The Back to Basics Handbook: A Guide to Buying and Working Land, Raising Livestock, Enjoying Your Harvest, Household Skills and Crafts, and More (3rd Edition)
Abigail R. Gehring
Language: English
Pages: 450
ISBN: 2:00181332
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Rediscover 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. 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 log cabin or an adobe brick homestead.
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. Complete with tips for old-fashioned fun (square dancing calls, homemade toys, and kayaking tips), this is the ultimate concise guide to voluntary simplicity. 500 color illustrations
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Pits, and peel if called for in recipe. Cut up large fruits, such as peaches. Measure exact boiling point of water. 2. Put fruit into kettle, first crushing bottom layer. (Add water if fruit has arecipe instructions. 3. Add sugar (and lemon juice if acid content is low). insert thermometer. Return mixture to boiling, stirring constantly to prevent scorching. 4. Boil rapidly, stirring constantly, until temperature reaches 8°F to 10°F above boiling point of water. Remove from heat.
Sun or drier for two to seven days to dry. When preserves are thick, pack into sterilized jars and refrigerate or freeze. Vegetable Powder Use any thoroughly dried vegetable for this recipe. Grind vegetables in blender and store. Add dried powder to boiling water to make instant vegetable soup, or add to stews and casseroles to enhance flavor. Tomato Paste italian plum type tomatoes, which have less juice, are best for this recipe, but any type of tomato may be used. Put tomatoes into.
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Idea is to let the biological action of bacteria and fungi heat the interior of the compost pile to 150°F, killing weed seeds and disease organisms. The most efficient way to produce compost is in a bin or container to keep the material from spilling out. A compost pile is built up like a layer cake with each layer watered as it is completed. Optimum height for a compost pile is about 4 feet. A lower pile loses too much heat; a higher one tends to pack down and interfere with the biological.
Lines with help of Pythagorean formula. stakes A and B mark corners of known line x. Length of side y is specified in plans. Compute length of z by adding together square of side x and square of side y; z equals the square root of sum (z = . Now attach tape equal in length to z to stake A and another tape equal in length to y to stake B. The point on the ground where both tapes are stretched tight when held together is correct spot for C. 2. Complete corner stake layout by using methods.