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Abigail R. Gehring is the author or editor of more than a dozen books including Back to Basics, Homesteading, and The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Living. She lives with her husband, two kids, and Siberian husky in an 1800s farm-stead in southern Vermont.

Opere di Abigail R. Gehring

The Magic of Mini Pies (2013) 57 copie

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita
20th Century
Sesso
female
Nazione (per mappa)
USA
Luogo di residenza
Marlboro, Vermont, USA
New York, New York, USA

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Wonderfully eclectic and informative, this is a book I grew up with and have continued to enjoy.
 
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lukeallister | 4 altre recensioni | May 14, 2020 |
This is a pretty fun book to read. Easy to read, super easy to read. Lots of websites to get you started if you're interested in some of the Odd Jobs Gehring proposes in her book.

I would say that I wish she had gone into some jobs like yearbook photographer, vending machine stocker, that kind of thing. Maybe they aren't odd enough?
 
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wendithegray | May 1, 2017 |
This book is full of superficial information on a great number (far too great a number) of topics, many of which have very little to do with homesteading per se. Gehring does admit to a nonstandard definition in which homesteading means pretty much anything you want it to, thus the large amount of fluff included in the book (yoga? aromatherapy? really?). I'm adept in a number of crafts, but again, although I can dig clay from a riverbank, fashion a pot and fire it in a handbuilt kiln (which you will NOT learn in this book), I don't see pottery making as a part of homesteading; and (unless you can go sheep-to-shawl as the saying is), I would deem knitting as a homesteading skill only in a peripheral way. Even so, it would take a book as large as this on any of these specialized topics to make a start. Meanwhile, the book suffers from a lack of space to cover vital core homesteading topics such as gardening - and, in the case of gardening, there is a willingness to accept chemical solutions unquestioningly. I'm writing this review without actual access to the book, which I borrowed from the library and within 20 minutes realized would be of no help whatsoever to our family homesteading endeavours.

Taken as a book of aspirations to read about natural living and dream that you could be a homesteader someday, it's not bad (although I would still take issue with the chemical gardening). But what it is not, is a practical book for people actually involved in homesteading.
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muumi | May 15, 2016 |
Great beginning book on self-sufficiency, it covers all the basic needs.
 
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TheYodamom | Jan 29, 2016 |

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28
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Utenti
1,587
Popolarità
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Voto
3.8
Recensioni
9
ISBN
72

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