Used Book in Good Condition</br></br>Product Description</br></br>The bestselling resource for modern homesteading?? growing and preserving foods?? and raising chickens?? <i>The Encyclopedia of Country Living </i>includes how to  cultivate a garden?? buy land?? bake bread?? raise farm animals?? make  sausage?? can peaches?? milk a goat?? grow herbs?? churn butter?? build a  chicken coop?? catch a pig?? cook on a wood stove?? and much?? much more. This comprehensive resource is the most authoritative guide available to a sustainable lifestyle and living off of the land.<br><br>Carla Emery started writing <i>The Encyclopedia of Country Living</i> in 1969 during the back-to-the-land movement of that time. She continued to add content and refine the information over the years?? and the book went from a self-published mimeographed document to a book of 928 pages.<br><br>This 40th Anniversary Edition reflects the most up-to-date resource information and the most personal version of th