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The Back to Basics Handbook: A Guide to Buying and Working Land, Raising Livestock, Enjoying Your Harvest, Household Skills and Crafts, and More (Back to Basics Guides)

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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. With hundreds of projects, step-by-step sequences, photographs, charts, and illustrations, The Back to Basics Handbook 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 is the ultimate concise guide to voluntary simplicity.

Synopsis:

Rediscover the pleasures and challenges of a healthier, greener, and more self-sufficient lifestyle.

About the Author

Abigail R. Gehring is the editor of Back to Basics, Homesteading, and Self-Sufficiency, and author of Odd Jobs and Dangerous Jobs. She’s practiced living self-sufficiently since her childhood in Vermont, being home-schooled, home-canning jams and jellies, and enjoying natural crafts. She lives in New York City and Windham, Vermont.

Product Details

ISBN:
9781616082611
Author:
Gehring, Abigail R
Publisher:
Skyhorse Publishing
Author:
Gehring, Abigail R.
Subject:
Cleaning & Caretaking
Subject:
Cooking and Food-Household Management
Series:
Back to Basics Guides
Publication Date:
20110531
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
Illustrations:
500 color illustrations
Pages:
272
Dimensions:
10 x 7 in

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