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For twenty years people have relied on these hundreds of recipes, instructions, and morsels of invaluable practical advice on all aspects of growing and preparing food. This definitive classic on food, gardening, and self-sufficient living is a complete resource for living off the land with over 800 pages of collected wisdom from country maven, Carla Emery--how to cultivate a garden, buy land, bake bread, raise farm animals, make sausage, milk a goat, grow herbs, churn butter, catch a pig, make soap, work with bees and more. Encyclopedia of Country Living is so basic, so thorough, so reliable, it deserves a place in every home--whether in the country, the city, or somewhere in between.
No home, whether in the country, the city, or somewhere in between, should be without this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia — the most complete source of information available about growing, processing, cooking, and preserving homegrown foods from the garden, orchard, field, or barnyard. For more than 30 years, people have relied on its practical, step-by-step advice on basic self-sufficiency skills such as how to cultivate a garden, buy land, bake bread, raise farm animals, make sausage, milk a goat, grow herbs, churn butter, build a chicken coop, cook on a wood stove, and much, much more. First written at the height of the 1960s back-to-the-land movement, the book has been continually revised, updated, and expanded, and has grown from a self-published, mimeographed document to an exhaustive reference of more than one million words, 2,000+ recipes, and over 1,500 mail order sources. Emery’s personal advice, reflections, and anecdotes ensure that this incredibly detailed, diverse reference is as enjoyable as it is useful.
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Customer Reviews: - Excellent Book, full of useful information
Full of useful information on Gardening, cooking, cleaning, everything. How to preserve veggies and meats. A very useful encyclopedia that should be on everyone's bookshelf. Gives good, general information and gives sources for additional information if more specific information is needed. A must have....more info - Excellent resource for the aspiring farmer
Wow. What a wonderful way to start researching a self-sustainable life. The book, a bible of sorts, covers vast territories of the agricultural lifestyle. Also a great guide to other resources. The friendly dialog creates comfort, and prefaces specific directions on how to reap the bounty of the harvest. I highly encourage anyone curious about farm life to check out this book....more info - Total self sufficiency on a farm
This is a brilliant book, packed full of details about how to live a completely self sufficient lifestyle on a farm. While I found it a wonderful book for experienced country people, it was a little too much for me, being a city dweller moving to the country.
However, I recommend it to anyone who wants to know all the details about how to be totally self sufficient....more info - Country Living
This book has all the information that buyers said it did, and more. A lot of basic farm and country know-how that will come in handy, if we do loose some of our conveniences through the coming months, due to the economical problems we are experiencing....more info - Amazingly complete & useful!
This book has pretty much everything you'd ever need to know about homesteading. It is amazing that one person could possess all this information, do much of it on a daily basis and still find the time to write an unbelievably comprehensive manual for do-it-yourself country living. :)...more info - Survival
This book should be given to every newly wed couple. Its one of the those books you would grab to take off the shelf to run out the door in a major disaster. Carla just keeps adding more. I have seen one of her original self produced hand bound beginnings, and this has truly come along way.
Right up there with the firefox but in a more condensed version....more info - Great
This book was given as a gift. My sister loved it. Very informative. Very educational....more info - Great book
This is a great book for beginners like me. Don't expect to learn from this book EVERY little detail on how to do everything on a farm but do expect the basics on everything imaginable plus with many practical details. It goeas without saying, that you cannot learn practical skills from any book, including this one. So don't expect to become a master homesteader after reading this, or any other book. Books give you information and not skills which only come from practice. This is such a book. Books like this can provide you with valuable hints on how to do things right or right with less sweat. They save valuable time, effort and money by saving you making a number of errors in a trial-and-error type of learning process.
This book includes not just agricultural/animal husbandry information but also has information on things like beekeeping, use of tools, names/adresses of companies selling seeds, tools etc. There are numerous recepies so this book might even be used as a cookbook based on ingredients you can obtain from your own land.
