Foxfire Country Living Magazine and Books
I had purchased the entire set of Foxfire books (one at a time) from Amazon awhile back and was under the impression that they’d stopped making them a long, long time ago. These first came out in the 1970s (the first three before I was even born) and recorded knowledge from the old-timers of Appalachia in and around Rabun County, Georgia.
Those first old-timers – like the wise, hardened and completely lovable Aunt Arie and the cantankerous, ornery moonshiner Simmie Free – were already on the verge of extinction back then and can only be listened to and learned from in the pages of those first Foxfire books.
But come to find out, Foxfire has been keeping the flame alive all these years and you can still subscribe to their magazine, which puts out two thick issues ever year!
I love the Firefox books…I currently only have book 2, which has the wild beekeeping and how to find honey trees in the forest. I also have the Firefox Guide to Appalachian Cookery, and that one goes from cooking over fire to woodstoves and beyond. I adore it!
Take care, and enjoy yourself.
learning to live off the grid please help
new to most of this, but begining to love it. looking forward to more information especially,homesteading.
My Mom had a set of these when I was little and we lived in the backwoods of WV. One of the volumes was full of interesting edible plants and things to find in the woods. We ate something called “polk-stalks” for weeks. A bit like celery, almost. We called them ‘green Cheerios’ because that’s what they resembled when they were cut up. Polk-stalk salad. Polk-stalks with butter. Ugh
I do remember enjoying the beech tree bark and teaberry leaves while out on my hikes, though!
Definitely an interesting and enlightening set of books…I’ll have to see if Mom still has them. Cool to know they still publish a magazine.
I have foxfire books 1-8 I’m looking for 9-12 I have the old paper back ones
Foxfire is my favorite, I have foxfire books 1,2,3,4,5,8, and 9. Still on the hunt for the rest, this book indeed will provide you with a history of a forgotten living. When America was still at it’s roots even in the most modern of times. It is so comforting to have these books in these days of economic terror, cell phone bills and whatever else the consumer/corporate world can shove down our throats, I like to kid with myself that if the stock market were to ever crash(the feeling of that is present, I’m sure, for many of us), well atleast I have foxfire to provide me with the information on living plainly, I have been a vegan for quite some time, and I always say “the next step after veganism is living plainly, raising my own chickens and other livestock and eating them, because that would be the correct way of doing things in order to really survive, being self-sustainable.” Thank you foxfire for all you have done and for some really amazing books.
Nov 12th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
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