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Country Wisdom & Know-How: Everything You Need to Know to Live Off the Land Kindle Edition

by Editors of Storey Publishing (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Country Wisdom & Know-How is the most complete volume on every aspect of country and self-sustained living, from home and garden to barn and beyond.

From Storey Publishing's landmark series Country Wisdom Bulletins, this comprehensive collection offers step-by-step instructions on nearly 200 individual topics, providing everything you need to know about sustainability, self-sufficiency, homesteading, and DIY living. Topics include:

  • Animals: attracting backyard birds; building bathhouses and birdfeeders; training and caring for cats and dogs; raising rabbits, ducks, and game birds; buying and selling horses; building chicken coops; beginning beekeeping;
  • Cooking: the basics of bread baking; making cheese, butter, and yogurt; cooking game; preserving and pickling; homebrewing and making homemade wine
  • Crafts: stenciling, quilting, and basket-weaving; making wreaths, potpourri, and natural soaps; homemade gifts and decorations
  • Gardening: starting your garden; caring for flowers and shrubs; controlling weeds; landscaping; growing vegetables, root crops, fruits, berries, kitchen herbs, and more
  • Health and Wellbeing: natural home remedies; herbs for lifelong health; essential oils and aromatherapy; teas and recipes for a healthy diet
  • Home: simple home repairs; building furniture; restoring hardwood floors; making curtains; building fences, root cellars, and smokehouses
  • And so much more!


With nearly 2,000 black-and-white illustrations, diagrams, and photographs, and trusted advice on every page, this is the most thorough and reliable volume of its kind.

This book is also a part of the Know-How series which includes other titles such as:

  • Woodworking Wisdom & Know-How
  • Natural Healing Wisdom & Know-How
  • Craft Wisdom & Know-How
  • Garden Wisdom & Know-How
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  3. Language
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    Black Dog & Leventhal
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    3 January 2017
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Storey Publishing, located in North Adams, Massachusetts, is one of the most respected and trusted publishers in the categories of country living, crafts, pets and animals.

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Storey Publishing, located in North Adams, Massachusetts, is one of the most respected and trusted publishers in the categories of country living, crafts, pets, and animals.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01MSZSM89
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Black Dog & Leventhal; Illustrated edition (3 January 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 38.8 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 489 pages
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    Welcome to Storey Publishing.

    We’re a community of doers who love to grow, build, create, and explore the world around us. We invite you to join us in the quest to enrich life through hands-on activities and experiences.

    Whether your passion is keeping chickens or riding horses, growing your own food or making your own herbal medicine, knitting scarves or building backyard furniture, spending time in nature or cooking with your kids, brewing beer or making paper, Storey is a place where you’ll find expert instruction, friendly encouragement, and a welcoming group of people who are committed to helping you gain the know-how and problem-solving skills you’re seeking.

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  • AMcho1962
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wow, who knew!
    Reviewed in the United States on 27 June 2016
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    This book is rather large with small print, so it's definitely PACKED with information. I read somewhere (on some prepper site) that it was a good book to buy. I'd love to be a prepper, but let's face it guys, that's expensive! With this I figure I can be a 'mini-prepper' because I'll only have to have food enough for a hard fall/winter season, and then this book comes in handy after that.

    There is SO much knowledge in here! I really thought it would be some anecdotal stuff with some handy things thrown in with cute phrases, but seriously! This is like a homesteading manual! It has sections on animals, including wild, domesticated, and livestock; cooking, general, breads, dairy, meats, preserving (includes canning, pickling, distilling); crafts for home, fpm nature, for gifts and decorations; gardening, general, flowers, vegetables, fruits, herbs, and specialty, also landscaping; health for beauty, home remedies, including recipes and elixirs; home DIY's for inside and outside; hardiness zone maps for gardening, pest-proofing, and even buying land in the country. Each major section of the book has darkened side panels, so one can easily navigate the plethora of information. Also, there are lots of illustrations to help those of us who are more visual in our learning abilities.

    I bought mine from Amazon. Their packaging was terrible! I ordered 2 and both arrived torn on the edges (yes, this is a paperback). However, it was so good and comprehensive, I ordered the survival book in this series (Survival Wisdom and Know-How), and I'll probably order others in the future. I seriously think it's worth it.
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  • Paula Morales Merhy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Maravilhoso
    Reviewed in Brazil on 8 June 2021
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    Livro surpreendente! Muita informação, ilustrações! Essencial para quem gosta de vida simples e contato com a natureza.
    Só as letras achei pequenas. Mas vale muito a pena! Um super compêndio!
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  • Sue
    5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievable amount of knowledge for so little money!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 July 2015
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    This is a great compendium of knowledge and for around 10 quid delivered, you can't beat it. The person who wrote the review about the low quality is obviously a fool! The paper is thin, but there's that much stuff to fit into one book that it would be even thicker- they also complained that it's too big! Yes it's big and what is the problem reading a book at the table? I've found some real treasures of information in this book and would recommend it to anyone with an interest in escaping the world of idiots and becoming a hermit!
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  • Gerri Toews
    5.0 out of 5 stars awesome book
    Reviewed in Canada on 13 June 2024
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    great book, very informative, large and easy to read with illustrations
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  • Eric John
    5.0 out of 5 stars 6 or 7 Books in One
    Reviewed in France on 16 June 2014
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    Country Wisdom really deserves like 30 stars– one for every book included. (And for this reason, it should be more expensive than it is, really).

    Okay, so I'm exaggerating a bit. But not much. There is SO much information here, you'l never get to it all. It's a country cook book, a book on bee keeping, a DIY book house/cabin construction, vegetable gardening, raising fowl, keeping/ training pets, preparing medicinal herbs, basket weaving, soap making, etc. etc. etc. The list is endless.

    As I understand it, this is basically the compilation of hundreds of books/newsletters published as a series by some hippy-farmers back in the 1970s. But don't be turned off by this, the knowledge is timeless and not dated in the least.

    It's printed in newsprint in an oversized format (like a Sunday paper), with loads of visual diagrams and written with very clear, easy too read - and often humorous - instructions.

    Think 'Cook's Illustrated', but for homesteading.

    Highly recommended if you're an a beginner, or even expert, homesteader. Will definitely be ordering more as gifts around Christmas time.
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