Recommend me a book, please.

[dragonlaurel]

You can read the Foxfire books online for free!

How about Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz?

Do you have The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery? I love that book, and even though I read it cover to cover, I re-read portions many nights a week. Sometimes I just let the book fall open where it will and read!

I tried to read all of them that way, but 2 of the links went to 1 book - so one of the series was missing.

 

[bibliophile birds]

bibliophile--I'm giggling over the fact that with a name like yours we could expect perfectly italicized, underlined and authored book suggestions such as yours.

don't forget the helpful links to Amazon! i can't help myself sometimes. i hate capitol letters but i love correct book references... it's a sickness.

 

[freemotion]

I can't figure out how to do that on this forum....underline, etc.

 

[hwillm1977]

I know I'm being difficult but I struggle with buying books. I guess what I'm looking for is a book that has info that is not easily searchable on the internet, one that I can learn from I guess in more depth than I can learn from the internet. I'm not helping I know.

something that fits in with SS living, either health wise, or homesteading.

I absolutely LOVE 'Four season harvest' by Elliot Coleman...

It will teach you how to harvest fresh veggies from your garden, even when there's 3 feet of snow on the ground and it's written by a guy living in Maine so his climate is similar to ours in Canada.

 

[miss_thenorth]

I know I'm being difficult but I struggle with buying books. I guess what I'm looking for is a book that has info that is not easily searchable on the internet, one that I can learn from I guess in more depth than I can learn from the internet. I'm not helping I know.

something that fits in with SS living, either health wise, or homesteading.

I absolutely LOVE 'Four season harvest' by Elliot Coleman...

It will teach you how to harvest fresh veggies from your garden, even when there's 3 feet of snow on the ground and it's written by a guy living in Maine so his climate is similar to ours in Canada.

I have this one waiting for me at the library--they called me today that it is in. I have The Encyclopedia to Country Living, I have a canning book.

But thanks!, I have some books to look up now, ( some conveniently linked and italicised ) So now off to do some more research. thanks for the suggestions.

Oh and if the one I have at the library is a keeper, I might consider that. that is usually the way I operate--check it out first (for free) before I decide if i want to spend the money.

 

[bibliophile birds]

I can't figure out how to do that on this forum....underline, etc.

you just need brackets like these [ ]

so underline is {u}words you want underlined{/u} which turns out words you want underlined (but use the brackets instead of the whatever they're called that i used in the example.

bold = b
italics = i
picture = img

to create a link: {url=the website you want to go to}name of the website/whatever you want it to say{/url}. so {url=http://www.sufficientself.com}Sufficient Self{/url} makes Sufficient Self.

 

[freemotion]

OK, my brain just shut down........

 

[okiegirl1]

You can read the Foxfire books online for free!

How about Wild Fermentation by Sandor Katz?

Do you have The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery? I love that book, and even though I read it cover to cover, I re-read portions many nights a week. Sometimes I just let the book fall open where it will and read!

I bought this from Amazone along with Storey's Basic Country Skills. LOVE them both! love, love love

 

[me&thegals]

Oh and if the one I have at the library is a keeper, I might consider that. that is usually the way I operate--check it out first (for free) before I decide if i want to spend the money.

That's exactly how I do it, too

 

[savingdogs]

I purchased Storey's Basic Country Skills A Practical Guide to Self Reliance last year. I initially scanned it and enjoyed reading it but have been surprised how useful it has been over this past year.
It is designed for us, those people who want to be more self sufficient. It covers a little of everything with a chapter written by an expert in the field, or at least a darn good opinion. It covers everything from home maintenance and improvement, garden, yard and orchard, country cooking and stocking up, reference guide for small scale farming and the various animals, and includes detailed ideas on how to build sheds, deter predators, build chicken roosters, and millions of other small but important things. Most ideas are written from the viewpoint of you can build this yourself easily and lots of drawings are included.

Nothing goes into great detail and you will probably want another reference before delving deeply into a new venture in addition to the information provided here, but we found that in each category there was great advice to be gleaned, at least in the chapters we have personal experience in so far.

I am very glad we have this as a country reference however.

My other standard is my Sunset Garden Book and my Joy of Cooking. Those two books have always been staples of my library for years.