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

English

Series: Back to Basics Guides

ISBN: 1616082615

EAN: 9781616082611

Category: House & Home / Sustainable Living/Social Science / Sociology / Rural/

Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated

Release Date: 05/24/2011

Synopsis: 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 theres no reason why you cant, 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.

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

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Edition: 3

Height: 0.8 inches

Width: 7.1 inches

Length: 10.0 inches

Weight: 29.1 oz

Pages: 272