Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills (Back to Basics Guides)

Over 200000 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.

Series: Back to Basics Guides

Hardcover: 456 pages

Publisher: Skyhorse; 4th edition (October 14 2014)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1629143693

ISBN-13: 978-1629143699

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Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 1.1 x 11 inches

Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds