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[Rob <becida AT comcast.net>]

At  12/8/2007 04:29 PM,Robert Walton wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> We're going to do one of the hogs here at home over Christmas when I
> have some help in from the city. I want to cure some bacon and at
> least one ham. Any tips?

I trimmed some from this post where Tvo refred the readers to Gene's 
book reviews where he talks of Carla's book. and SHE talks of 
building and using a smokehouse.

Rob
becida AT comast.net
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Bob W wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm mostly a lurker and learner, but I have a question and am looking
> for opinions which I'm sure I can get here.
>
> we are getting ready to buy property in East Tennessee. I am trying to
> decide whether to put the house high or low. The property has two good
> home sites. One is down in the lower part of the property, I can set the
> house back in the trees. Nice and secluded. The other site is up on top
> of the hill. Better view but not as secluded. I would like to know the
> pros and cons of the two locations from all of the experts out there
> that have made this decision before. .
>
> Bob W [FL] (Will be TN eventually)

Tvoivozhd---Which site is better for passive solar heating?  In the not 
distant
future, fuels other than wood are going to
eat up an increasing amount of your income and make you dependent upon people
over whom you have no control or even influence. And which site will provide
breeze for hot-weather cooling---protection from winter wind?

Which site is better for providing a pollution-free water source?

Assuming you are going to garden and have animals around, will it be more
convenient to  have them above or below the house:

Is there a spring, stream or pondsite at the lower level?

Is the area heavily wooded adjacent to and beyond your property?  (A potential
fire hazard in dry weather).

Which site will require the shortest and/or most level private road to the
highway?  Short means less expense to install.
Level  means less expense to maintain.  A steep road subject to washing is a
perpetual nuisance and bank account hemorrhage.

You should buy Gene Gerue's book and perhaps others on his recommend list that
follows.  He is temporarily incommunicado, having filled his beer moat and
forgotten his snorkel.  I  feel confidant he will soon drink it all and be 
back
with us in sodden splendor, if the Moat Monsters don't get him first.



                    GeRue's Reviews

                      A Country
                       Bookstore




 is being constructed here, with links to Amazon.com, a relationship that will
 give me a few bucks to buy more books. I have been reading country books
 for decades, I keep buying and reading new ones and will present here those I
 feel are the best of the best in each country-living subject. If you have a
 nomination, please e-mail me. Please be patient as I develop this
 bookstore--my html expertise is about on a par with my fluency in Swahili



  .
               THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COUNTRY LIVING, by
               Carla Emery
               Carla Emery is a national treasure. This is simply the most
               informative book ever written on country living, the next
               best thing to having a live-in grandmother who knows
               everything there is to getting homegrown food from dreams
               to dinner plates plus nearly anything else you need to
               know. Begun as a 12-page table of contents for a recipe
 book in 1969, the present ninth edition has 858 pages of far more than
 recipes. Veggies, vines, trees, grains, poultry, goats, cows, bees, rabbits,
 sheep, pigs. Planning, nurturing, harvesting, preserving, preparing. Flipping
 pages at random finds starting transplants, breads leavened with eggs and
 beating, speeding up tomato sauce-making, harvesting herbs, making cider,
 managing an existing stand of trees, root cellar storage, soap 
making, brooding

 chicks, secrets to safe cattle handling, cultured buttermilk, 
cooking on a wood

 stove, jams and jellies, making a wool quilt. If your budget or bookshelf has
 room for only one book, this is the book to buy. Go to Amazon's page for
 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COUNTRY LIVING
                   BACK TO BASICS: HOW TO LEARN AND
                   ENJOY TRADITIONAL AMERICAN
                   SKILLS, by Readers Digest.
                   A primer on self-reliance and rural skills, this is a
                   large-format book of 456 pages lavishly illustrated
                   with photographs and drawings, about half in full
 color. Here are 57 subjects, many with subsets, as in gardening, which
 includes information on soil, cultivation methods, making and using a
 greenhouse, and specific information on many veggies, herbs, fruits. Some
 presentations are simplistic, like telling you how to find and 
evaluate a farm
or
 can produce in only four pages. Building and using a smokehouse gets one
 page. Using dairy products butters ten pages. Woodworking and furniture
 making nail down thirty pages. Build and decorate a house and the chairs,
 tables, beds to furnish it. Build a springhouse, a dam, a well, a 
water system.

 Grow vegetables, fruits, grains. Raise bees, fish, chickens, ducks, geese,
 rabbits, hogs, sheep, goats, cows, horses. Make cheese, maple syrup, beer,
 wine, bread, soap, candles, baskets. Cook with wood. Spin yarn, use natural
 dyes, make cloth, quilts, rugs, hammocks. Learn tanning and leather work,
 tinsmithing, blacksmithing, toolmaking. Celebrate harvest and holidays with
 traditional decorations, recipes, toys, games, dances. Learn camping, hiking,
 fishing, canoeing, snowshoeing, skiing. Whew! This book will keep you
 happily occupied for several decades. Go to Amazon's page for BACK TO
 BASICS



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