{"product_id":"back-to-basics","title":"Back to Basics","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver 200,000 copies sold—fully updated! Dye your own wool, raise chickens, make your own cheddar cheese, build a log cabin, and much much more. 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. Read more\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"GENRES BSTIN Crafts, Hobbies \u0026 Home","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":62414830698866,"sku":"1629143693 - PB","price":98.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":62414830731634,"sku":"1629143693 - HB","price":177.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0914\/6889\/0482\/files\/81VgfaAWITL.jpg?v=1790592377","url":"https:\/\/universalreads.com\/products\/back-to-basics","provider":"Universal reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}