Discover the joys of homesteading as the author sets out to experience the satisfaction of making bread, keeping chickens, growing vegetables, and sewing clothing.

Aims to help homeowners live self-sufficiently, including growing their own food, cooking meals from scratch, keeping animals, making homemade cleaning and skin-care products, and making homemade gifts.

This book was created by Altamont High School students. The book is about the Upper Country of Uinta Basin. Subjects are: building up the country, making do, making home run smoothly, from sagebrush to farms, medicine, school days and work and play. The book is compiled of interviews with pioneers living in the Upper Uinta Basin.