Foxfire Volume Two – More Tales of Self Sufficiency

From Survival and Beyond

When I posted the first volume from the Foxfire series of books, I expected a bunch of my self reliance minded readers to dig it, and I had planned to post a few more editions spaced out over time, but the number of requests I’ve received to post more of these great books was completely unexpected!  So here it is…  Volume 2.

Some of the topics in this book include bee keeping, wild plant foods, raising sheep for wool, making a foot-powered lathe and other affairs of self sufficiency and “plain living”.

From the introduction:

…there’s this second book that on the surface is about the same thing the first one was about—namely, one group of people and how they dealt. Simple. But I suspect that if you really got into the first volume, you know already it had to do with a lot more than that. Perhaps you’re the kind who once knew a grandfather who was extraordinary, maybe for no other reason than that he didn’t give a flying damn that he was poor as Job’s turkey as long as everyone he cared about was dry and warm, and that there was hot food on the table, and a couple good neighbors, and time to hike up into that cove above the cabin to see if there were any four-prongers this year in the ’sang patch. Or maybe for the fact that he was one of those rascally scoundrels who ran a liquor still in a basement right in the middle of town and vented his smoke out the same chimney the courthouse used. Like that…

See, this isn’t really a ‘‘How to Survive in the Woods” manual, although it does show how one specific group of people in one specific time and place did survive. I just want to explain that to some of you who may be irritated because we haven’t told you how to vent your outhouse yet. See, mostly this book is about school, and about community, and about people, and about the great adventure life can be when lived intensely.

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