Promoting ecological awareness, this practical guide, richly illustrated, details how to achieve real country living and conveys the pleasures and benefits of small-scale, high-quality crop and livestock production. COUNTRY LIFE offers real-life options for people who yearn to be self-sufficient or who simply want a more fulfilling "house in the country". Over 700 illustrations.

A celebration of the authors' shared horticultural and culinary lives in their southern Vermont garden explores their views about living in harmony with nature while tracing a year of enjoying home-grown seasonal edibles.

How English country folk lived, worked, threshed, thatched, rolled fleece, milled corn, brewed mead, and carried on all the other tasks and trades of daily rural life.

Shows a country-style approach to interior design, looks at rural homes, antique furniture, and country crafts, and offers suggestions on planning a garden

Practical book for people who want to live on the land.

A classic of seasonal cookery, these recipes are arranged by month and are profoundly seasonable.

Angela Fytton -- wonderwife and supermother -- has been unceremoniously dumped by her husband. Like many a good wife before her, she has been replaced for a younger model. Now, divorced but determined, she rediscovers the iron in her soul and decides to fight. She moves to the country, leaving her entirely selfish teenage children with their father and his sweet new bride, and waits. One day, she knows, her husband will return. Meanwhile, she yields herself up to the notion that country life is pure and good and country people are next to angels -- and finds that this is very far from the truth....

Includes more than 250 recipes for pies, cakes, cookies, muffins, biscuits, buns, rolls, quick breads, and yeast breads