The Back to Basics Handbook

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

• Author(s): Abigail Gehring,
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster
• Pages: 272
• ISBN_10: 1626369224
  ISBN_13: 9781626369221
  
• Language: en
• Categories: House & Home / Sustainable Living , House & Home / Cleaning, Caretaking & Organizing , House & Home / Small Spaces , House & Home / Design & Construction , House & Home / Remodeling & Renovation , House & Home / Reference , Gardening / Techniques , Gardening / Garden Design , Gardening / Organic , Gardening / Herbs , Cooking / Entertaining , Cooking / Reference ,

Description:... 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.