Foxfire 11: The Old Home Place, Wild Plant Uses, Preserving and Cooking Food, Hunting Stories, Fishing, More Affairs of Plain Living

The Foxfire Series #11

by Foxfire Fund Inc. (Series Editor), Kaye Carver Collins (Editor), Lacy Hunter (Editor)

First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the old-fashioned way, or learn the art of successful moonshining, The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center had a contact who could teach you how with clear, step-by-step instructions.

This eleventh volume celebrates the rituals and recipes of the Appalachian homeplace, including a one-hundred page section on herbal remedies, and segments about planting and growing a garden, preserving and pickling, smoking and salting, honey making, beekeeping, and fishing, as well as hundreds of the kind of spritied firsthand narrative accounts from Appalachian community members that exemplify the Foxfire style. Much more than "how-to" books, the Foxfire series is a publishing phenomenon and a way of life, teaching creative self-sufficiency, the art of natural remedies, home crafts, and other country folkways, fascinating to everyone interested in rediscovering the virtues of simple life.

Genres: Nonfiction, History, Reference, Crafts

336 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1999

Reviews

[Latasha · Rating 4 out of 5]

some great info on plants and bee keeping. I did not read the whole book, just those 2 sections.

[Debra · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have thoroughly enjoyed reading this series. Although my parents hail from the South, they were not from Appalachia. Even so, the stories the old ones told of growing up were similar to those my parents and grandparents told. Their stories told in this series are a true testament to the grit of those who worked the land of this country. Their strength and struggles created a can-do America that persists today.

[Cheryl]

Got two recipes out of it, for scalloped apples and sweet potato pie. This series just doesn't mean as much to me now that my grandma has passed and I no longer see my dad often.

[Lulu · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another one I forgot about. A ton of useful & interesting info.

[Skylar · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can’t say enough about the Foxfire books. I love them so much.

[Xysea · Rating 4 out of 5]

Of the series, this is one that is rather valuable in terms of usable knowledge. Occasionally, these books ramble about nothing in particular, but after reading #11, I can bake scratch biscuits, syrup bread, make applesauce and plant a garden at the right time of year.

That's pretty good, I think.

[Charles · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Great Series on how on people use to do thing when they were mostly self sufficient, and not store dependent different volumes cover everything from snake handling. to log cabin building to planting by the seasons, a must for DIY'ers and survivalists. Check out amazon.com for individual contents.

[Fredrick Danysh · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a rehash of information presented in the previous volumes. An oral history of early 1900s Appilachia in northern Georgia. Covers farming, cooking, and plants among other topics.