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Foxfire 11: The old Homeplace, Wild Plant Use, Preserving and Cooking Food, Hunting Stories, Fishing, More Affairs of Plain Living

by Kaye Carver Collins

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Publisher Comments:

With this newest volume in the Foxfire series comes a wealth of the kind of folk wisdom and values of simple living that have made these volumes beloved bestsellers for the last three decades, with more than two million copies in print.

In 1966, in the Appalachian Mountains of Northeast Georgia, Eliot Wigginton and his students founded a quarterly magazine that they named Foxfire, after a phosphorescent lichen. In 1972, several articles from the magazine were published in book form, and the acclaimed Foxfire series was born. Almost thirty years later, in this age of technology and cyber-living, the books teach a philosophy of simplicity in living that is truly enduring in its appeal. This new volume--Foxfire 11--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.

Synopsis:

Continuing the tradition begun in the acclaimed series of "Foxfire" books first published in 1972, the eleventh book includes articles on wild plant uses, gardening wit and wisdom, beekeeping, tool making, fishing, and more affairs of plain living.

Description:

Includes bibliographical references.

About the Author

Kaye Carver Collins is the community and teacher liaison at The Foxfire Fund, Inc. Lacy Hunter is a sophomore at Brenau College in Gainesville, Georgia.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780385494618
Editor:
Collins, Kaye Carver
Editor:
Hunter, Lacy
Editor:
Hunter, Lacy
Editor:
Collins, Kaye Carver
Author:
Collins, Kaye Carver
Author:
Foxfire Fund
Author:
Foxfire Fund Inc
Author:
Hunter, Lacy
Publisher:
Anchor Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Reference
Subject:
Social life and customs
Subject:
Handicraft
Subject:
Folklore & Mythology
Subject:
Country life
Subject:
Appalachian Region, Southern
Subject:
Country life -- Appalachian Region, Southern.
Subject:
Country life -- Georgia -- Rabun County.
Subject:
Rabun County
Subject:
General Crafts & Hobbies
Subject:
Biology-Reference
Copyright:
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Series:
Foxfire Paperback
Series Volume:
11
Publication Date:
19991231
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
336
Dimensions:
9.2 x 6 x .9 in .875 lb

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