Sobre El Autor
Nicole Faires is an adventurer, self-proclaimed eccentric, wife, and mother of three girls. She grew up in a semi-nomadic homeschooling family and spent her early years in rural Montana on a hobby farm where she raised chickens, grew her own food, learned to crochet, read out-of-print books by mostrar más Masanobu Fukuoka, and dreamed of the Amish. She is the author of The Ultimate Guide to Homesteading and continues to seek new adventures and local food with her family in beautiful British Columbia, where she lives as a champion of renaissance sustainable lifestyles. mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Nicole Faires
Obras de Nicole Faires
The Ultimate Guide to Homesteading: An Encyclopedia of Independent Living (The Ultimate Guides) (2011) 95 copias
The Ultimate Guide to Urban Farming: Sustainable Living in Your Home, Community, and Business (2016) 7 copias
Food Confidential: The Corporate Takeover of Food Security and the Family Farm—and What to Do About It (2015) 6 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Price-Morin, Nicole
- Género
- female
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Permaculture (1)
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 8
- Miembros
- 188
- Popularidad
- #115,783
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 18
- Idiomas
- 1
I skimmed through he first few chapters and wasn't impressed (there was a lot of anecdotal and folkloric advice, which I find rather sketchy) but I wasn't totally turned off. My husband the logger finished the book he was reading and snatched this one out of my stack. The kvetching began.
Matt isn't as prone to complaint as I am, but he found plenty to complain about as he flipped through this book. “There's no dead man switch on a chainsaw,” he burst out from the couch while I was supervising the KitchenAid. “And an icy log won't freaking explode if you put it on the fire – it'll just make the fire go out.” So on and so forth.
He read a lot more of the book than I found time for, and his verdict was that while Ms. Faires was well-intentioned, she was also greatly misinformed.
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