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Country Wisdom & Know-How Paperback – September 1, 2004

4.7 out of 5 stars 1,268 ratings
Reminiscent of the classic Whole Earth Catalog, Country Wisdom & Know-How is the most complete volume on every aspect of country and self-sustained living-from home and garden to barn and beyond. Compiled from the information in Storey Publishing's landmark series of "Country Wisdom Bulletins," this comprehensive collection offers step-by-step instructions on nearly 200 individual topics, providing everything you need to know about sustainability, self-sufficiency, homesteading, and DIY living. Topics include:
  • Animals: attracting backyard birds; building bathouses and birdfeeders; training and caring for cats and dogs; raising rabbits, ducks, and game birds; buying and selling horses; building chicken coops; beginning beekeeping; butchering livestock
  • Cooking: recipes for all seasons; the basics of bread baking; making cheese, butter, and yogurt; cooking game; preserving and pickling; homebrew equipment and making homemade wine
  • Crafts: stenciling, quilting, and basket-weaving; making wreaths, potpourri, and natural soaps; homemade gifts and decorations
  • Gardening: starting your garden; caring for flowers and shrubs; controlling weeds; landscaping; growing vegetables, root crops, fruits, berries, kitchen herbs, and more
  • Health and Wellbeing: natural home remedies; herbs for lifelong health; essential oils and aromatherapy; teas and recipes for a healthy diet
  • Home: simple home repairs; building furniture; restoring hardwood floors; making curtains; building fences, root cellars, and smokehouses
  • And much more!
Nearly 2,000 black-and-white illustrations, diagrams, and photographs complement these fascinating projects, and trusted advice on every page makes this the most thorough and reliable volume of its kind.
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    Wisdom & Know-How
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    488 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publisher
    Black Dog & Leventhal
  5. Publication date
    September 1, 2004
  6. Dimensions
    10.5 x 0.88 x 13.75 inches
  7. ISBN-10
    1579123686
  8. ISBN-13
    978-1579123680
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Black Dog & Leventhal (September 1, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 488 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1579123686
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1579123680
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.5 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.5 x 0.88 x 13.75 inches
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    We’re a community of doers who love to grow, build, create, and explore the world around us. We invite you to join us in the quest to enrich life through hands-on activities and experiences.

    Whether your passion is keeping chickens or riding horses, growing your own food or making your own herbal medicine, knitting scarves or building backyard furniture, spending time in nature or cooking with your kids, brewing beer or making paper, Storey is a place where you’ll find expert instruction, friendly encouragement, and a welcoming group of people who are committed to helping you gain the know-how and problem-solving skills you’re seeking.

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Customers praise the book's wealth of information, describing it as a huge collection of real wisdom, with one customer noting it covers everything from homeopathic remedies to digging potatoes.

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New edition - Print is still Microscopic
The book's subject matter is excellent and covers many topics. A previous edition of this book had 480 pages with very tiny print that was difficult to read, and it measured almost 14 x 11 inches and about 1 inch thick - too big for a typical bookshelf. This newer edition has been changed to 8 x 10 inches and 2 inches thick with 1,061 pages - same content, better for the bookshelf, but still with the same size font - 7 lines of print per vertical inch (see photo). Lots of good information, but you'll need a magnifying glass to read it.
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  • AMcho1962
    5.0 out of 5 stars Wow, who knew!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2016
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    This book is rather large with small print, so it's definitely PACKED with information. I read somewhere (on some prepper site) that it was a good book to buy. I'd love to be a prepper, but let's face it guys, that's expensive! With this I figure I can be a 'mini-prepper' because I'll only have to have food enough for a hard fall/winter season, and then this book comes in handy after that.

    There is SO much knowledge in here! I really thought it would be some anecdotal stuff with some handy things thrown in with cute phrases, but seriously! This is like a homesteading manual! It has sections on animals, including wild, domesticated, and livestock; cooking, general, breads, dairy, meats, preserving (includes canning, pickling, distilling); crafts for home, fpm nature, for gifts and decorations; gardening, general, flowers, vegetables, fruits, herbs, and specialty, also landscaping; health for beauty, home remedies, including recipes and elixirs; home DIY's for inside and outside; hardiness zone maps for gardening, pest-proofing, and even buying land in the country. Each major section of the book has darkened side panels, so one can easily navigate the plethora of information. Also, there are lots of illustrations to help those of us who are more visual in our learning abilities.

