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Storey's curious compendium of practical and obscure skills : 214 things you can actually learn how to do.

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Storey Publishing, 2020.

Life skills -- Miscellanea.

Home economics -- Miscellanea.

Do-it-yourself work.

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Curious compendium of practical and obscure skills : 214 things you can actually learn how to do

214 things you can actually learn how to do

Practical and obscure skills : 214 things you can actually learn how to do

344 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.

"From the How-To Experts at Storey Publishing."

Includes bibliographical references (paged 338-341) and index.

Build a fire pit for outdoor roasting -- Smoke meat on the stove -- Make more houseplants for free -- Build a self-watering container for houseplants -- Make a terrarium -- Stitch leather -- Make a leather belt -- Mount a horse -- Dismount a horse in an emergency -- Predict the weather by the clouds -- Navigate by the sun, moon, and stars -- Make probiotic pickles -- Make sauerkraut -- Make tempeh -- Grow a straw bale garden -- Grow vegetables in bags -- Grow upside-down vegetables in a 5-gallon bucket -- Dye your hair with herbs make toothpaste and hair conditioner -- Learn about nature by drawing it -- Make prints from nature -- Weave a paper basket -- Make paper in a tin can -- Make a pop-up paper lantern -- Make a flowerpot smoker -- Bake bread in a flowerpot -- Tell the difference between a sheep and a goat -- Milk a goat -- Make Greek yogurt -- Make farmhouse cheddar -- Restore a forgotten fruit tree -- Growing a fruiting espalier -- Carve a wooden spoon -- Braid a rug -- Know your honey bees -- Put together a beehive -- Extract honey -- Make medicinal honey -- Make a water filter from a 2-liter bottle make a still for collecting water -- Grow a garden to help you sleep -- Make a tincture to ease aches and pains -- Make antifatigue essential oil drops -- Read your weeds for pasture management -- Use weeds to treat bites and rashes -- Make a reusable dish cover -- Make bees wax candles -- Store potatoes seven ways -- Store winter vegetables -- Give a full body massage -- Give a foot massage -- Relieve carpal tunnel syndrome -- Sheer a sheep in 10 steps -- Make 4 little projects from scraps of felted wool -- Make pot holders from recycled sweaters -- Rewire a table lamp -- Re-cover a lampshade make beer the easy way -- Pour a beer for great foam -- Build a raised garden bed -- Build a garden dolly from a golf cart -- Bake gravy cookies for your dog -- Teach your dog to weave through your legs -- Set up a dog agility course -- Darn socks -- Patch clothing -- Unclog a drain without chemicals -- Thaw frozen pipes -- Fix a burst pipe -- Make compost in four easy steps -- Build a movable compost bin -- Make compost with worms -- Identify animal tracks -- Spot common signs of wildlife -- Speak chicken -- Catch a chicken -- Bathe a chicken -- Make body butter -- Make a super skin salve make herb-infused oil -- Understand the anatomy of a timber frame -- Build a homestead in (and from) the woods -- Grow the most vegetables possible -- Can your bountiful harvest -- Blanch and freeze vegetables -- Dry herbs -- Make herbal vinegar -- Yoke and hitch and ox team -- Move a pig -- Move a cow -- Make a t-shirt quilt -- Make a cardigan from a t-shirt -- Make quick strawberry jam -- Dry fruit -- Test the freshness of an egg -- Identify 10 popular chicken breeds -- Field dress a deer -- Scout for deer -- Clean a fish -- Shuck an oyster -- Dig clams -- Knit a hat without a pattern -- Knit a scarf that records the weather -- Finger knit -- Make your hellstrip heavenly -- Create an edible driveway hedge -- Learn how to never mow again -- Find your way around the night sky -- Make silky-smooth shaving cream -- Make a natural aftershave tonic -- Plant a tree (or shrub) -- Rejuvenate a shrub -- Grow a lemon tree indoors -- Hang a tire swing using a bowline knot -- Make a heavenly hammock (and learn another knot) -- Build a tin can stove -- Sharpen and hone a knife -- Cut up a chicken -- Carve a turkey -- Peel a tomato the easy way -- Save tomato seeds -- Grow vegetables vertically -- Make easy, perfect pie crust -- Make a lattice-top pie -- Learn five funky chicken coop designs -- Identify 10 native pollinators -- Hive a new colony of bees -- Capture a swarm of bees -- Fix a flat bicycle tire -- Put your bike chain back on -- Make large gardening pots with hypertufa -- Grow plants from seed -- Grow an avocado tree from a pit -- Bottle-feed a baby goat -- Clip a cat's claws -- Make cat chow cookies -- Teach your cat to jump through a hoop -- Cut hay -- Eat wild plants -- Grow mushrooms on logs -- Make an inner tube stool -- Build a clap table -- Identify and tap a maple tree -- Make maple syrup -- Make easy fruit wine -- Know birds by their song -- Understand the language of crows -- Identify beef cuts -- Identify pork cuts -- Make jerky -- Make fresh sausage -- Grow a sprout salad -- Create a pollinator-friendly meadow -- Build a butterfly landscape -- Make a chunnel (chicken tunnel) -- Milk a cow -- Make cream cheese -- Make butter -- Crochet a pair of earrings -- Finger crochet -- Set up a lobster-clambake -- Eat a lobster -- Remove a limb from a living tree -- Sharpen a chainsaw -- Go owling -- Adjust binoculars to avoid eye strain -- Make a wreath -- Change a flat car tire -- Make biodiesel -- Jump-start a car battery -- Make herbal energy balls -- Make no-knead sourdough bread -- Make charcoal in a homemade crucible -- Bake bread over coals -- Make medicinal basil pesto -- Make bitters -- Read a rabbit's body language -- Pick up and carry a rabbit -- Tell if a rabbit is pregnant -- Divide perennials -- Pollinate by hand -- Hold a farm bird -- Determine whether a chicken is healthy -- Identify the scat of predators -- Split firewood -- Stack firewood and keep it stable -- Build a wall with cordwood -- Sharpen an ax -- Hang an ax -- Make kombucha -- Identify a horse's gait -- Read a horse's body language -- French-braid a horse's tail -- Fix a toilet that runs constantly -- Consider a composting toilet -- Build a wattle fence -- Build a stepping-stone path -- Build drystone wall -- Harvest rainwater -- Divert kitchen sink graywater to the landscape -- Create a laundry-to-landscape graywater system -- Spatchcock a chicken -- Render animal fat -- Make a medicinal infusion -- Make a medicinal decoction -- Make Rosemary's original fire cider -- Make herbal pills -- Make seven tents from tarps -- Build a tiny shelter on wheels -- Reupholster a seat -- Sew a pretty pillowcase -- Build a manually operated outdoor shower -- Fix a broken windowpane -- Skills by topic -- Metric conversion chart.

"Have you ever wondered how to...Grow your own food, craft and mend your own clothes, handle and train animals, forage for wild food, whip up silky smooth shaving cream, carve a wooden spoon, make your own medicine, cook over an open fire, weave a paper basket, turn your kitchen into a fermentation lab? Make build and grow. (...) "--Back cover.

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