Carla Emery: Author of the Old Fashioned Recipe Book

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May/June 1975
By the Mother Earth News editors 
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So I already know that we—the Emery family—are going to, sooner or later, realize our dream no matter what happens at the hearing. It's the valley I'm worried about and I only hope the other people who live there will let us help save it. And I think they will.

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PLOWBOY: OK, let's see now. This is February and the hearing won't take place until mid-April. And if this matter drags out the way such hearings usually do, it may well be this time next year before you know whether or not you'll be allowed to build the School of Country Living on your present site. What are you going to do between now and then?

EMERY: The children and I are going to keep traveling around the country and appearing on television and talking on the radio and doing interviews like this with newspapers and magazines. And that will make a certain number of orders for the Old Fashioned Recipe Book flow into our office in Idaho. And we're planning to at least go ahead and plant 20 acres of truck garden on the School site this summer no matter what happens. And we're going to plant grain. We're going to go right on as if everyone already knew that the School will be a definite reality by the spring of 1976.

PLOWBOY: And you don't feel as if your plans are being set back in any way?

EMERY: Are you kidding? I'm the gal, remember, who took four years to write a book she thought she could do in two months! I'm used to setbacks. I'm famous for them. But I did—with a lot of help from the Lord, my family, and hundreds of good people—get that book written . . . and it was much better when I got it done than anyone had expected.

And that's the way it's going to be with the School of Country Living. We are going to have the School. Somewhere. Sometime. We just aren't sure yet exactly where and when that School will be built. And I'm probably going to be as surprised as everyone else when we all learn the answers to those questions . . . and when we all see how much better the finished School is than we ever expected it to be! 

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