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Title: Storey's Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-Reliance by M. John Storey, Deborah Burns, Storey Books ISBN: 1-58017-202-4 Publisher: Storey Books Pub. Date: September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The bible (small-b) of rural living
Comment: We bought this tome just a few weeks before moving from the city where we'd lived our entire lives to a 20-acre rural country place miles and miles from any city limits.
For the first year especially, we kept this book out. You would be astonished at its contents. It describes the pros and cons of water wells, reusing dirt, planning land for gardens and barns, chicken problems, keeping goats, arranging around weather, tanning leather, insect control, tree problems to watch out for and their solutions, energy in places where the lines don't run, getting water from point A to B, storing grains and other foods, and... you NAME IT!
This made our lives so much better. We didn't even use all the advice we read simply because one family can only do so much the first year they move into the country for the first time but this book was our comfort book in knowing that if we had problems, we'd find the solutions here.
Rating: 5
Summary: Super book!
Comment: Not only is there a bounty of excellent and easily accessible information in this book but it is enjoyable to read. This book is a good place to start if you're thinking of rural living.
Rating: 5
Summary: Another great book in the "Storey" series
Comment: Storey, for me, is quickly becoming my reference book of choice, as far as "how to live on a farm if you weren't born on one" goes. This book was my jumping off point. It contains sections on how to buy land, how to build your home, how to raise chickens, sheep, goats, pigs, and cows. I should note, however, that this book is more like a "compilation" of works by other authors. The Basic Country Skills (BCS) extracts information from many other books, and puts them in one reference text. There are a few parts where I think the editors forgot to re-lable diagrams (specifically in the "how to butcher a cow" section) but if you're planning on slaughtering your own animals, you should probably buy a reference manual specific to butchering to compliment this one. BCS is a great book for people like me who are planning to buy a little patch of earth somewhere far away from the hubub of city life, but who can only dream about it for the present. BCS is a great primer for those who want to get closer to where our food comes from than waxed supermarket produce, or shrinkwrapped beef. I'm not a vegetarian, but it doesn't seem fair for meat eaters to eat something that they didn't have to feed and care for, and finally, to come to terms with the fact that this animal you've had for 9 months is going to be the beef for your family for the next year. Taking its life, so that you can continue yours.. that should be each of our (meat-eaters anyway) responsibility. To treat our food with dignity, and kindness, and thank it for nourishing and providing for us.
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Title: The Encyclopedia of Country Living: An Old Fashioned Recipe Book by Carla Emery ISBN: 157061377X Publisher: Sasquatch Books Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Five Acres and Independence by Maurice G. Kains ISBN: 0486209741 Publisher: Dover Pubns List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills by Readers Digest ISBN: 0895779390 Publisher: Readers Digest Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Handy Farm Devices: And How to Make Them by Rolfe Cobleigh ISBN: 1558214321 Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Root Cellaring: Natural Cold Storage of Fruits and Vegetables by Mike Bubel, Nancy Bubel, Pam Art ISBN: 0882667033 Publisher: Storey Books Pub. Date: October, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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