Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills
by Gehring, Abigail | New BookDescription
Over 200,000 copies sold--fully updated! Dye your own wool, raise chickens, make your own cheddar cheese, build a log cabin, and much much more. Anyone who wants to learn basic living skills--the kind employed by our forefathers--and adapt them for a better life in the twenty-first century need look no further than this eminently useful, full-color guide. Countless readers have turned to Back to Basics for inspiration and instruction, escaping to an era before power saws and fast-food restaurants and rediscovering the pleasures and challenges of a healthier, greener, and more self-sufficient lifestyle. Now newly updated, the hundreds of projects, step-by-step sequences, photographs, charts, and illustrations in Back to Basics will help you dye your own wool with plant pigments, graft trees, raise chickens, craft a hutch table with hand tools, and make treats such as blueberry peach jam and cheddar cheese. The truly ambitious will find instructions on how to build a log cabin or an adobe brick homestead. More than just practical advice, this is also a book for dreamers--even if you live in a city apartment, you will find your imagination sparked, and there's no reason why you can't, for example, make a loom and weave a rag rug. Complete with tips for old-fashioned fun (square dancing calls, homemade toys, and kayaking tips), this may be the most thorough book on voluntary simplicity available.
| Author(s): | Gehring, Abigail |
|---|---|
| Book Type: | New Book |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: | 1629143693 |
| EAN: | 9781629143699 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of Pages: | 456 |
| Publication Date: | 2014-10-14 |
| Publisher: | Skyhorse Publishing |
| Weight: | 3.55 Pounds |
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