Covers almost every aspect of country living I can think of from gardening to keeping animals, from how to deal with the side effects of bean eating (gases...) to how to deal with african bees if you live in an infested area (soapy water in sprayers). Also, unlike encyclopedias in general, this one reads very easily. The best book I've read so far (2009) on the subject of homesteading.
A general advice to money-savers: if you are not sure wether you want to have this book, get it from a library. Browse through it and then decide if you want to spend the money to have it on your desk. I strongly recommend this big book (it's more like a tome) for anybody interested in homesteading but its your taste and expectations that should be met....more info - A Great Knowledge Tool
As the publisher of [...] I'm always on the lookout for helpful information. That kind that gives people an edge when dealing with catastrophic events. What this book offers is helpful for those who survive those events and must then rebuild with whatever is at hand....more info - My bible of family survival techniques
I first read Carla's book in the 70's when I married a part-time farmer. She helped this city girl learn how to manage a large garden, livestock, preserving, milking,and storing the surplus. Her humorous anecdotes about family also helped while raising my children. I recently purchased a new book for myself and my nephew. He had returned from a 2 year stint in the peacecorp in Africa and had an interest in living a more basic life back home. I would recommend this book for anyone interested in getting back, not to a simple life, but to a meaningful, full life!...more info - Great book!
This book is a great compendium of country living.
It may be a little oldfashioned and unusual compared to more modern books about the topic but it's a great book.
If I had to live in the country with only one book it would be this.
This is an encyclopedia and for it's price and contents of knowledge inside worth every penny....more info - Wealth of info
Probably one of the best overall books on doing it yourself and self sufficiency I've read. Very well worth the price which isn't all that much for a book like this. Wonderful, homey touches in the writing as well. Should be the first book that anyone hoping to homestead or live off the land should get....more info - Very Thorough!
I was very impressed thumbing through the book, she leaves no stone unturned. I was also grateful for the section she had on vegetarian cooking!! I learned you have to take one thing at a time when using this book. The only downfall is that the sections are not properly designated, so you might have a hard time finding something if you do not bookmark it the first time....more info - This is my 'desert island' book
If you have to choose only one book for your 'back to the land' bookshelf, make it this one.
I have owned the last three editions of this book, and I have been reading this type of book for over 30 years, now, since I picked up my grandmother's copy of the first 'Foxfire' book. This is the best, most comprehensive book I have ever read. On any topic. And I have read it cover to cover, too many times to count.
I was born and raised in metropolitan Tampa Bay, Florida. Even then, I dreamed of having a farm. I bought this book when my husband was in the military, we were moving every 18 months, and had never owned a house, much less a farm. It gave me something to dream on. I have memorized most of it by now, and my copy is ragged from actually using it to learn from. We now have a very small farm, raising veggies, fruits, goats, ducks, and chickens naturally. 'The Country Recipe Book' gave me the courage to follow my dreams, and enough basic knowledge to figure out how. (Learning to milk the goat, while reading the directions out loud to my husband and 12 year old daughter, was worth every penny I've ever spent on it...)....more info - Invaluable Information
The best most thorough book about living off the land I have seen. Info on almost every topic imaginable related to country living. No nonsense. But light humored. Enjoyable reading with wisdom you would only have been able to get from your grandmother if she had been a farmers wife....more info - WOW!! SO MANY TOPICS, VERY WELL EXPLAINED!
This is truly a great book! An excellent resource for those of us who like the idea of living "off the grid" and being self-reliant. Covering everything from births at home to making breads from your own home-grown grains, this is a practical reference that is easy to read and very down to earth. Lots of information, but in a easy-to-follow casual style which makes it very easy to apply the knowledge yourself and get a jump on a homesteader's life. Even if you aren't interested in homesteading, the country skills she teaches are practical in emergency situations or during a loss of power. And it is just plain interesting to read!...more info - Everyone should have a copy!
Fantastic! Why just a few pages of the jam packed book are worth the money. Carla goes into great detail answering almost all the questions you have and if not she gives a book or web to find more! This is a must have for any homesteader!...more info
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