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Life skills -- Miscellanea.
Home economics -- Miscellanea.
Do-it-yourself work.
MARC Display
Storey's curious compendium of practical and obscure skills : 214 things you can actually learn how to do.
Storey Publishing, 2020.
Call #:
640
.41
S884
Subjects
Life skills -- Miscellanea.
Home economics -- Miscellanea.
Do-it-yourself work.
ISBN:
9781635861914
Alternate title:
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
Description:
344 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Notes:
"From the How-To Experts at Storey Publishing."
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (paged 338-341) and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
"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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Storey Communications.
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