Foxfire 2: Ghost Stories, Spring Wild Plant Foods, Spinning and Weaving, Midwifing, Burial Customs, Corn Shuckin'S, Wagon Making and More Affairs of

What can be said? The Foxfire series is already classic for the preservation of personal stories and the ways of mountain life. This volume covers the foraging and gathering of wild foods and is very good - BUT I would still recommend a reliable plant guidebook with color photographs - just to be positive about each plant. Be sure, be safe in wild food gathering, if you are not 100% sure, DO NOT EAT the gathered foods. The ghost stories are classic and the sections about spinning and weaving are so interesting. I am building a library of these necessary books just for the accumulated years of knowledge these books contain.

After reading the first Foxfire book, I fell in love with the old ways and the simpler life the people of the Blue Ridge lived. I even shared it with my scouts, and we made soap out of campfire ashes and discarded bacon grease on a recent campout. Book 2 contains even more of the same, including how to build a primitive log cabin, make a wagon, preserve vegetables and what plants are good to eat in spring. There's also a complete guide to stripping a hog down and using nearly every piece of it!

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My son wanted the entire Foxfire collection so I purchased all of the books from Amazon. He has read all of the books now and while some of the volumes he said did not have much practical instructional information he still enjoyed reading them immensely if just for the story aspect. These books are great for anyone who loves to read about old-fashioned ways of living before modern conveniences were commonplace or for someone who wants to learn how many things were done before things were so readily available. These books would be great for anyone who is of the "survivalist" mindset or anyone who just wants to learn to be more self sufficient.

These are just really good books! Grew up ready them at my aunts house. Educational and wonderful stories on how things use to be done. Everything from moonshine, old time medicine and ghost stories. Ive read them numerous times and they never get old. I hope to get the entire collection of foxfire books so my kids can grow up reading these wonderful books too.

I chose a 4 star rating because the books are in great condition, they came in a timely manner and I was surprised at the size of the book. I was thinking this was a smaller, manual and not a thick book! I was skimming through and it seemed to have great information. I am gifting this, that is why I have not read it, as of yet. If I read it I would have probably rated this as a 5 star item. :) The book covers many different topics, there are images and first hand accounts that were documented throughout the book. The images are in black-and-white.

I bought this for my son for Christmas. His father had one and I don't know what happened to it. So, I bought this for him

Arrived quickly and in good shape, thanks

Great series wonderful.

The foxfire series is the result of a wonderful project recording the wide ranging skills of people living in the Appalachians. Every volume contains real life experience as passed on during interviews with older persons done by students from local schools. They can be a bit rambling but that only adds to the charm and sense of real life lived in tough circumstances. Read these books and you will be able to live in the wild, build a cabin, grow food, hunt animals, make moonshine whisky - it is a bit like listening to Ray Mears but with the knowledge that these people lived this way with no option to get helicoptered out if it all went pear shaped.

Got it because of interest in older technologies and farming, so far it's great, got books 1 and 3 on order and already have books 4&5.