Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills
Author(s): Abigail R. Gehring
Helps 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. This title is suitable for those who want to learn basic living skills - the kind employed by our forefathers - and adapt them for a better life in the 21st century.
Product Information
Rediscover the good life and get back to basics - a complete guide to a simpler, more self-sufficient and economical way of life
Abigail R. Gehring is an editor and freelance writer in New York City, who grew up in Vermont. She spent most of her post-college existence as a dancer. She has made ends meet as a tattoo artist, "Cinderella", cater-waiter, swimming companion to an elderly man with Alzheimer's, and countless other eclectic positions. From childhood she has been fascinated with simple living, participating in barn-raisings, home canning, and enjoying countless hours of natural crafts.
General Fields
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- : Constable and Robinson
- : Robinson Publishing
- : 0.28
- : 28 January 2010
- : 280mm X 225mm X 25mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Abigail R. Gehring
- : Hardback
- : 3
- : 456