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 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...
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The expanded, updated version of the best-selling classic, with a dozen new projects.
Unleashing The Homesteader Within 14Chapter 1 Start Your Own Farm 20Strategies for Growing Food in the Urban Setting 20How to Make Seedballs 30Permaculture 32The Practicalities of Growing Food 34Chapter 2 Essential Projects 46Five Essential Projects 46Start a Compost Pile 46Vermiculture or Composting with Worms 51Mulch Your Yard 55Build a Raised Bed 60How to Build a Self-Watering Container 65A Treasure Chest of Gardening Projects and Advice 71How to Start Seeds 71How to Transplant 74Fertilizer Tea 77Trash Talkin' Tire Project #1: Tire Hose Caddy 78Trash Talkin' Tire Project #2: Stacking Composter 79Grow Some Lettuce 80Tips & Tricks for Gardening in Containers 83The Dirt on Potting Soll 85Installing Drip Irrigation 86How to Make a Bean Teepee 89How to Design a Polycultural Vegetable Bed 91How to Make Tater Tires 96Controlling Insect Pests 99Rotating Crops 104Animal Pests 107Why You Might Test Your Soil 110Not Digging It 112Chapter 3 Urban Foraging 116Feral Edibles 116Invasive Edibles 122Fruit Foraging 124Tools for the Fruit Harvester 125How to Eat Acorns 126Dumpster Diving 128Revive Day-Old Bread 1304 Livestock In The City 134The Chicken is the New Pug 135How to Set Up a Brooder 150Ducks 154Rabbits 156Pigeons: A Modest Proposal 157Quail 158Bees 159Chapter 5 Revolutionary Home Economics 166Preserving the Harvest 166How to Can 170Pickling via Lacto-Fermentation 173Daikon Radish Pickles 174L'hamd Markad or Preserved Salted Lemons 175Euell Gibbons' Crock 177Dehydration: Why Save it for Hangovers? 179Three Methods for Drying Food 180Preserving With Vinegar 182Preserving Fruit in Alcohol: Le Cherry Bounce 184Preserving Root Vegetables 184How to Culture Milk 186Making Yogurt 187Making Labaneh, or Yogurt Cheese 188Fil, Piima and Viila 189Cheesemaking 190Whole Milk Ricotta 190Making Butter 191How to Make Fruit Butter 193Jams and Jellies 196Making Stock 196Five Ways to Preserve a Tomato 197The Homemade Speakeasy: From Mead to Moonshine 202Baking on the Homestead 204Baking with Sourdough 204Cleaning the Urban Homestead 214Our Cleaning Cupboard 216Less Toxic Ways to Deal with Unwelcome Critters 228A Homestead of Your Own 229Location Location Location 231Chapter 6 Be Your Own Utility: Water and Power for the Homestead 238Harvesting Water 238Conserving Water 240Six Ways to Harvest Rainwater 243Become a Radical Depaver 244Smart Gutters and Downspouts 245Earthworks 246Mulch Basins 247Terracing 249Rain Barrels and Cisterns 250How Much Water Can I Harvest From My Roof? 252Non-Invasive Greywater Methodologies 257Highly Invasive Greywater Strategies 257Greywater Plumbing 101 257Showers to Flowers 260Recycling Your Suds 261Arranging a Twosome or Threesome-Using Diverters 264Making a Greywater Wetland 266The Composting Toilet: How to Poop in a Bucket 267Power to the People 270Energy Principles 270Heating 272Insulation 272Gathering Solar Heat 273The High Mass Rocket Heater 275Cooling 275How to Make a Living Awning or Shade 276We're Fans of Fans 278Water Heater 279Alternatives to the Gas-Heated Shower 281Solar Water Heaters for General Household Hot Water 282Lighting 284Stoves and Small Appliances 285Solar Cookers 285Build a Rocket Stove 288Tomato Can Stove 290Heat on the Cheap: Buddy Burners 292Electronics 294Washer & Dryer 295Refrigerator 296Dishwashers 296Generating Your Own Power 297Electricity From Solar Power-The Components 297Solar Systems: Small, Medium and Large 299Wind Power 302Chapter 7 Transportation 306Transportation Principles 306The Transportation Triangle: Walking, Biking, Mass Transit 307Walking 307Cycling 308How to Ride in Traffic 309Finding a Bike 311Route Choice 313Cargo Bikes 313Make Your Own Bike Light 316Conclusion: The Future 320Resources 324
