Topics covered include: Generating your own energy Herbal medicine Cheese-making Maple sugaring Farm mechanics Building a smokehouse Dyeing wool Composting Disaster. Gehring See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 25.38 Paperback 14. Fully updated and revised, this is the classic. Gehring on all DVD & Blu-ray Home & Garden Books > Home Improvement Books ISBN: 0534927955 ISBN13: 9780534927950 Advanced Engineering Mathematics Student Solutions Manual by Abigail R.

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. From canning and preserving to keeping chickens, fermenting vegetables to soap-making, Gehring covers all the basics in this easy-to-read, approachable collection. BACK TO BASICS, FOURTH EDITION REVISED: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills. 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. The truly ambitious will find instructions on how to build a log cabin or an adobe brick homestead. 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. 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.

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.

Back to Basics by Abigail R. Gehring