Back to Basics - A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills (Hardcover, 4th Edition)

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.

General

Imprint:	Skyhorse Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Back to Basics Guides
Release date:	October 2014
First published:	October 2014
Editors:	Abigail Gehring
Dimensions:	289 x 225 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Paper over boards
Pages:	528
Edition:	4th Edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-62914-369-9
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Self-help & practical interests > General Promotions
LSN:	1-62914-369-3
Barcode:	9781629143699

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