A Wilder Life: A Season-by-Season Guide to Experiencing the Great Outdoors

In our technology-driven, workaday world, connecting with nature has never before been more essential. __A Wilder Life__, a beautiful oversized lifestyle book by the team behind the popular __Wilder Quarterly__, gives readers indispensable ideas for interacting with the great outdoors. Learn to plant a night-blooming garden, navigate by reading the stars, build an outdoor shelter, make dry shampoo, identify insects, cultivate butterflies in a backyard, or tint your clothes with natural dyes. Like a modern-day __Whole Earth Catalog__, __A Wilder Life__ gives us DIY projects and old-world skills that are being reclaimed by a new generation. Divided into sections pertaining to each season and covering self-reliance, growing and gardening, cooking, health and beauty, and wilderness, and with photos and illustrations evocative of the great outdoors, __A Wilder Life__ shows that getting in touch with nature is possible no matter who you are and—more important—where you are. Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction Spring Growing A Seasonal Growing Checklist Plant Profile: Liverleaf Plant Profile: Wild Hyacinth How Plants work How to Grow From Seeds Plant a Native Garden Cooking Ingredients to Inspire A Primer on Cheese Making Make a Simple Ricotta The Greatest Scape Make Elderflower Champagne Home & Self-Reliance Prepare Your Home for the Season Dyes in the Wild Getting Started with Beekeeping How to Weave on a Frame Loom Beauty & Healing A Seasonal Apothecary Learning How to Identify Wild Bounty Make an Herbal Tincture Wilderness A Field Guide to Butterflies Finding Water in the Wild The Basics of Edible Mushroom Identification Summer Growing A Seasonal Checklist Plant Profile: Cup and Saucer Vine Plant Profile: Pawpaw Identifying Garden Pests How to Create a Night-Blooming Garden How to Hand Pollinate Cooking Ingredients to Inspire A Primer on Canning Make Rabbit's Ginger Pear Sauce Make an All-Purpose Tomato Sauce Home & Self-Reliance Prepare Your Home for the Season An Introduction to Ikebana A Primer on Composting Make Your Own Summer Sandals Beauty & Healing A Seasonal Apothecary A Primer on Healing Stones How to Blend Your Own Perfume Wilderness A Guide to the Bugs of Summer How to (Safely) Marvel at a Solar Eclipse Phenomena That Light Up the Natural World Fall Growing A Seasonal Growing Checklist Plant Profile: American Holly Plant Profile: Autumn Sage Understanding the Properties of Soil Be Picky and Save Seeds How to Force Vegetables in the Fall Cooking Ingredients to Inspire Pantry Essentials Make Pumpkin Butter Home & Self-Reliance Prepare Your Home for the Season Heat and Cool Your Home Without Electricity An Introduction to Plant-Based Ceremonies How to Make a Modern Macramé Hanging Planter Beauty & Healing A Seasonal Apothecary Setting Up Your At-Home Herbalist Pharmacy How to Make Dry Shampoo Wilderness Five Hikes of a Lifetime The Secrets of Fall's Changing Leaves How to Build an Outdoor Shelter Winter Growing A Seasonal Growing Checklist How to Make a Kokedama Grow a Winter Garden Choosing a Tree Plant Profile: Peruvian Queen Plant Profile: Camellia Cooking Ingredients to Inspire Grains in the Expanded Field Make Sauerkraut Make Kimchi at Home Home & Self-Reliance Prepare Your Home for the Season Live by Doing Help Common Birds in Your Area Thrive Give Clothes a Second Life with Sashiko Embroidery Beauty & Healing A Seasonal Apothecary Meditating in Nature How to Make a Calming Calendula Balm Wilderness Eating Winter Plants in the Wild Travel by the Sun and Stars and Never Get Lost Again Exploring Hot Springs Resources Acknowledgments Photography Credits Index About the Authors "Learn to plant a night-blooming garden, navigate by reading the stars, build an outdoor shelter, make dry shampoo, identify insects, cultivate butterflies in a backyard, or tint your clothes with natural dyes. Like a modern-day Whole Earth Catalog, [this book] gives us DIY projects and old-world skills that are being reclaimed by a new generation."-- Amazon.com