Foxfire

Carol · 10-10-2008, 02:14 PM

The Foxfire series is also interesting:

The Foxfire Book - $16.95 - This volume, the original anthology, celebrates the home life and creative history of Appalachia, featuring sections on hog dressing, log cabin building, soap making, basket weaving, planting by the signs, preserving foods, making butter, snake lore, hunting tales, faith healing, and moonshining. (1972, softcover, 384 pgs, B&W photos)

Foxfire 2 - $16.95 - This second volume celebrates the rites and customs of Appalachia, featuring sections on ghost stories, spring wild plant foods, corn shuckins, spinning and weaving, midwives, granny women, old-time burial customs, witches and haints, and wagon making. (1973, softcover, 410 pgs, B&W photos)

Foxfire 3 - $16.95 - This third volume celebrates the lively and homespun heritage of Appalachia, featuring sections on animal care, banjos & dulcimers, hide tanning, summer and fall wild plant foods, cornshuck mops, butter churns, apple butter, building a lumber kiln, and ginseng. (1975, softcover, 511 pgs, B&W photos)

Foxfire 4 - $16.95 - This fourth volume celebrates the home life and creative heritage of Appalachia, featuring sections on fiddle making, springhouses, horse trading, sassafras tea, berry buckets, knife making, wood carving, logging, cheese making, and gardening. (1977, softcover, 496 pgs, B&W photos)

Foxfire 5 - $16.95 - This fifth volume celebrates the survival techniques and resourceful heritage of Appalachia, featuring sections on ironmaking, blacksmithing, horseshoes, cowbells, shovels, bellows, barrells, furnaces, flintlock rifles, and bear hunting. (1979, softcover, 512 pgs, B&W photos)

Foxfire 6 - $16.95 - This sixth volume celebrates the playful and innovative heritage of Appalachia, featuring 100 toys and games, from bow and arrows to merry-go-rounds, flying jennys to puzzles, cornstalk fiddles to gourd banjos and song bows, and cucumber dolls, as well as wooden locks, shoemaking, and a water-powered sawmill. (1980, softcover, 510 pgs, B&W photos)

Foxfire 7 - $16.95 - This seventh volume celebrates the spiritual heritage of Appalachia, featuring sections on ministers and church members, from Baptists to Methodists to Pentecostals to Presbyterians, as well as revivals, baptisms, shaped-note and gospel singing, faith healing, camp meetings, foot washing, and snake handling. (1982, softcover, 510 pgs, B&W photos)

Foxfire 8 - $16.95 - This eighth volume celebrates the artistic and skillful heritage of Appalachia, featuring sections on Southern folk pottery, from glazed snake jars to swirlware to flowerpots, pug mills, ash glazes, groundhog kilns, face jugs, churns, and roosters, as well as mule swapping and chicken fighting, breeding, and conditioning. (1984, softcover, 511 pgs, B&W photos)

Foxfire 9 - $16.95 - This ninth volume celebrates the crafts and heritage of Appalachia, featuring sections on the Judd Nelson wagon, crazy quilting, general stores, herbal remedies and home cures, herb doctors and healers, a praying rock, a Catawban Indian Potter, witchy and ghostly haint tales, and the log cabin revisited. (1986, softcover, 496 pgs, B&W photos)

Foxfire 10 - $16.95 - This tenth volume celebrates the heritage and history of Appalachia, featuring sections on old folklore, the role of railroads in Appalachian communities, boarding houses, building and technology from the Depression to the present, chairmaking, whirligigs, snake canes, and gourd art. (1993, softcover, 486 pgs, B&W photos)

Foxfire 11 - $16.95 - This eleventh volume celebrates the rituals and recipes of Appalachia, featuring sections on the old homeplace, wild plant uses, planting and growing a garden, preserving food - pickling, smoking, and salting, as well as beekeeping and making honey, hunting stories, fishing, and more affairs of plain living. (1999, softcover, 314 pgs, B&W photos)

Foxfire 12 - $16.95 - Reminiscences about square dancing and tales about traditional craftsmen who created useful items in the old-time ways. There are lessons on how to make rose beads and wooden caskets, and on how to find turtles in your local pond. Hear the voices of descendants of the Cherokee who lived in the region, and learn about what summer camp was like for generations of youngsters. Meet a rich assortment of Appalachian characters and listen to veterans recount their war experiences. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, Foxfire 12 is a rich trove of information and stories from the Southern Appalachian culture. (2004, softcover, 505 pgs, B&W photos)

http://www.foxfire.org/prodFFbooks.html

Blufire77 · 10-10-2008, 02:29 PM

I am from the area of Appalachian Mountains where the Foxfire books were written. I lived in Wolf Creek Hollow. My avatar Blufire is based on the foxfire I used to see many hot steamy summer nights, it truly looks like blue fire. Beautiful and magical.

These books do offer a lot of info but they are more “folksy” than real defined ways of how to homestead. My pick hands down is Carla Emery’s The Encyclopedia of Country Living. If I could only choose one book for solid information on how to live off-grid or basic “old timer” type living I would not hesitate to grab this one.

