Passionate Freewriting- Learning to Live Naturally Within a Modern Society

I think that we have lost something by not being able to do things for ourselves anymore. I think we should know what raw milk tastes like. and that you can skim the cream off the top and make butter and buttermilk from it. Or add cultures to the skimmed milk and make cheese and whey...and then you can ferment other foods with the whey! I've been learning about so many things like this recently and I'm so impressed. But I' also disappointed that we have gotten so far from self-sufficiency. I like to garden but I desperate want to be good at it. I read a great book a couple years ago called "Radical Homemakers" by Shannon Hayes. It's such an easy read and it does a great job of giving options on how to incorporate traditional preparations(of food, clothes, energies) into our normal lives. I would recommend this book to anyone looking to return a bit to the basics.