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Back to basics : a complete guide to traditional skills / edited by Abigail R. Gehring.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: Fourth edition, updated and revisedDescription: 528 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1629143693
  • 9781629143699
Subject(s):
Contents:
"Buying and working land, raising livestock, generating your own energy, enjoying your harvest, household skills and crafts, and more" -- Cover.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 640.973 B126 Mending 33111007676543
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Buying and working land, raising livestock, generating your own energy, enjoying your harvest, household skills and crafts, and more" -- Cover.

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