Country Wisdom & Know-How

I love this book! My husband purchased it for me as a gift and it has been a wonderful reference manual for so many things. It has given me great ideas on how to expand the self-sufficiency of my home. I can't wait to build the compost frames from the plans in this book. My family has enjoyed some of recipes for thanksgiving dinner and preserves put up for the Winter months. The only negative I could name would be the index is not always as complete as I would like. I have written in what page the tomato sauce recipe can be found next to Tomatoes entry, since I don't usually think to look for it under Pasta Sauce. Regardless, the tomato sauce is delicious.

This is a great resource for country living. We bought it for our son-in-law and then ordered another one for ourselves. And we live on the same property! But this is one worth having close at hand.

This is a very thorough and concise book. Everything that I want to know about butchering chickens, building a rock wall, and cleaning squirrel was in there. It is wonderful.

This book has a little bit of everything. I am young and trying to start off on my own in the country. I refer to this book often. Great gardening section and animal tips.Use this as one of your main reference materials.

There is an insane amount of valuable information in this book, the only reason I'm giving 4 and not 5 stars is that I think the layout could be better (this is a gigantic book made out of recycled paper with a softcover, which makes it very floppy). Otherwise this is a great thing to have in the house, although I'd suggest getting When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance and Planetary Survival as well.