Country Wisdom Almanac: 373 Tips, Crafts, Home Improvements, Recipes, and Homemade Remedies [Paperback]

Editors of Storey Publishing's Country Wisdom Bulletins (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 14, 2008

A follow-up to Black Dog's bestselling Country Wisdom and Know-How, the Country Wisdom Almanac provides hundreds of ideas and methods for living the good and simple life, plus information on weather, gardening, buying produce and cooking by season, holidays, frost dates, moon phases, and more.

Divided into the four seasons and then organized into 373 individual tips, the Country Wisdom Almanac presents a wide variety of ways to live a simpler, more self-sustained life year round. Each season offers home-improvement ideas (wallpaper a room in the Fall or build a stone wall in the Spring), crafts (create gorgeous homemade decorations for Christmas, Halloween, or the Fourth of July), recipes (use seasonal produce to create fresh, healthy meals), gardening advice (what and when to plant in order to get the maximum results from your land), and more.

Also included is year-round advice on caring for pets, creating your own health and beauty remedies, canning and preserving food, and more. Each season opens with a list of holidays and a guide to in-season produce. Appendices cover average weather by city and month, frost dates, and moon phases.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Divided into the four seasons, Country Wisdom Almanac presents 373 ways to live a more self-sustained life year round. Each season offers home improvement ideas (build a stone wall in the Spring, clean hardwood floors in the Fall), crafts (create gorgeous homemade decorations for Christmas, Halloween or the Fourth of July), recipes (use seasonal produce to create fresh, healthy meals), gardening advice (what and when to plant in order to get the maximum results from your land), and so much more including caring for pets and farm animals, creating your own health and beauty remedies, and canning and preserving food

Also included:
• All major holidays by season, day and date
• Average daily temperatures and rainfall by month for 74 North American cities
• A complete list of fresh produce, organized by season
• Vernal and Autumnal equinoxes through 2020
• Summer and Winter solstices through 2020
• Moon phases through 2020

About the Author

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.

Product Details

• Paperback: 316 pages
• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers (February 14, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1579127746
• ISBN-13: 978-1579127749
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,400 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #45 in Books > Education & Reference > Almanacs & Yearbooks > Almanacs

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just what the World Needs, December 16, 2008

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Slash X. Mann "TeamSlash" (Ardmore, OK) - See all my reviews
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This is what we could all use some of. Knowledge of simple lifestyles and the way to use it. I am just going to try a little everyday to simplify my life and little by little I am going to get back to the basics.
This book is just what I need to help me gt to where I want to go.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Phenomenal, November 15, 2010

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Ryan C. Parfait (Houma, LA United States) - See all my reviews
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all i can say is that i bought this for my wife a year or 2 ago and she still can't put it down, a lot of crafty, creative, and healthy ways of living in this book i'd recomend it to anyone, in fact I have since i've givin it to her! You will enjoy it even if it's a gift for the wife or husband. GET IT!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful information!, November 19, 2009

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M. Caldwell (Rural, Tennessee) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Country Wisdom Almanac: 373 Tips, Crafts, Home Improvements, Recipes, and Homemade Remedies (Paperback)

My Wife and I have read this little tome of hints and suggestions and intend to keep it handy and to put many of its finer points to the test. We found it to be a broad based, handy reference with much useful information.