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Making a hazel hurdle
Inoculating a fungi log
Dehydrating fruit for storage
Making cider
Growing/foraging herb teas
Making candles
Cooking fava beans and choosing a good Chianti...
 
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How about including some basic home maintenance skills. Things like rewiring a plug or repairing a tap/toilet. That kind of thing?

I maybe out of touch - is rewiring a plug something people can or cannot do in this day and age?

My gut reaction is a No , or the next thing maybe " Put up shelves " or " Unclog sink "
 
Or what about erecting a fence with a gate to keep livestock in or building a chicken coop to keep poultry in/foxes out?
I only think that is really practical and doable if one has land to erect a fence / gate - In which case one has probably mastered some sort of fence/gate shenanigans.

I think the target demographic needs to be more despondent suburbanite.
 
1) Butcher a Whole chicken into composite cuts.
2) Bake Bread
3) Make Cheese
4) Ferment Veg in brine solution
5) Use pork belly to make Bacon
6) Butcher a Whole rabbit
7) Clean and gut a whole fish.
8) Make Soap
9) Build food smoker
10) Pickle Eggs
11 ) Make fresh pasta
12) catch a fish
13) trap or shoot a rabbit or grey squirrel
14) Start a fire without using a lighter or matches.
15) I like the idea of butchery, perhaps tanning the hide could be another one further down the line.
16) Suturing a wound.
17) Take a basic first aid course.
18) Erect a rain/wind proof shelter using a tarp, some string and home made wooden pegs. Sleep under it
19) learning how to humanely dispatch a chicken (and other poultry) by hand is a valuable skill to learn.
20) Felling trees and processing wood (for firewood and construction).
21 ) Basic leather / sewing skills. - Utilitarian handiwork e.g. Make a simple piece of leathercraft e.g. purse or card holder
22) Make a simple useable camp knife using scrap metal, a saw, a file and a heat source (maybe not PC though)
23) Plant a tree
24) Grow a tomato from seed
25 ) Save your own tomato seed
26) Take a softwood cutting
27) Take a hardwood cutting
28) Load/reload a rifle cartridge
29 )- forage a meal for two in each season (is that 1 or 4 activities?)
30) Choosing and planting hardy herbs
31) Make basic gravity fed water filter
32) Setting up a solar generator
33) Composting basics
34) Seasoning firewood
35) Milking goats (my OH has already done that course).
36) Rabbit butchery
37) make a primitive flat bow or stick bow capable of being used for small game hunting (not allowed in the UK of course).
38) Grow fungi from Kit / Inoculating a fungi log
39) Dehydrating fruit for storage

40 ) Making cider
41) Growing/foraging herb teas
42) Making candles
 
As for making candles, all the household scented, that bit at the end, save them all, egg cartons and tumble drier fluff, scent fire starters. Another skill to add to the list, plus recycling to boot!
 

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