The Pioneer Woman
Ree describes herself as a desperate housewife who lives in the country and channels Lucille Ball and Ethel Merman. She’s a former city girl, now married and a homeschooling mom. SO funny and smart! You will love this site!
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Countryside Magazine
Countryside & Small Stock Journal (better known as just “Countryside”) is more than a magazine: it’s a network where homesteaders share a wide variety of experiences and ideas about simple, sustainable, country living.
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Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills, Third EditionAnyone who wants to learn basic living skills—the kind employed by our forefathers—need look no further than this eminently useful, full-color guide. Countless readers have turned to Back to Basics for inspiration and instruction, rediscovering the pleasures and challenges of a healthier, greener, and more self-sufficient lifestyle. Back to Basics will help you dye your own wool with plant pigments, graft trees, raise chickens, craft a hutch table with hand tools, and make treats such as blueberry peach jam and cheddar cheese. More than just practical advice, this is also a book for dreamers—you will find your imagination sparked, and there’s no reason why you can’t, for example, make a loom and weave a rag rug. This may be the most thorough book on voluntary simplicity available. | |
Storey’s Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-RelianceThis is the book for anyone who wants to become more self-reliant, from suburbanites with 1/4 of an acre to country homesteaders with several. The information is easily understood and readily applicable. More than 150 of Storey’s expert authors in gardening, building, animal raising, and homesteading share their specialized knowledge and experience in this ultimate guide to living a more independent, satisfying life. Readers will find step-by-step, illustrated instructions for every aspect of country living.
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The Encyclopedia of Country LivingFrom Publisher’s Weekly: The updated ninth edition of this compendium of food production information is the hefty result of over three decades of intelligence-gathering by Emery, whose initial encyclopedia project was designed to help newbies in the “back to the land” movement of the early 70s learn self-sufficiency. Tasks Emery covers run the gamut from the simple to the complex, and from the common to the strange, and include how to: bake bread, make seed milk, sew a cornhusk bed, dry flowers, prune kiwi vines, culture yogurt, plant beans, keep bees, build a fish pond, artificially inseminate a turkey and help a cow who’s eaten nails. Though it’s definitely not aimed at them, urbanites will find the recipes and resources lists useful, the trivia interesting, and Emery’s personal reflections compelling. Even readers with no plans to raise sheep, sell homemade cheese or plant millet will find this a fascinating cultural document. | |
The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live ItThis book teaches all the skills needed to live independently in harmony with the land: harnessing natural forms of energy, raising crops and keeping livestock, preserving foodstuffs, making beer and wine, basketry, carpentry, weaving, and much more. This new edition of The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It is the ultimate practical guide for realists and dreamers alike. | |
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