num_pages: 922
description: The bible of sustainable living food gardening and living green no home is complete without this one-of-a-kind encyclopedia! For more than thirty years people have relied on the thousands of recipes detailed how-to instructions and personal advice provided in this definitive classic. It is the most complete source of step-by-step information about growing processing cooking and preserving homegrown foods from garden orchard field or barnyard. This book is so basic so thorough so reliable that it deserves a place in every home whether country city or in between. Carla Emery started writing The Encyclopedia of Country Living in 1969 during the back-to-the-land movement of that time. She continued to add content and refine the information over the years ad the book went from a self-published mimeographed document to a book published by Bantam and then Sasquatch. The 10th Edition reflects the most up-to-date and the most personal version of the book that became Carla Emerys life work. It is the original manual of basic country skills that have proved essential and necessary for people living in the country and the city and everywhere in between. The practical advice in this exhaustive reference tool includes how to cultivate a garden buy land bake bread raise farm animals make sausage can peaches milk a goat grow herbs churn butter build a chicken coop catch a pig cook on a wood stove and much much more.
language: English
title: The Encyclopedia of Country Living
publisher: Sasquatch Books