The most complete volume on every aspect of country living-from home and garden to barn and beyond.

"8,167 useful skills and step-by-step instructions including: attracting hummingbirds, baking basic bread, breeding livestock, building homebrew equipment ..."--Cover. Includes index.

Introduction -- Animals: Birds and bats -- Cats -- Dogs -- Rabbits -- Horses -- Livestock and more -- Cooking: General -- Breads -- From the dairy -- Meats -- Preserving, pickling, canning, distilling -- Crafts: For the home -- Gifts from nature -- Gifts and decorations -- Gardening: General information -- Flowering plants -- Vegetables and more -- Fruits and berries -- Kitchen herbs -- Landscaping and speciality gardens -- Health and wellbeing: Beauty and bath -- Natural home remedies -- Recipes and elixirs -- Home: Inside the house -- Fences, orchards, outbuildings and more -- Appendices -- List of illustrators -- Index.