You can keep your "country plumbing" working day after day, year after year. Gerry Hartigan who has been installing and servicing septic tanks for twenty-five years, says "I'm still amazed to find out how little people actually know about their home sewage disposal systems. As Bismarck said, 'The less people know about politics and making sausages, the better they sleep at night.' Perhaps this is also true of septic tanks." However, with increasing numbers of people moving to rural areas, it's more important than ever to understand more about what is generally referred to as "country plumbing."

Country Plumbing: Living With a Septic System

Hartigan, Gerry

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Euell Gibbons was one of the few people in this country to devote a considerable part of his life to the adventure of “living off the land.” He sought out wild plants all over North America and made them into delicious dishes. His book includes recipes for vegetable and casserole dishes, breads, cakes, muffins and twenty different pies. He also shows how to make numerous jellies, jams, teas, and wines, and how to sweeten them with wild honey or homemade maple syrup.

Stalking the Wild Asparagus

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

GIBBONS, Euell

Cooking Education & Reference

For those of us who yearn for simpler times, this is a book that reminds us how difficult the simpler things could be. Dictated from the memoirs of Walter Needham's grandfather, it gives brief and colorful descriptions of carpentry, farming, animal husbandry and domestic sciences, and is an accurate picture of life in New England in the 1800s. Library Journal describes it as "wise in the self-sufficient ways of country in the last century." (Library Journal)

A Book of Country Things

History

Walter Needham

Americas

First published in 1933 by the author, this book has gained the stature of a much-loved gardening classic. Senator Aiken love the native flowers of the woods, fields and streams of his youth, and he sought to conserve them by propagating them in his nursery in Putney, Vermont. In this book the reader can learn the secrets and techniques Aiken painstakingly developed to raise more than 250 species of native wildflowers and ferns in his own gardens.

Pioneering With Wildflowers

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

George David Aiken

Gardening & Landscape Design

Barns, Sheds and Outbuildings: Placement, Design and Construction

Although it harks from a time before power tools, electricity, and gasoline, this book abounds in simple ideas that rural householders still find useful today.Barns, poultry houses, piggeries, corn cribs, ice houses, spring houses, granaries, smokehouses, root cellars and even kennels and birdhouses are included in this fascinating compendium from days gone by.

Barns, Sheds & Outbuildings: Placement, Design and Construction

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Here is a collection of 234 ways to create traditional Yankee-style dishes--covered and uncovered, from quick and easy to masterpieces--for festive occasions with family and friends.

Potluck Plain & Fancy: Our Favorite Recipes from "Quick 'N' Easy" to Masterpieces

Peery, Susan Mahnke

Peery, Gordon

In the last few years, interest in the scythe has grown remarkably; and so have the sales of The Scythe Book. Now Peter Vido, who has written two outstanding articles for Small Farmer's Journal on the use of the scythe, has contributed an addendum for this book on the practical use of the scythe based on his own extensive research and experience.

The Scythe Book: Mowing Hay, Cutting Weeds, and Harvesting Small Grains, With Hand Tools

TRESEMER, DAVID

Burning wood for heat can benefit your household in many ways, especially if you live outside the city. When petroleum and natural gas prices climb, the economic benefit of woodburning is clear. Ass to that independence for outside forces, and heating with wood can bring you genuine stress relief. If the electricity goes off, you stay warm. And you have that feeling of security as you look out the window at a neatly stacked pile of firewood, your “savings account,” ready for a cold winter’s night. Dirk Thomas, experienced woodburner and chimney weep, is the perfect guide to the ins and outs of the many ways available to burn wood for heat. He discusses the fuel value of various woods, how to buy firewood and get the most heat from it, the environmental impact of woodburning and a variety of chimney and flue arrangements. Throughout, the emphasis is on woodburing safely. Even knowledgeable woodburners will gain from his detailed descriptions of wood burning installations, which are based on the latest codes and recommendations from the U.S. and Canada.

The Woodburner's Companion : Practical Ways of Heating With Wood

Thomas, Dirk

Home Improvement & Design

Drawing on five generations of family tradition as stonemasons in his Native Scotland, Ian Cramb created this masterful work to pass on his knowledge and experience to craftsmen who wish to learn the ancient, but still necessary, principles of the stonemason's art.

The Art of the Stonemason

Ian Cramb

Cal 96 Vermont Life

Unknown, Author

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