Author: Rachel Peden
Publisher: Quarry Books
ISBN: 9780253221612
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Rural Free, first published in 1961, beautifully conveys the joys of family life on an Indiana farm. Marked by the slow pace and rich variety of seasonal change, Rachel Peden's narrative offers an authentic month-by-month chronicle of her family's daily adventures. Today, as the slow-food movement gathers support and more urban dwellers return to the land to plant roots again in honest soil, Peden's stories of country life and her lessons on sustainability, frugality, and wastefulness gain a special resonance. Rural Free will be a source of inspiration for all who rejoice in rural virtues and the spiritual freedom of country life.
Rural Free
Author: Rachel Peden
Publisher: Quarry Books
ISBN: 9780253221612
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Rural Free, first published in 1961, beautifully conveys the joys of family life on an Indiana farm. Marked by the slow pace and rich variety of seasonal change, Rachel Peden's narrative offers an authentic month-by-month chronicle of her family's daily adventures. Today, as the slow-food movement gathers support and more urban dwellers return to the land to plant roots again in honest soil, Peden's stories of country life and her lessons on sustainability, frugality, and wastefulness gain a special resonance. Rural Free will be a source of inspiration for all who rejoice in rural virtues and the spiritual freedom of country life.
Publisher: Quarry Books
ISBN: 9780253221612
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Rural Free, first published in 1961, beautifully conveys the joys of family life on an Indiana farm. Marked by the slow pace and rich variety of seasonal change, Rachel Peden's narrative offers an authentic month-by-month chronicle of her family's daily adventures. Today, as the slow-food movement gathers support and more urban dwellers return to the land to plant roots again in honest soil, Peden's stories of country life and her lessons on sustainability, frugality, and wastefulness gain a special resonance. Rural Free will be a source of inspiration for all who rejoice in rural virtues and the spiritual freedom of country life.
The Farm Wife's Almanac
Author: Shari Wagner
Publisher: Dreamseeker Poetry
ISBN: 9781680270150
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
"A collection of poems written in the voice of a Mennonite woman living in LaGrange County."--
Publisher: Dreamseeker Poetry
ISBN: 9781680270150
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
"A collection of poems written in the voice of a Mennonite woman living in LaGrange County."--
The Old Farmer's Almanac 2022
Author: Old Farmer’s Almanac
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 1571988955
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Happy New Almanac Year! It’s time to celebrate the 230th edition of The Old Farmer’s Almanac! Long recognized as North America’s most-beloved and best-selling annual, this handy yellow book fulfills every need and expectation as a calendar of the heavens, a time capsule of the year, an essential reference that reads like a magazine. Always timely, topical, and distinctively “useful, with a pleasant degree of humor,” the Almanac is consulted daily throughout the year by users from all walks of life. The 2022 edition contains the fun facts, predictions, and feature items that have made it a cultural icon: traditionally 80 percent–accurate weather forecasts; notable astronomical events and time-honored astrological dates; horticultural, culinary, fashion, and other trends; historical hallmarks; best fishing days; time- and money-saving garden advice; recipes for delicious dishes; facts on folklore, farmers, home remedies, and husbandry; amusements and contests; plus too much more to mention—all in the inimitable Almanac style that has charmed and educated readers since 1792.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 1571988955
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Happy New Almanac Year! It’s time to celebrate the 230th edition of The Old Farmer’s Almanac! Long recognized as North America’s most-beloved and best-selling annual, this handy yellow book fulfills every need and expectation as a calendar of the heavens, a time capsule of the year, an essential reference that reads like a magazine. Always timely, topical, and distinctively “useful, with a pleasant degree of humor,” the Almanac is consulted daily throughout the year by users from all walks of life. The 2022 edition contains the fun facts, predictions, and feature items that have made it a cultural icon: traditionally 80 percent–accurate weather forecasts; notable astronomical events and time-honored astrological dates; horticultural, culinary, fashion, and other trends; historical hallmarks; best fishing days; time- and money-saving garden advice; recipes for delicious dishes; facts on folklore, farmers, home remedies, and husbandry; amusements and contests; plus too much more to mention—all in the inimitable Almanac style that has charmed and educated readers since 1792.
The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac
Author: Sharma Shields
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 162779199X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A family patriarch is consumed by the hunt for the mythical, elusive sasquatch he encountered in his youth -- a quest that soon morphs into a desire to slay the beast.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 162779199X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
A family patriarch is consumed by the hunt for the mythical, elusive sasquatch he encountered in his youth -- a quest that soon morphs into a desire to slay the beast.
Mary Bacon's World
Author: Ruth Facer
Publisher: Threshold Press Limited
ISBN: 9781903152287
Category : Hampshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Mary Bacon was an eighteenth century farmer's wife whose life was spent in the north of Hampshire, Austen country, where she was a contemporary of the famous writer. Ruth Facer unexpectedly discovered Mary's 300-page farm ledger, filled with anything that caught Mary's fancy: this book is a fascinating account of this document's contents.
Publisher: Threshold Press Limited
ISBN: 9781903152287
Category : Hampshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Mary Bacon was an eighteenth century farmer's wife whose life was spent in the north of Hampshire, Austen country, where she was a contemporary of the famous writer. Ruth Facer unexpectedly discovered Mary's 300-page farm ledger, filled with anything that caught Mary's fancy: this book is a fascinating account of this document's contents.
Poor Richard's Almanac
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Country Wisdom Almanac
Author: Editors of Storey Publishing's Country Wisdom Bulletins
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1603762817
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The bestselling 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.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1603762817
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The bestselling 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.
A Sand County Almanac
Author: Aldo Leopold
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0197500269
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with a call for changing our understanding of land management.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0197500269
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
First published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with a call for changing our understanding of land management.
Bass Angler’s Almanac
Author: John Weiss
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1461746272
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
With more than 650 tips total, the Almanac is an indispensable reference that will help any bass angler improve his or her fishing success quickly and significantly. An easy-to-read reference and guide, the Almanac is loaded with detailed illustrations and photographs. And it's packed with tips and tidbits that the author has picked up over a lifetime of bass fishing. In it, Weiss examines all types of bass fishing, including: largemouth, smallmouth, and spotted bass biology; tips on reading maps and using sonar; habits of bass in natural lakes, man-made reservoirs, rivers, streams, and strip-mine pits; how weather affects bass; tips on selecting rods, reels, and lines; how to fish live and artificial baits, jigs, soft plastic lures, weedless spoons and jigging spoons; trolling tips that work.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1461746272
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
With more than 650 tips total, the Almanac is an indispensable reference that will help any bass angler improve his or her fishing success quickly and significantly. An easy-to-read reference and guide, the Almanac is loaded with detailed illustrations and photographs. And it's packed with tips and tidbits that the author has picked up over a lifetime of bass fishing. In it, Weiss examines all types of bass fishing, including: largemouth, smallmouth, and spotted bass biology; tips on reading maps and using sonar; habits of bass in natural lakes, man-made reservoirs, rivers, streams, and strip-mine pits; how weather affects bass; tips on selecting rods, reels, and lines; how to fish live and artificial baits, jigs, soft plastic lures, weedless spoons and jigging spoons; trolling tips that work.