This book is not about looking back with regret to former, apparently simpler times. It is about learning and using those skills that made it possible for people to live a self sufficient, low impact and highly satisfying life over the last hundred or so years and applying them to the complex times we find ourselves in today. Many people these days are looking for a better way of living - where profit is measured in terms of harvest and not gain; where food is homemade and wholesome; and where a day's work is rewarded by the sharing of food, materials and the comfort they bring for family or friends. This book is unashamedly about social and family ways. Non-judgemental about any person, it has a simple aim: to bring people and the means of life, be it baking bread or growing vegetables, brewing beer or preserving food, closer together. Grandma's ways represents a large repository of knowledge that we have either forgotten or believe to be of no relevance to these modern days. But they are relevant and, with a little modification for these busy modern times, techniques such as curing food, keeping hens, growing vegetables, making candles and a host of other things will bring us not only closer to the products we enjoy but closer to benefiting from the work we do for ourselves. Culture is what makes life bearable. This book is therefore based in our traditional customs and ways of life. It looks forward to a different kind of personal freedom working and living for self, family and for others by making those things you need for an expansive, enjoyable and productive life.
AUTHOR BIOG:
Paul and Diana Peacock practise self-sufficiency in Manchester. They believe strongly that the way we live is changing towards making more of our own food, and even some of the goods we use from day to day. Paul has written extensively for the gardening press, edits the Home Farmer Magazine with Diana, and has written fifteen books on gardening, self-sufficiency, beekeeping, wild food, and butchering. Diana has over thirty years experience of caring for a family of five, often on a tight budget, and is the author of two books on home baking and jam and preserves.
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