Back to basics : a complete guide to traditional skills / edited by Abigail R. Gehring.
Offers information and instructions on living a greener, more self-sufficient lifestyle, including how to build a log cabin, how to raise livestock, and how to make candles.
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- ISBN: 9781629143699
- ISBN: 1629143693
- Physical Description: 528 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
- Edition: Fourth edition, updated and revised.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2014]
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | "Buying and working land, raising livestock, generating your own energy, enjoying your harvest, household skills and crafts, and more" -- Cover. |
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Back to Basics : A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills
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Back to Basics : A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills
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.