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 t