The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining, and Other Affairs of Plain Living

Good book, lots of Information, you never know

Very informative and enjoyable to read! This helps readers to reconnect to their heritage and the way our ancestors lived off the land without all the modern conveniences of modern day life. This seller is absolutely the best!!! Fastest delivery ever!!! Ordered the 16th and it arrived the 18th even though estimated delivery date was "by the 27th". This was such a pleasant surprise!!

I read many of the Foxfire series in my 20's as my aunt had a huge collection and now that I am 60 years old, I still find them fascinating. While I was raised in a city, I used to have long visits with my maternal grandmother who had a large farm in the mountains of Tennessee. She was a very unconditionally loving person and taught me a lot of folklore that I treasure today. I was grieved when she died when I was 17 years old but while reading these books, I can feel her at my side, her voice in my head always teaching me the old ways. Now my 18 year old son is presently hooked on the books and sometimes we read them out aloud together. While reading the books, I tell him stories about the history of his family as well as the farm which is still in our family today (although, sadly, no one lives there or farms it anymore). The Foxfire series is so varied and interesting that anyone could find some of the topics, if not all of them, educational and intriguing. I am so glad that someone took the time to preserve the history of the "old ways".

Everyone should own this book. Actually at least the 1st 3 in the series. And I got it in just 2 days. This is the 3rd time buying it because I lend it out. Back in the 1970s a group of college kids went to Appalachia to document the old ways. Just the transcript of them with the hogs head is worth the whole book!!

When I was a little girl I remember a whole summer that was spent helping my uncle build a cabin on his land as a retreat that was close to home. There were whole summers spent growing food and canning the results of our work, laughter as we raced to see who could snap the most green beans. This book has brought reminders of those happier times and recipes that I remember from long ago. It's a wealth of forgotten knowledge, except for the remedies, I'm not smearing myself with flue and paint thinner to cure a cough.

The printing is so small that it’s difficult for me to read with glasses. I wish they had this book in large print, but it does not come that way. The subject matter is excellent and the writing in this book will keep you on the edge of your seat

I first read this book when it showed up in the library in the early 1970's and it still holds it's charm. I'm no longer that border-line hippie who wants to live off the land, so much of the useful information has become nostalgia, but there are still lessons to be learned about life that can't be taught in any classroom, only in life itself. The basis for the Foxfire book, and others in the series, was a magazine published by Appalachian students collecting their family teachings and lore. Presented exactly as written, or dictated, by the authors of each article, the language and grammar may be off but the knowledge and beliefs are evident in the pages. The families, individuals and stories are really the collection of skills mastered over the generations of living in the environment, skills that are lost in most of the modern world but that would be easily found in what many refer to as "Third World Nations." For all those viewers of the various homesteading, off-grid living, and survival programs on TV, this is what that life was like before cable TV and the internet took over for books, newspapers and stories around the dinner table.

The Foxfire books are a window into the past and are a great resource for those looking to learn how to do things the "old ways". We added this series to our emergency book collection since the knowledge contained would be very useful during a prolonged disaster. I was raised without a TV, we ground our own flour, planted a large garden, hunted and raised livestock for food (my sister wrote a book about our lifestyle, Possum Living: How to Live Well Without a Job and with (Almost) No Money ), so can appreciate the way of life portrayed in the Foxfire books. My kids like their modern conveniences, but really need to understand the way things were and be able to live that way again if needed. The sections include practical "how-to" information (planting, crafts, moonshining) as well as interesting "lore" that was fun to share with my kids. The writing is very well done and often contains useful illustrations. Theses are not text books and it might take sometime to get the information you need out of them, but it is all in there. Highly Recommended! CFH