A householder's guide to the universe : a calendar of basics for the home and beyond

A householder's guide to the universe A calendar of basics for the home and beyond

Harriet Fasenfest

Book - 2010

"While offering grass-roots practical advice on how to shop, garden, run a household, preserve and cook food, and more, Fasenfest also discusses the philosophy of householding. In A Householder's Guide to the Universe, which is organized according to season and presented in monthly installments, Fasenfest invites the reader into her home, garden, and kitchen to consider concrete tools for change."--P. [4] of cover.

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Subjects
Home economics.
Home economics > Anecdotes.
Kitchen gardens.
Vegetables > Preservation.
Fruit > Preservation.
Published
Portland, Or. : Tin House Books 2010.
Language
English
Main Author
Harriet Fasenfest (-)
Edition
First U.S. edition
Physical Description
405 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes index.
ISBN
9780982569153
  • Introduction
  • January
  • The Home
  • Personal Inventories
  • Hair Shirts
  • Bathrobes
  • Clay Ashtrays
  • The Garden
  • Walking the Yard
  • Making Maps
  • Side-Dish Gardening
  • Moderation
  • The Kitchen
  • Creating Your Stores
  • True Costs
  • Harvest Times
  • Meet the Farmers
  • The Value of Home Cooking
  • February
  • The Home
  • The Family System
  • The Garden
  • Making Your Plan
  • Harriet's Hit List
  • The Kitchen
  • Calculating and Creating Storage Space
  • March
  • The Home
  • Creating a Budget-From Kids to Boomers
  • The Garden
  • On Sowing the Seeds of Potatoes, Peas, and Prudence
  • The Kitchen
  • The Preserving Game Plan
  • County Extension
  • The Gleaner's Ethic
  • April
  • The Home
  • Spring Cleaning
  • The Garden
  • Sowing Carrots
  • Beets and Greens
  • Keeping Out Kitty
  • Building Raised Beds
  • The Kitchen
  • Building Your Outdoor Kitchen
  • The Story of Raw Milk
  • Making Butter and Buttermilk
  • May
  • The Home
  • Teach Your Children Well
  • The Garden
  • Rain
  • Meals at the Table
  • Onions
  • Beans
  • Eating Dirt
  • The Love of Herbs
  • The Kitchen
  • The Story of Meat, from Pasture to Table
  • June
  • The Home
  • The Happy World of the Generalist
  • The Garden
  • The Guilt of the Gardener
  • Transplanting Tomato Starts
  • The Wild Kingdom
  • Slugs Be Damned
  • The Kitchen
  • Berries
  • Patience
  • Genetic Modification
  • Wild Things
  • The Alchemy of Jam-Making
  • July
  • The Home
  • A Home of Mom's Making
  • The Garden
  • The Truth behind Gardening Guides
  • The Importance of Mulch
  • Thinking Like a Plant
  • The Kitchen
  • A Quick Cup of Coffee
  • Mama Darden
  • Blueberries
  • Napping
  • August
  • The Home
  • The New Barn Building
  • The Garden
  • Sowing Carrots-Again
  • Troubleshooting Cucumbers
  • Taking Stock of the Harvest
  • The Kitchen
  • The Pears of Epiphany
  • My Temperamental Peaches
  • Walking the Rows
  • The Godfather of Ferments
  • Loving Me Some Plums
  • September
  • The Home
  • Taking In the Stranger
  • The Garden
  • Pulling Up Potatoes
  • Planting Cover Crops
  • The Winter Garden
  • The Kitchen
  • Canning Tomatoes
  • Drying Fruit
  • Tuna
  • The New Benevolent Overseers
  • The University of Grandmothers
  • October
  • The Home
  • Miles
  • The Garden
  • Sowing Garlic and Shallots
  • Cleaning Up the Garden
  • Lurching toward Darkness
  • The Kitchen
  • Green Tomatoes
  • The Root Cellar
  • Apples
  • Romancing the Squeezo
  • November
  • The Home
  • Repair
  • The Garden
  • Raking Leaves
  • Prissiness
  • The Final Reckoning
  • The Kitchen
  • Walnuts
  • Pantry Cooking
  • Pork
  • Holiday Hoo-Ha
  • December
  • The Home
  • Copenhagen
  • The Power of "Out There"
  • The Garden
  • Best-Laid Plans
  • Fancy Talk
  • Potato Mind
  • The Kitchen
  • Peas
  • Luck
  • Fruitcake
  • The Future
  • Index
Review by Booklist Review

A bible for back-to-the-landers even if the land is only a postage-stamp-sized city lot, Fasenfest's utilitarian and utopian guide follows in the footsteps of such iconic manuals for rational living as the nineteenth-century's McGuffey's Reader and the 1970s' The Whole Earth Catalog. Destined to be as influential in its time, Fasenfest's treatise is filled with homespun philosophy and hard-won wisdom as she tackles everything from churning one's own butter to curing one's own ham. Month by month, Fasenfest takes her observations of the world around her and translates them into activities for reclaiming home and hearth, garden and psyche from the forces of resource-depleting agribusiness and time-sucking technology. The term she gives this mode of conscientious living is householding, a quaint expression for a very contemporary conundrum, and while the changes she advocates can be daunting, the rewards are delectable. Part manifesto, part confessional, yet totally practical and attainable, Fasenfest's inviting, impassioned guide delineates precise ways homeowners can develop the skill sets necessary for self-sufficiency.--Haggas, Carol Copyright 2010 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Review by Library Journal Review

Part memoir, part homemaking guide, and part screed, Fasenfest's title introduces the rhythms of homemaking over the course of a year, with emphasis on a slower-paced way of life in which the household is a producer rather than a consumer. Monthly chapters are filled with advice, projects, and reflections for the home, kitchen, and garden. (LJ 10/1/10) (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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