Country Life


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Promoting ecological awareness, this practical guide, richly illustrated, details how to achieve real country living and conveys the pleasures and benefits of small-scale, high-quality crop and livestock production. COUNTRY LIFE offers real-life options for people who yearn to be self-sufficient or who simply want a more fulfilling "house in the country". Over 700 illustrations.




Lost Country Life


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How English country folk lived, worked, threshed, thatched, rolled fleece, milled corn, brewed mead, and carried on all the other tasks and trades of daily rural life.




Country Life


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Living the Country Life


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Shows a country-style approach to interior design, looks at rural homes, antique furniture, and country crafts, and offers suggestions on planning a garden




A North Country Life


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"A collection of essays, organized by the changing of the seasons, about the author's strong connection to his family, friends, and the northern outdoors"--Provided by publisher.




To Eat


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A celebration of the authors' shared horticultural and culinary lives in their southern Vermont garden explores their views about living in harmony with nature while tracing a year of enjoying home-grown seasonal edibles.




The Country Life Cookery Book


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A classic of seasonal cookery, these recipes are arranged by month and are profoundly seasonable.




Mrs. Fytton's Country Life


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Angela Fytton -- wonderwife and supermother -- has been unceremoniously dumped by her husband. Like many a good wife before her, she has been replaced for a younger model. Now, divorced but determined, she rediscovers the iron in her soul and decides to fight. She moves to the country, leaving her entirely selfish teenage children with their father and his sweet new bride, and waits. One day, she knows, her husband will return. Meanwhile, she yields herself up to the notion that country life is pure and good and country people are next to angels -- and finds that this is very far from the truth....




Modern Homesteading


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Once upon a time, people had a real connection with the land. Instead of being mere consumers, they were producers and makers. Traditional skills were learned to eliminate a reliance on others, enabling the self-sufficiency that's at the heart of the Do-It-Yourself movement. And this artisanal wisdom was passed on to family and friends.