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The Back to Basics Handbook : a Guide to Buying and Working Land, Raising Livestock, Enjoying Your Harvest, Household Skills and Crafts, and More. Cover Image

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The Back to Basics Handbook : a Guide to Buying and Working Land, Raising Livestock, Enjoying Your Harvest, Household Skills and Crafts, and More

Summary: 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. With hundreds of projects, step-by-step sequences, photographs, charts, and illustrations, The Back to Basics Handbook 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 lo.

Record details

ISBN: 1626369224
ISBN: 9781626369221
Physical Description: 1 online resource (904 pages).
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Publisher: New York : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Mulch and Water: Helping Nature The Natural Way.
Formatted Contents Note:	Underground Residences And Backyard CookerySolar Water Systems: A Simple Design For Year-round Use; Assembling the Units Into a Working System; Part Three -- Raising Your Own Vegetables, Fruit, and Livestock; The Kitchen Garden; Homegrown Produce: A Delicious Sense Of Self-sufficiency; A Successful Garden Requires Planning; A Life-Giving System Beneath Our Feet; The Art and Science Of Soil Improvement; Starting the Seeds For the Garden and for Your Table; Trapping the Sun for Winter Farming; From Seed to Harvest: A Grower's Guide to Garden Favorites.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.