The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City

The expanded, updated version of the best-selling classic, with a dozen new projects.A delightfully readable and very...
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Author: Kelly Coyne
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Language: English
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The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City by Coyne, Kelly

The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City

€25,82

The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City

€25,82
Author: Kelly Coyne
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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



Author: Kelly Coyne, Erik Knutzen
Publisher: Process
Published: 06/01/2010
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781934170106
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Entertainment Weekly 06/25/2010 pg. 78
Library Journal 02/01/2014 pg. 39

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.

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