Practical advice, invaluable information and collected wisdom for folks and farmers in the country, city, and anywhere in between. Includes how to cultivate a garden, buy land, bake bread, raise farm animals, make sausage, can peaches, milk a goat, grow herbs, churn butter, build a chicken coop, catch a pig, cook on a wood stove and much, much more, including how to: * choose & buy land * pinch pennies * create and live with renewable energy sources * deliver a baby alone * preserve and can your own food * make a quilting frame * prune a tree * bathe under primitive conditions * raise chickens * make your own vinegar * treat bites and stings from ticks, scorpions, snakes and spiders