Country Wisdom Almanac: 373 Tips, Hints, Crafts, Recipes, Home Improvements, and Homemade Remedies for Living the Simple Life All Year Round: 373 ... and Homemade Remedies (Wisdom and Know-How) - Softcover

Of Storey, Editors

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1579127746 ISBN 13: 9781579127749

Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2008

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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"

Synopsis:

A follow-up to Black Dog's bestselling "Country Wisdom and Know-How" (2004; 978-157912-368-0), this new book provides 373 hints, tips, and activities for living the simpler life all year round, plus information on weather, gardening and cooking by season, holidays, frost dates, moon phases, and more. Divided into the four seasons of the year and then organized into 373 individual tips, "Country Wisdom Almanac" presents all kinds of ways to live a simpler, more self-sustained life, year round. There are home-improvement ideas (wallpaper a room in the Autumn or build a stone wall in the Spring), crafts (create gorgeous home-made decorations for Christmas or Halloween), recipes (use all the fruits and vegetables of the season to create the freshest seasonal meals), gardening advice (what to plant and when to plant it in order to get the maximum results from your land), and more.

About this edition

• Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1579127746
• ISBN 13: 9781579127749
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 316