The Urban Homestead (Expanded & Revised Edition): Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City

The Urban Homestead (Expanded & Revised Edition): Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City


Author: Kelly Coyne, Erik Knutzen
ISBN-13: 9781934170212
Publisher: Process
Publication date: 06/01/2010
Series: Process Self-reliance Series
eBook Format: EPUB
Length: 308 pages
File size: 2.30MB

The expanded, updated version of the best-selling classic, with a dozen new projects.

"A delightfully readable and very useful guide to front- and back-yard vegetable gardening, food foraging, food preserving, chicken keeping, and other useful skills for anyone interested in taking a more active role in growing and preparing the food they eat."
—BoingBoing.net

"...the contemporary bible on the subject."
—The New York Times

This celebrated, essential handbook shows how to grow and preserve your own food, clean your house without toxins, raise chickens, gain energy independence, and more. Step-by-step projects, tips, and anecdotes will help get you started homesteading immediately. The Urban Homestead is also a guidebook to the larger movement and will point you to the best books and Internet resources on self-sufficiency topics.

Written by city dwellers for city dwellers, this copiously illustrated, two-color instruction book proposes a paradigm shift that will improve our lives, our community, and our planet. By growing our own food and harnessing natural energy, we are planting seeds for the future of our cities.

Learn how to:

Grow food on a patio or balcony

Preserve or ferment food and make yogurt and cheese

Compost with worms

Keep city chickens

Divert your grey water to your garden

Clean your house without toxins

Guerilla garden in public spaces

Create the modern homestead of your dreams

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