10-10-2008, 02:14 PM	#1
Carol Project Avalon Hero Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Big Island, Hawaii Posts: 2,008	Foxfire The Foxfire series is also interesting: The Foxfire Book - $16.95 - This volume, the original anthology, celebrates the home life and creative history of Appalachia, featuring sections on hog dressing, log cabin building, soap making, basket weaving, planting by the signs, preserving foods, making butter, snake lore, hunting tales, faith healing, and moonshining. (1972, softcover, 384 pgs, B&W photos) Foxfire 2 - $16.95 - This second volume celebrates the rites and customs of Appalachia, featuring sections on ghost stories, spring wild plant foods, corn shuckins, spinning and weaving, midwives, granny women, old-time burial customs, witches and haints, and wagon making. (1973, softcover, 410 pgs, B&W photos) Foxfire 3 - $16.95 - This third volume celebrates the lively and homespun heritage of Appalachia, featuring sections on animal care, banjos & dulcimers, hide tanning, summer and fall wild plant foods, cornshuck mops, butter churns, apple butter, building a lumber kiln, and ginseng. (1975, softcover, 511 pgs, B&W photos) Foxfire 4 - $16.95 - This fourth volume celebrates the home life and creative heritage of Appalachia, featuring sections on fiddle making, springhouses, horse trading, sassafras tea, berry buckets, knife making, wood carving, logging, cheese making, and gardening. (1977, softcover, 496 pgs, B&W photos) Foxfire 5 - $16.95 - This fifth volume celebrates the survival techniques and resourceful heritage of Appalachia, featuring sections on ironmaking, blacksmithing, horseshoes, cowbells, shovels, bellows, barrells, furnaces, flintlock rifles, and bear hunting. (1979, softcover, 512 pgs, B&W photos) Foxfire 6 - $16.95 - This sixth volume celebrates the playful and innovative heritage of Appalachia, featuring 100 toys and games, from bow and arrows to merry-go-rounds, flying jennys to puzzles, cornstalk fiddles to gourd banjos and song bows, and cucumber dolls, as well as wooden locks, shoemaking, and a water-powered sawmill. (1980, softcover, 510 pgs, B&W photos) Foxfire 7 - $16.95 - This seventh volume celebrates the spiritual heritage of Appalachia, featuring sections on ministers and church members, from Baptists to Methodists to Pentecostals to Presbyterians, as well as revivals, baptisms, shaped-note and gospel singing, faith healing, camp meetings, foot washing, and snake handling. (1982, softcover, 510 pgs, B&W photos) Foxfire 8 - $16.95 - This eighth volume celebrates the artistic and skillful heritage of Appalachia, featuring sections on Southern folk pottery, from glazed snake jars to swirlware to flowerpots, pug mills, ash glazes, groundhog kilns, face jugs, churns, and roosters, as well as mule swapping and chicken fighting, breeding, and conditioning. (1984, softcover, 511 pgs, B&W photos) Foxfire 9 - $16.95 - This ninth volume celebrates the crafts and heritage of Appalachia, featuring sections on the Judd Nelson wagon, crazy quilting, general stores, herbal remedies and home cures, herb doctors and healers, a praying rock, a Catawban Indian Potter, witchy and ghostly haint tales, and the log cabin revisited. (1986, softcover, 496 pgs, B&W photos) Foxfire 10 - $16.95 - This tenth volume celebrates the heritage and history of Appalachia, featuring sections on old folklore, the role of railroads in Appalachian communities, boarding houses, building and technology from the Depression to the present, chairmaking, whirligigs, snake canes, and gourd art. (1993, softcover, 486 pgs, B&W photos) Foxfire 11 - $16.95 - This eleventh volume celebrates the rituals and recipes of Appalachia, featuring sections on the old homeplace, wild plant uses, planting and growing a garden, preserving food - pickling, smoking, and salting, as well as beekeeping and making honey, hunting stories, fishing, and more affairs of plain living. (1999, softcover, 314 pgs, B&W photos) Foxfire 12 - $16.95 - Reminiscences about square dancing and tales about traditional craftsmen who created useful items in the old-time ways. There are lessons on how to make rose beads and wooden caskets, and on how to find turtles in your local pond. Hear the voices of descendants of the Cherokee who lived in the region, and learn about what summer camp was like for generations of youngsters. Meet a rich assortment of Appalachian characters and listen to veterans recount their war experiences. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, Foxfire 12 is a rich trove of information and stories from the Southern Appalachian culture. (2004, softcover, 505 pgs, B&W photos) http://www.foxfire.org/prodFFbooks.html __________________ Aloha, thank you, do jeh, toda, arigato, merci, grazie, salamat po, gracias, tack, sukria, danke schoen, kiitos, dank u, mahalo nui loa Images to nourish the spirit: http://mistsofavalon.invisionplus.ne...&showtopic=198

10-10-2008, 02:29 PM	#2
Blufire77 Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Kansas Posts: 54	Re: Foxfire I am from the area of Appalachian Mountains where the Foxfire books were written. I lived in Wolf Creek Hollow. My avatar Blufire is based on the foxfire I used to see many hot steamy summer nights, it truly looks like blue fire. Beautiful and magical. These books do offer a lot of info but they are more “folksy” than real defined ways of how to homestead. My pick hands down is Carla Emery’s The Encyclopedia of Country Living. If I could only choose one book for solid information on how to live off-grid or basic “old timer” type living I would not hesitate to grab this one.