This is the most fantastic book ever. My mother has the original book written by a typewriter that she got approx. around 1973-1976. If your into natural things and want to learn stuff from gardening to making cornmeal mush, country Survival, basic skills that most of us no longer know how to do, then this is the book for you. I feel better about myself just having this info around. Thankyou Carla Emery, and keep writing. Everything you know will save us all in the end. Jennie Vaughn-Campbell