But if I was a teenager, I would be studying
farming techniques
Small animal husbandry
Frontier medicine
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Making and using hand tools...
The art of making clothes...
But if the production of cloth fails....
When was the last time you saw a spinning wheel?
much less, knew how to use one
Rawhide?
I do woodworking as a hobby and I’ve been using hand tools for a few years for most of my work. One of the trends in that hobby has been an increase in the quality and quantity of hand tools available, as well as more instruction in the ‘old ways’.
Blacksmithing also interests me, and I wonder if it is some gut feeling amongst many of us to re-learn some of these manual trades, either for “just-in-case” or because we feel something terrible is coming.
My interest in these manual trades started before I consciously thought any kind of global meltdown was coming.