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    Making Home: Adapting Our Homes and Our Lives to Settle in Place
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    Making Home: Adapting Our Homes and Our Lives to Settle in Place
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    Making Home: Adapting Our Homes and Our Lives to Settle in Place

    By Sharon Astyk

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    About this ebook

    • This author is a very well-read blogger and author, whose three previous books, Depletion and Abundance , A Nation of Farmers and Independence Days continue to sell well.
    • The author's approach to making home with the people in your life, and the resources you already have is extremely positive and desirable. It is presented as an art form, something to be cherished and strived for. It could be compared to the French approach to life &ndash frugal but with style and grace.
    • The book offers examples of people adapting where they are, offers strategies for finding grace and control, for saving money, using less and preserving more.
    • Audience for this book is broad. The author already has a good following, and the subject matter resonates in a country still scoured by recession, and hungry for community.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Society Publishers
    Release dateJun 1, 2012
    ISBN9781550925098
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    Making Home: Adapting Our Homes and Our Lives to Settle in Place
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    Sharon Astyk

    Sharon Astyk is a former academic who farms in upstate New York with her husband and four children, raises livestock, grows vegetables and writes about food and peak oil.

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    • 4/5
      This is a particularly wise book. Basing her thinking on Wendall Berry is an excellent start; and balancing protest, interior personal change and societal change makes total sense.