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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

So many people have helped me during the years Ive been working on this book, I cant begin to list everyone here. Please forgive me if you should be named and you arent.

Thank you, God.

Thank you, all of my original subscribers. You bought into a dream, not knowing it was then just a dream and not yet a book. Thank you, everyone who worked so hard in those early days to help me make that dream a reality. All of youand everyone who ever bought a book from memade it possible for me to keep writing new, improved editions.

Thank you, everyone who ever bought a book from me or by me. You supported a good cause and made it possible for me to continue a life of researching and writing.

Thank you to everyone who contributed a recipe, a piece of advice, an anecdote, picture, paragraphs, criticism, or suggestions (whether I was able to include them or not). You each taught me something.

Thank you to all those unsung heroes who, over the 30 years of this books production, have helped to prepare, print, or market various editions.

Thank you to Mark Boseck of Sunset Graphics for making me learn to use PageMaker 6.5.

Thanks to Mark and Stephanie for months of painstakingly erasing dots and strengthening weak lines in pictures by Cindy Davis, imported from the old mimeographed versions of this book.

Thanks to Valerie Touchstone for patiently bringing revised indexes.

Thank you to my husband, Don DeLong, for keeping my computer and printer going, my morale up, and for loving this unrepentant workaholic.

Carla Emery

Here are some poems readers have shared with me. A dear lady named Maude Dougharty sent the first one to me back when I was first publishing this book, and its appeared in every edition since. The second poem was sent to me in January 1994 by Julie Ryan of Connecticut. I love it!

MAMAS MAMA

Mamas Mama, on a winters day,
Milked the cows and fed them hay,
Slopped the hogs, saddled the mule,
And got the children off to school.
Did a washing, mopped the floors,
Washed the windows and did some chores.
Cooked a dish of home-dried fruit,
Pressed her husbands Sunday suit,
Swept the parlor, made the bed,
Baked a dozen loaves of bread.
Split some wood and lugged it in,
Enough to fill the kitchen bin,
Cleaned the lamps and put in oil,
Stewed some apples she thought might spoil,
Churned the butter, baked a cake,
Then exclaimed: For Mercys sake,
The calves have got out of the pen!
Went out and chased them in again,
Gathered the eggs and locked the stable,
Returned to the house and set the table,
Cooked a supper that was delicious,
And afterwards washed all the dishes,
Fed the cat, sprinkled the clothes,
Mended a basket full of hose,
Then opened the organ and began to play,
When You Come to the End of a Perfect Day.

Anna Rees Henton, Age 85, 1953

OUT IN THE FIELDS WITH GOD

The little cares that fretted me,
I lost them yesterday,
Among the fields, above the sea,
Among the winds at play;
Among the lowing of the herds,
The rustling of the trees,
Among the singing of the birds,
The humming of the bees.
The foolish fears of what may happen,
I cast them all away
Among the clover-scented grass,
Among the new-mown hay.
Among the rustling of the corn,
Where drowsy poppies nod,
Where ill thoughts die and good are born
Out in the fields with God.

Author Unknown Attributed to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Imogen Guiney

WHAT THIS BOOK IS

This book has been writtenand rewrittenover a span of 32 years. Like a geological deposit, it has layers. The first layer was the ambitious 12-page table of contents I started compiling back in 1969. Thats when I first got to thinking about this book. I wanted to put into one work everything someone would want or need to know about family food production. I wanted it to be a complete reference, an encyclopedia of information and skills, a practical resource anyone could use.

The back to the land movement had started happening thena tremendous out-migration from cities to country. I was living in a tiny town in northern Idaho, and the newcomers were everywhere, full of urgent questions about growing plants and raising animals. So the next layer of the book got written as I tried to answer their questions, encourage them in the hard moments, and help them adapt to the harsh realities of country living. I was struggling to create for them an affordable, single-volume reference work on raising and preparing foodevery kind of food, every step of the wayfrom planting a seed in the garden or mating animals to preparing a meal.

I was also trying to preserve the precious knowledge of an older generation of homesteadersknowledge that was rapidly disappearing as that generation passed on. It seemed that traditional, old-time technologies were being cast aside as people flocked to petroleum-based technologies and centralized supply systems. I wanted to help record and preserve the traditional methods. They offer a workable alternative to petroleum-dependent technologies, and as we continue to deplete the earths oil deposits, the old, self-sufficient methods will become more and more important to know.

Mrs. Harless and Imogene Kepford were among the first old-timers I talked to. I visited their homeswhere they always made me feel welcomeand listened to them, enjoying their blunt, charming, pioneer language. Their amazing knowledge about every aspect of home food production humbled me. I began trying out what they told meand writing it down. Then Id return to their homes to ask more questions, and Id write those answers down too. When Mrs. Harless died unexpectedly about a year after I met her, I felt as though Id lost a mother. And I realized how much harder and faster I needed to work on my project.

Today, a general ignorance about food productionas well as the lack of land on which to grow plants or raise animalsmakes most people captive consumers. Unlike their great-grandparents, the urbanized members of todays society are almost totally dependent on other people to produce their food, clothing, and shelterand theyre subject to the market prices for those essential commodities. Many people spend their lives a paycheck away from hunger or homelessnessbecause they must pay other people to supply their most basic needs.

I love education and books because they empower people. Thats what this book is all about: providing you with the information you need to do things on your own, instead of paying someone else to do them for you.

Another layer of this book comes from the many people who have contributed to it. Ive been helped by an army of persons who have shared recipes, advice, and information gained from years of experience. And every time I finished another edition of this book, people wrote to me with corrections, or with more information, or with important questions I hadnt answered. The book grew and improved edition after edition, prodded by those interactions with readers. So this isnt

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