Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills Third Edition

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 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 may be the most thorough book on voluntary simplicity available. 2000 color photos and 200 black-and-white illustrations.[]

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Simpler Living: A Back to Basics Guide to Cleaning Furnishing Storing Decluttering Streamlining Organizing and More

The companion to Back to Basics and Homesteading: simple practical proven advice to reduce the stress of modern living.

Life moves too quickly these days as technology work and personal commitments make it almost impossible to relax and enjoy life. Finding yourself stressed over the clutter in your kitchen or the mass of paper in front of your computer? Relax. This book will help. Filled with tips on how to uncomplicate your daily routine eliminate stress at home and work and more this book will help you free up your time so you can once again enjoy doing the things you love. Author Jeff Davidson has compiled more than 1500 ways that you can simplify your life.

Divided into sections for easy reference this book will show you ways you can eliminate stress in your home your personal life and in your professional life. You will learn the six questions you should ask yourself before buying something new the most efficient way to clean your pots and pans the pay-ahead technique to get yourself out of debt ways to make your commute more comfortable and advice on hassle-free vacation planning for you and your family. This book is the guide you’ve been looking for to lead the peaceful productive life you’ve always wanted. 1000 color photographs[]

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State Series Quarters Collector Map

This is the State Series Quarters Collector Map by Whitman®. / / FEATURES: A beautiful 4-color oversized 3-fold folder with snap latch. / Color-coded map of the United States will showcase one of each / state quarter design. / Each coin opening located on the map has the state's logo. / Educational details of each state including their statehood / date capital state bird flower etc. / INCLUDES: (1) Folder / / SPECS: Folded Size: 12.5"" x 13.5"" / Open Size: 37.5"" x 13.5"" / kr11/6/06[]

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Animal Vegetable Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver returns with her first nonfiction narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.

"As the U.S. population made an unprecedented mad dash for the Sun Belt one carload of us paddled against the tide heading for the Promised Land where water falls from the sky and green stuff grows all around. We were about to begin the adventure of realigning our lives with our food chain.

"Naturally our first stop was to buy junk food and fossil fuel. . . ."

Hang on for the ride: With characteristic poetry and pluck Barbara Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial-food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood grow it themselves or learn to live without it. Their good-humored search yields surprising discoveries about turkey sex life and overly zealous zucchini plants en route to a food culture that's better for the neighborhood and also better on the table. Part memoir part journalistic investigation Animal Vegetable Miracle makes a passionate case for putting the kitchen back at the center of family life and diversified farms at the center of the American diet.

"This is the story of a year in which we made every attempt to feed ourselves animals and vegetables whose provenance we really knew . . . and of how our family was changed by our first year of deliberately eating food produced from the same place where we worked went to school loved our neighbors drank the water and breathed the air."

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