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

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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 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
From the Publisher

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Process
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 1, 2010
Edition ‏ : ‎ Revised
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 360 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1934170100
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1934170106
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.15 pounds
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 14 years and up
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches
Part of series ‏ : ‎ Self-reliance
Best Sellers Rank: #310,514 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #57 in Urban Gardening (Books) #211 in Small Homes & Cottages #315 in Sociology of Urban Areas
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Customers find the book informative, with helpful references to excellent resources, and appreciate its easy-to-follow content and well-written style. Moreover, they consider it a great beginner book that offers ideas that are much more doable, and one customer notes it provides a ton of jumping off points for various projects. Additionally, customers value the book’s versatility, with one mentioning it’s great for living sustainably in the city, and they enjoy its good humor.