Country Wisdom Almanac

Editors of Storey Publishing

A follow-up to Black Dog's bestselling Country Wisdom and Know-How the Country Wisdom Almanac provides hundreds of ideas and methods for living the good and simple life plus information on weather gardening buying produce and cooking by season holidays frost dates moon phases and more. Divided into the four seasons and then organized into 373 individual tips the Country Wisdom Almanac presents a wide variety of ways to live a simpler more self-sustained life year round. Each season offers home-improvement ideas (wallpaper a room in the Fall or build a stone wall in the Spring) crafts (create gorgeous homemade decorations for Christmas Halloween or the Fourth of July) recipes (use seasonal produce to create fresh healthy meals) gardening advice (what and when to plant in order to get the maximum results from your land) and more. Also included is year-round advice on caring for pets creating your own health and beauty remedies canning and preserving food and more. Each season opens with a list of holidays and a guide to in-season produce. Appendices cover average weather by city and month frost dates and moon phases.>