[permaculture] The Urban Homestead (Expanded & Revised Edition): Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Process Self-reliance Series)
From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <venaurafarm@bellsouth.net>
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Subject: [permaculture] The Urban Homestead (Expanded & Revised Edition): Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Process Self-reliance Series)
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
About the Author
Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen are creators of the blog
homegrownrevolution.org, a green living and self-sufficiency resource
for urbanites. They contribute regularly to Daniel Pinchbeck's new
online magazine, realitysandwich.com. They live in Los Angeles. Kelly
Coyne and Erik Knutzen are creators of the blog homegrownrevolution.org,
a green living and self-sufficiency resource for urbanites. They
contribute regularly to Daniel Pinchbeck's new online magazine,
realitysandwich.com. They live in Los Angeles"
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/11/revised-edition-of-t.html
"The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart
of the City, by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen is one of the most
inspiring books I've ever read. It's honest, non-utopian, approach gave
me the courage to try my hand at raising chickens, composting, growing
vegetables, and practice old school food preservation methods.
In my 2008 review of the book, I wrote, "Unlike many self-sufficiency
books, this one isn't preachy, unrealistic, or dogmatic. Instead, it's
honest and often humorous. Kelly and Erik (who run the Homegrown
Evolution blog) are wonderfully lucid and accessible writers. They also
walk the walk -- I visited their Los Angeles home and spent a wonder
couple of hours touring their abundant vegetable gardens and henhouse
filled with clownlishly entertaining chickens."
I was pleased to learn that The Urban Homestead has been expanded and
revised. The new projects include:
• How to sterilize jars and bottles
• How to make infused oil
• Six ways to preserve a tomato
• How to make soda bread
• How to store grain with dry ice
• How to make a tomato can stove
• How to make a Viet Nam light
• How to make a Euell Gibbon’s crock
• How to make L’hamd markad, or preserved, salted lemons
• How to make a bike lightp"
[permaculture] The Urban Homestead (Expanded & Revised Edition): Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Process Self-reliance Series),
Lawrence F. London, Jr., 06/11/2010