Review:I bought this book because it relates specifically to backyard production. The information is up to date and does a fantastic job detailing the entire production process. It is written in layman terminology. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in raising their first farm animals. Read more

Review:I really enjoyed reading this, gave me insights and Ideas on how to handle my firewood better. and I'm convinced that this kind of renewable biomass used for heat, along with new style clean burning stoves is a big part of our energy future. Read more

Review:To me this well written book was so enjoyable from beginning to the end; it is the way it was and I almost found myself envying this family. It took me back to basics and a time I remembered so well and identified with their way of life. Read more

Review:I very much like the brevity of each chapter since each chapter contains facts I either did not know or have forgotten. Due to the relative shortness of each chapter the new information is not overwhelming. The book confirms my awe of nature. I am still reading it, I have not finished it yet, and I am thrilled each time I pick it up. Read more

Review:Not happy about having to write my very personal reaction to this book in such a public forum, but am motivated by my intense desire to communicate how important the book has been for me, and possibly could be for others.
Like I believe many people, I find myself often addicted to a particular handheld, mindless electronic game. Some days, I spend hours on this. I do it to cope with stress. Traumatized as a child, I found that if I created rushes of adrenalin, by creating dangerous situation ... Read more

Review:Early in Eating Meat, Foer shares an anecdote of his starving Jewish grandmother, fleeing the Nazis and offered pork by a kind peasant. She is dying of starvation but rejects the pork, explaining, "If nothing matters, there's nothing to save." While Foer loves his grandmother, the story-teller, the life-giver, and the lover of kosher beef and chicken, he uses her quote as a sort of epitaph throughout his book to pave the way for his conversion to vegetarianism, a conversion that separates him fr... Read more

Review:Haven't finished reading the book but the research and detail put in a form that creates a story makes it good reading. Unfortunately it is so very sad to read about the horrors of war and the affect on innocent animals and people Read more

Review:This book is the real deal. It has everything you could possible need to become a first class expert on the grill. We love the rubs so much we make them to fill a canister and have them ready for any meal. Every member of my family uses this cookbook. Read more

Review:The information contained in the "apple" section is alone worth the price of this book. The section is as much a history of westward expansion, homesteading, and early American life as it is about why the apple has flourished in our country. The author develops a wonderful new perspective on the human relationship with the plants of this book. I enjoyed reading it. Read more

Review:Researched in great detail, this story is ... gripping, distressing, engrossing, relentlessly horrifying. It was like I couldn't look away from this awful thing, yet I could only deal with one chapter at a sitting; it was just heartbreaking. A "perfect storm" of fire conditions. And you can scarcely believe that anyone managed to survive. (The author's great-grandfather did not.) Along the way, you get an education in weather, late-1800s logging practices, fire physics, human behavior in crisis,... Read more