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The good life : Helen and Scott Nearing's sixty years of self-sufficient living / [by Helen and Scott Nearing].
Van Pelt Library S521.5.V5 N4 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nearing, Helen.
- Standardized Title:
- Living the good life
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nearing, Helen.
- Nearing, Scott, 1883-1983.
- Nearing, Scott.
- Country life--Vermont.
- Country life.
- Vermont.
- Country life--Maine--Harborside.
- Maine--Harborside.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 411 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First Schocken Books edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Schocken Books, [1989]
- Summary:
- This one volume edition of Living the Good Life and Continuing the Good Life brings these classics on rural homesteading together. This couple abandoned the city for a rural life with minimal cash and the knowledge of self reliance and good health.
- Contents:
- A Word from Helen vii
- Living the Good Life
- 1 We Search for the Good Life 11
- 2 Our Design for Living 29
- 3 We Build a Stone House 55
- 4 Our Good Earth 91
- 5 Eating for Health 117
- 6 Rounding Out a Livelihood 151
- 7 Living in a Community 165
- 8 A Balance Sheet of the Vermont Project 189
- Continuing the Good Life
- Introduction: Homesteading as a Productive Avocation 209
- 1 We Move, Bag and Baggage, To Maine 216
- 2 Spring and Summer Gardening 228
- 3 The Fall Garden 240
- 4 Wintertime Gardening 248
- 5 Winter Storage 258
- 6 Buliding the Soil with Compost 266
- 7 Water for House, Garden, and a Pond 278
- 8 Our Cash Crop: Blueberries 286
- 9 Tree Crops in Maine 294
- 10 Wood for Fuel 304
- 11 Stone Walls Versus Wire Fences 318
- 12 Building Stone Structures 328
- 13 Remodeling Old Wooden Buildings: Don't! 340
- 14 Plans, Records, and Budgeting 348
- 15 Visitors and Helpers 358
- 16 What We Eat and Why 368
- 17 We Practice Health 378
- 18 A Rewarding Way to Live 388.
- Notes:
- Reprint (1st work). Previously published: Living the good life. New York : Schocken Books, 1970.
- Reprint (2nd work). Previously published: Continuing the good life. New York : Schocken Books, 1979.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-400).
- Contains:
- Nearing, Helen. Continuing the good life. 1989.
- ISBN:
- 0805209700 :
- OCLC:
- 20130133
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