The Farm Women's Book
1997
Schweighofer, A.
The Farm Women's Book is a handbook dealing with house, garden, field and family. It was published by Loewenzahn Press in Innsbruck (Austria) in October 1996. The book covers the following topics: the peasant self concept; the farmhouse as work and living space (furnishings, arrangement, preserving foods, cleaning); nutrition / farm cooking (oriented to regional possibilities and rooted in the social life of the peasant community); bookkeeping; household records; health; first aid and infant care; animal husbandry; bee keeping; the soil (improvement, characteristics and spade diagnosis); the farm garden; the woods; seed; wood as a source of energy (sensible heating practices); the life history of a peasant women in the South Tyrol; family and relations (the generations living together); direct marketing of farm products; income through tourism (holidays on the farm); finding marriage partners in rural areas; annotated bibliography.
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