A primer on self-reliance and rural skills, this is a large-format book of456 pages lavishly illustrated with photographs and drawings, about half infull color. Here are 57 subjects, many with subsets, as in gardening, whichincludes information on soil, cultivation methods, making and using agreenhouse, and specific information on many veggies, herbs, fruits. Somepresentations are simplistic, like telling you how to find and evaluate afarm or can produce in only four pages. Building and using a smokehousegets one page. Using dairy products butters ten pages. Woodworking andfurniture making nail down thirty pages. Build and decorate a house and thechairs, tables, beds to furnish it. Build a springhouse, a dam, a well, awater system. Grow vegetables, fruits, grains. Raise bees, fish, chickens,ducks, geese, rabbits, hogs, sheep, goats, cows, horses. Make cheese, maplesyrup, beer, wine, bread, soap, candles, baskets. Cook with wood. Spinyarn, use natural dyes, make cloth, quilts, rugs, hammocks. Learn tanningand leather work, tinsmithing, blacksmithing, toolmaking. Celebrate harvestand holidays with traditional decorations, recipes, toys, games, dances.Learn camping, hiking, fishing, canoeing, snowshoeing, skiing. Whew! Thisbook will keep you happily occupied for several decades.Click Here to see more reviews about: Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills, Third Edition (Hardcover)
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