A sensible man watches for problems ahead and prepares to meet them. The simpleton never looks, and suffers the consequences.
Proverbs 27:12
Learning New Skills
Whether the motivation is loss of job, green living, peak oil, or the simple desire for a more self-sufficient lifestyle, more and more people are looking at the skills of old with increasing interest. While the current culture offers much in the way of technological advances, increasing numbers of people have found that technology doesn’t completely satisfy in the same way as the feeling of accomplishment in doing something by hand. The problem is that so many people who relied on these traditional skills are either long gone or have given them up. Therefore, most people don’t know anyone who can teach them the things they want to do.
For example, want to know how to build a smokehouse? Build a sauna? Erect a stone wall? Use solar or water energy? Handcraft a chair? Make a broom? Play simple old-time games? Make Sally Lunn? Sew a rag doll? Do windowsill farming? Create natural cosmetics in the kitchen? Make cottage cheese? If so, this is the book for you. Full of useful and step-by-step instructions, it covers many skills everyone took for granted only a couple of generations ago.