    I bought mine from Amazon. Their packaging was terrible! I ordered 2 and both arrived torn on the edges (yes, this is a paperback). However, it was so good and comprehensive, I ordered the survival book in this series (Survival Wisdom and Know-How), and I'll probably order others in the future. I seriously think it's worth it.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Must have
    Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2025
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    If you want to live off the land or want to build a library this book is a must have. Lots of useful knowledge
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  • R L Brown
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
    Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2024
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    Full of information gets down to the nitty gritty of how to used to have this book a long time ago lost in a house fire glad I was able to find it again you can learn a lot
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  • Mr Hytech
    4.0 out of 5 stars New edition - Print is still Microscopic
    Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2024
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    The book's subject matter is excellent and covers many topics. A previous edition of this book had 480 pages with very tiny print that was difficult to read, and it measured almost 14 x 11 inches and about 1 inch thick - too big for a typical bookshelf. This newer edition has been changed to 8 x 10 inches and 2 inches thick with 1,061 pages - same content, better for the bookshelf, but still with the same size font - 7 lines of print per vertical inch (see photo). Lots of good information, but you'll need a magnifying glass to read it.
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    Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2024
    The book's subject matter is excellent and covers many topics. A previous edition of this book had 480 pages with very tiny print that was difficult to read, and it measured almost 14 x 11 inches and about 1 inch thick - too big for a typical bookshelf. This newer edition has been changed to 8 x 10 inches and 2 inches thick with 1,061 pages - same content, better for the bookshelf, but still with the same size font - 7 lines of print per vertical inch (see photo). Lots of good information, but you'll need a magnifying glass to read it.
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  • Kiana Holmes
    5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't put it down!!!!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2013
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    This book is amazing!! I had been looking for a book like this for months and when it came in the mail I could not believe the size of it. It is HUGE!!! I could not put this book down, in fact I carried it with me for a couple of weeks so that at any spare moment I could look inside it. This is a cool book just to have around, I have shown it to several people 2 of which have went out and bought it!! This book is not as "survival of the outdoors" as it sounds, it is full ideas and facts. Ranging from how to make curtains, can food, cut and stack wood, skin and butcher meat, make rugs, build furniture... my personal favorite-> how to potty train your cat on the toilet!! There are recipes for food, tonics, animal medicine, and aromatherapy. I want to break it down and tell you but there are just too many things in here to try.
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  • Heather Patten
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very thorough
    Reviewed in the United States on December 20, 2023
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    Tons of useful information. More than I thought. From raising live stock to building a home. Gardening and land rights and recipes. My only complaint is the extremely small type. Need plenty of light and a magnifying glass.
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  • Brittany Sears
    5.0 out of 5 stars What a wonderful reference!
    Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2007
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    This is such a wonderful little book! Well, it's hardly little, but given that you *really could* live off the land based on the information inside, it's awfully condense. It contains information on everything from homeopathic remedies for minor health ailments to very, ahem, thorough instructions on how to kill livestock to making a scratching post for your cat! I received this as a graduation present from my favorite old hippie in the whole wide world, and I will keep it forever. It has already served me well troubleshooting my vegetable garden's pests, and I am confident that it will be an invaluable resource when I finally do get some space in the country. This book is a MUST HAVE for anyone who is sustainability-minded or just simply laments that their city upbringing has left them a bit less mindful of the Way Things Work than they would like.
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  • Amazon customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Tons of information
    Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2019
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    The book is large and the print is small - and there is no wasted space. This book is literally packed with information. Very pleased with this purchase. Lots of info on herbals too so that was a nice bonus. I love the practicality. I have another country living book that I don't really reference at all because it is rambling and disorganized. This book seems spot on.
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  • Paula Morales Merhy
    5.0 out of 5 stars Maravilhoso
    Reviewed in Brazil on June 8, 2021
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    Livro surpreendente! Muita informação, ilustrações! Essencial para quem gosta de vida simples e contato com a natureza.
    Só as letras achei pequenas. Mas vale muito a pena! Um super compêndio!
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  • Sue
    5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievable amount of knowledge for so little money!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 11, 2015
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    This is a great compendium of knowledge and for around 10 quid delivered, you can't beat it. The person who wrote the review about the low quality is obviously a fool! The paper is thin, but there's that much stuff to fit into one book that it would be even thicker- they also complained that it's too big! Yes it's big and what is the problem reading a book at the table? I've found some real treasures of information in this book and would recommend it to anyone with an interest in escaping the world of idiots and becoming a hermit!
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  • Gerri Toews
    5.0 out of 5 stars awesome book
    Reviewed in Canada on June 13, 2024
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    great book, very informative, large and easy to read with illustrations
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  • Eric John
    5.0 out of 5 stars 6 or 7 Books in One
    Reviewed in France on June 16, 2014
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    Country Wisdom really deserves like 30 stars– one for every book included. (And for this reason, it should be more expensive than it is, really).

    Okay, so I'm exaggerating a bit. But not much. There is SO much information here, you'l never get to it all. It's a country cook book, a book on bee keeping, a DIY book house/cabin construction, vegetable gardening, raising fowl, keeping/ training pets, preparing medicinal herbs, basket weaving, soap making, etc. etc. etc. The list is endless.

    As I understand it, this is basically the compilation of hundreds of books/newsletters published as a series by some hippy-farmers back in the 1970s. But don't be turned off by this, the knowledge is timeless and not dated in the least.

    It's printed in newsprint in an oversized format (like a Sunday paper), with loads of visual diagrams and written with very clear, easy too read - and often humorous - instructions.

    Think 'Cook's Illustrated', but for homesteading.

    Highly recommended if you're an a beginner, or even expert, homesteader. Will definitely be ordering more as gifts around Christmas time.
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  • The soloist
    5.0 out of 5 stars The most complete back to basics or country living book
    Reviewed in India on July 23, 2018
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    This book have everything you need to know about the country or back to basics life,highly illustrated and simple to follow,just go for this book...highly recommended
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