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The Harrowsmith Reader: An Anthology from Canada's National Award Winning Magazine of Country Life and Alternatives to Bigness
Beautifully illustrated guide to everything gardening and farming, including articles on wind generation, spinning, goats, animal husbandry, shelter, land choice, building your pantry and rural life in general.
2 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1980
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October 25, 2021
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Out of print, but worth finding a copy. A 287-page anthology of articles from Harrowsmith magazine, chronicling lifestyles & experiences of the new wave of homesteaders (late 1960s thru ‘70s) in Canada. Motivations, approaches, methods, daily lives (including kitchen/dinner-table), economics, successes & failures, and so on. Spunky & full of Canadian progressivism. Much to be learned from these well-written, nicely illustrated pieces. (Two later anthologies were published, as well, as Volumes 2 & 3.)
Out of print, but worth finding a copy. A 287-page anthology of articles from Harrowsmith magazine, chronicling lifestyles & experiences of the new wave of homesteaders (late 1960s thru ‘70s) in Canada. Motivations, approaches, methods, daily lives (including kitchen/dinner-table), economics, successes & failures, and so on. Spunky & full of Canadian progressivism. Much to be learned from these well-written, nicely illustrated pieces. (Two later anthologies were published, as well, as Volumes 2 & 3.)
April 2, 2013
Haven't actually finished this yet, but I enjoy sitting down and just picking it up and reading one article. It's a compendium of magazine articles, and I think it's from the seventies, so some information is a little outdated regarding costs and other details. Still a nice winter read when I'm between longer readings.
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