrong.
The author will tell you how wrong and impractical other homesteading/country living authors are. Those authors have decades of experience? Still wrong. They rambled (while these two volumes are thousands of pages long), they didn't talk enough about tractors and workshops (he'll fix that with hundreds of pages on them), their theories are just wrong (not sure why he bothered to bring them up at all then), along with just twisting other authors' words so he could shoot them down.
He has a rigid idea of what is needed for homesteading, and goes on at length in excruciating detail on topics most people could either figure out on their own or learn in other books, such as the town meeting system in New Hampshire, or how to hire and fire farmhands, to name two examples that consumed pages and pages.
The author also likes to snark off about issues wholly unrelated to homesteading (TOR Books is bad because...diversity?) and the latter part of the book is mostly essays like "Urban farming is stupid." In essays where he starts to sound sensible, like good critiques on modern prepping culture, he'll throw out some bizarre stuff (Preppers are obsessed with Jerusalem artichokes?)
The occasional good parts were not worth the stulifying lecturing, hectoring tone and the snippy comments. On the other hand, I now have a new list of authors to check out - the ones he made sure you knew were wrong.
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