Back to Basics (eBook)

A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills

Abigail Gehring (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2008
464 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62873-808-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Anyone who wants to learn basic living skillsthe kind employed by our forefathersand 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 dreamerseven 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.4.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Familie / Erziehung
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Schlagworte: Alternative energy sources • baking bread • Beekeeping • book on beekeeping • build a fence • building a barn • buying land • camping in the woods • DIY • Do it yourself • energy efficient • farmer's cookbook • farming • fish farming • Food storage • frugavore • Gardening • gardening cookbook • generate your own energy • harvesting food • heating with wood • Herb Garden • holiday inspiration • homegrown food • home projects • household skills and crafts • how to bake bread • how to book • keeping bees • kitchen garden • living lightly • living with nature • locally farmed food • locally sourced food • locally sourced produce • locavore • make your own cheese energy efficiency • maple sugar • mini gardening • Natural Living • old-fashioned living • outdoors living • pest control • preserving fish • preserving meat • preserving produce • raising livestock • Self-Sufficiency • self-sufficiency handbook • self-sufficient cookbook • simple living • small-space gardening • Solar energy • storing food • traditional skills • weaving baskets • wilderness camping • Wind Power • working land
• ISBN-10: 1-62873-808-1 / 1628738081
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62873-808-7 / 9781628738087