Granny,
The way this thread is coming along reminds me of a set of books I bought back in the early 80’s called either the Foxfire, or Firefox.
Like this thread it was chock full of great oldtimer ways to grow stuff, build stuff, old Wisdom, health tips from the past, just like we are doing here!
Dang it! My house burnt to the ground in ‘89, and I lost my beloved library (which brought a tear to my eye) so I no longer have them.
This is turning out just as good! See? Prayer IS Powerful!
I am so sorry that you lost both a home and books, that is almost more than one person can bare.
It is Foxfire and parts of them are found here and there on the internet.
I did not have the entire set and think that only one of mine is left.
Yes, Foxfire is the goal that I had in mind, when I started this thread, there is so much one can learn and no way to learn it all in one lifetime.
We need to think of the things we need to know and dig into them.
I fought having my teens look or act like a hippy, those were awful years......except that it was the hippies who did more to bring back the survival on nothing line of thinking.
Many of the fine articles we read today, are based on a hippy article.
I found this site a couple days ago and have not had the time to check it out, thought at the very least, it would be a good one to google, not for the book, but for the many subjects on the book list, take a look at the link:
Hi all, found this website
http://www.villageearth.org/Publications/ATLibrary/ATLBookList.html
It’s a CD based collection of books about appropriate technology etc, ag, how to, the list is extensive.
1050 books all up.
Sounds amazing to me, but it is pricey. $500 plus.
And if you can’t use a PC, then a waste of money.
I’m thinking I’ll buy it. The ones I really like, i’ll get printed and bound while I still can.
Here is the list.
continues and it is a list too big for even me to post.
[Please note, it is the blog owner talking about buying the books, not I....]
Thank you for the kind words, but it is you and the others that have made this list work.
My thanks to all of you.