The Urban Homestead (Expanded & Revised Edition)

Synopsis

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 TimesThis 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 balconyPreserve or ferment food and make yogurt and cheeseCompost with wormsKeep city chickensDivert your grey water to your gardenClean your house without toxinsGuerilla garden in public spacesCreate the modern homestead of your dreams

Copyright:

2008

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781934170212

Related ISBNs:

9781934170106

Publisher:

Process

Date of Addition:

09/24/14

Copyrighted By:

Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Reference, Health, Mind and Body, Home and Garden, Outdoors and Nature, Earth Sciences

Grade Levels:

Eighth grade

Submitted By:

Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.