Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills


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The classic guide to self-sufficiency, with more than 200,000 copies sold—now fully updated!
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...


Tags: Homesteading, Prepping, Survival & Emergency Preparedness, Outdoor Skills, traditional skills, carpentry, baking bread, Cooking & Food, Art, Crafts & Hobbies, Land, Carpentry, SHTFa

isbn:9781629143699