Description
A comprehensive guide to practical self-sufficiency, this classic reference covers everything from cultivating gardens and orchards to raising animals, preserving food, baking bread, and cooking without modern conveniences. Its step-by-step instruction extends to homesteading essentials such as making butter and sausage, milking goats, building a chicken coop, selecting land, and using a wood stove. Blending generations of hands-on knowledge with personal reflections, recipes, resource listings, and engaging anecdotes, it serves rural homesteaders, aspiring smallholders, and anyone seeking greater independence at home. Rooted in the back-to-the-land movement and continually expanded over decades, the book remains an unusually thorough and approachable manual for sustainable living.
Available Editions
paperback
Sasquatch Books
Published Jan 1, 2008
928 pages
ISBN: 9781570615535
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Details
First Published
1970
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery.