A Homemade Life - Feeding the Soil

Ooh! This book looks really good! Have any of you read it?

Here’s the description:

One day Woginrich, a Web designer, threw her hands in the air and vowed to change her life. She was going to be more self-sufficient: produce her own food, make her own clothing, live a simpler and more fulfilling life. Easier said than done, she soon learned. This amiable memoir charts her course to self-sufficiency, documenting her successes and disappointments, exploring what it means to make the shift from consumer to producer. It’s almost two books in one: each chapter (for example, the one in which she tells us about her early misadventures in chicken raising) is accompanied by a brief guide to its subject (in this case, she talks about the importance of selecting a breed, choosing the right food, and providing a proper, poultry-friendly environment). The book, therefore, is simultaneously a lighthearted fish-out-of-water, city-girl-turns-homesteader memoir and a more serious primer on making a lifestyle change. Perfect for environmentally conscious, do-it-yourself readers.

6 Comments

Anonymous

September 21, 2011 at 12:28 pm Reply

i've read it, and i liked it a lot! she also has a blog coldantlerfarm.com, which is really good and really honest. she doesn't sugarcoat when things don't go right, and has a really fun, casual style of writing.