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Posted: Jul/14/2008 12:44 AM PST
Hi! I'm new here, so I apologize if this topic has already been brought up! Has anyone read this book? I read it this Spring and really loved it. I've always been a hobby-gardener, but after reading it, we put in a vegetable garden and an herb garden. I've learned to can and preserve, and am looking into getting some broiler chickens to add to our laying flock. It's not much, but it's a start. Anyway, I wondered if anyone else had read it and what you thought. 
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Posted: Jul/14/2008 5:16 AM PST
Its new to me. You must live on a farm? Bill |
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Posted: Jul/14/2008 7:40 AM PST
No actually, we just have about an acre w/ the house, but it is in the country. Our garden is pretty small, maybe 12' x 12'. We have a flock of about 13 chickens right now, they just run around the yard then go into the pen at night. I wish we had a full fledged farm! You should really read the book. It has a lot of interesting information about mass food production, CAFOs, politics of commercial farming, etc., along with practical gardening information, but in a very readable, enjoyable format. |
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Posted: Jul/14/2008 7:55 AM PST
Haven't read that book though I will have to look it up in the library. Have you ever read the Back to Basics from Reader's Digest? It is a book about getting back to the basics of living learning American arts and crafts, everything from building your own house to canning, making tools to keeping your family fed with fresh fish using a pool, anything about homesteading and using what you can off the land. Really interesting. I too have just an acre and am in the country. We have a garden, kind of spread all over the place, and herbs too. I would love to have chickens, though I haven't convinced DH yet! |
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Posted: Jul/14/2008 9:27 AM PST
Sounds like an interesting book. I'll have to look for it! |
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Posted: Jul/14/2008 10:02 AM PST
What is the book about? I am assuming it's non-fiction. |
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Posted: Jul/14/2008 12:10 PM PST
couldnt find one threads on but think i may have found readers digest one if so i may post a link to it (should stop workin like 90 days after last download) --theres this p2p site i know about but im NOT linkin from there (well i cant exactally freely get all the witchy books i want my mom would FREAK if i even thought of it ohh the things thios computer could tell you about me) |
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Posted: Jul/14/2008 5:28 PM PST
Libraries have the Back to Basics book. I haven't heard of the other one. I'll have to take a look for it. |
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Posted: Jul/14/2008 7:25 PM PST
good fer the libaries i kinda live on my computer lol |
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Posted: Jul/14/2008 11:59 PM PST
The chickens are actually dh's "pet" project! The book is by Barbara Kingsolver and it is about her and her husband and two daughters moving from Arizona to Virginia. Their goal was to live for one year only eating food that they raised or grew themselves, or was locally grown within 70 miles (I think) from their farm. They had background in it and already had a home there, so it wasn't like this radical pilgrimage or something, it was just them trying to do their part for the environment, their own health and the local economy. Her husband and oldest daughter have "articles" throughout the book about various things, political points of view, recipes, meal ideas, etc. I will be sure to look into the Reader's Digest book - that's exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for. I may sound crazy, but I'm convinced we are going to have a depression soon, and I want to be prepared to provide for my family when push comes to shove. Thanks for the information and I hope you all check out this book. It really is awesome! |
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