Getting Rid of Alders
100 Seasons of Country Living
from the pages of Rural Delivery magazine
edited by Kevin MacDonell

Problem with porcupines? Curious about caring for cast-iron cookware? Something to say about spring greens or scarecrows? Then perhaps you're one of many Maritime readers who for 25 years have called on Rural Delivery magazine to share their stories about farm and country living and its challenges. That's 100 seasons of genuine insight into everything from farming and gardening to home remedies and do-it-yourself gadgetry.

Published by DvL Publishing Inc., 2001. ISBN 1-55109-381-2. Softcover, 275 pages with index, $29.95. Scroll down for more information.
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"Crammed with advice . . . . Captivating reading, even for city slickers." (Harry Bruce, Saltscapes Magazine)

"Attractive, fun and packed with good information . . . . One fine book." (David Swick, The Daily News)

"Brisk, entertaining, informative . . . . A handy anthology for anyone with an interest in gardening, farming, old methods of doing things from cooking to handling farm animals." (Frank Macdonald, The Oran)

"A valuable handbook of rural life, to be read and savoured time and again." (Jodi DeLong, The Co-operator)



"Getting Rid of Alders," the title for this compilation of the best of Rural Delivery, comes from a particularly successful round of suggestions that occurred when a reader asked: "When is the best time of year to cut alders so they don't grow back?" The exchange, like all the articles, stories, and letters in the magazine's pages, is a parade of practical advice. But Getting Rid of Alders is more than a useful almanac. It is a charming and readable collection of country wisdom straight from the people who use family tradition, folklore, and experience as their guide.

Here's what you'll read about in Getting Rid of Alders:

Alders, Animals, Apples, Ashes, Barns, Beekeeping, Beverages, Birds, Blueberries, Bread, Butter, Candle Making, Cast Iron Cookware, Cats, Chickens, Christmas, Cloches, Cold Frames, Compost, Cooking and Baking, Cows, Coyotes, Crows, Cures and Remedies, Dandelions, Death, Deer, Desserts and Sweets, Dogs, Dowsing, Ducks, Edible Wild Plants, Eelgrass, Eggs, Eye Stones, The Family Herald, Farming, Feeds and Feeding, Ferns, Fish and Fishing, Fog, Folk Medicine, Folklore, Frost, Fruit, Gardening, Geese, Ghosts, Goats, Great Canadian Big Egg Contest, Hallowe,en, Harvest, Haymaking, Herbs, Herding, Honey, Horses, Hotbeds, House Banking, Hurricanes, Incubators, Jams and Jellies, LaHave Rakes, Lambs and Lambing, Manure, Maple Sugar, Mastitis, Milk and Milking, Mincemeat, Mother,s Day, Pests, Pigs and Piglets, Poultry, Preserving, Pumpkin Recipes, Raccoons, Remedies, Reusing and Recycling, Rhubarb, Rural Life, Scarecrows, Season Extenders, Seaweed, Seeds and Seedlings, Sheep, Slugs, Sourdough, Spring Greens, Storms, Strawberries, Sweat Lodges, Teas, Tomatoes, Tools and Homemade Thingamabobs, Vegetables, Weather Lore, Weeds and Weeding, Wild Flowers, Wine, Wood Heat, Work, and Writing!

That's 94 stories by 57 authors! Plus tons of selected recipes, poems, household tips and more from 183 other contributors to Rural Delivery over the years! The book is richly illustrated with more than 220 line drawings.