The author shares her journey of becoming self-sufficient in her rental apartment in Idaho. She discusses homemade bread, running a sled dog team, raising chickens, failing at beekeeping, putting her maimed rabbit down, using vintage appliances, and more. This was a quick read as the author is ...
This book suffers from the blog to book symptoms of needing a better edit. It didn't flow together very well and the final chapters felt rushed. Overall, I was put off by the smugness. She at one point seems amazed that someone would be concerned about the view from their window rather than the ...
I picked this book up on a whim from the library and I am so glad I did. We have been talking about getting chickens, now that we have moved out to the boonies, but I have been more than a little hesitant. But Jenna makes it all sound so fun, satisfying and easy and now I am very keen to get st...
Hmm. I still love Jenna Woginrich and continue to think that we were separated at birth (or at least have somehow come to drink the same flavor of dreaming-of-a-homestead koolaid), but this book wasn't my favorite of hers. It felt like it was trying to be very poetic, but came up short. I missed ...