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Overview

the urban homestead is the essential handbook for a fast-growing new movement: urbanites are becoming gardeners and farmers. This fun, hands-on guide shows anyone who lives in the city or suburbs how to enjoy a more satisfying lifestyle and plant seeds for the sustainable future of our cities.

If you ever thought of turning your lawn or balcony into a garden, making your own organic jam, raising chickens in the backyard or learning hot to haritess natural energy, here are dozens of step-by-step projects to get you started homesteading immediately, whether you live in an apartment or a house.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781934170106
  • Publisher: Process
  • Publication date: 5/1/2010
  • Pages: 330
  • Sales rank: 149,549
  • Series: Process Self-reliance Series
  • Product dimensions: 6.56 (w) x 9.02 (h) x 0.74 (d)

Meet 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.

Table of Contents

Unleashing The Homesteader Within 14

Chapter 1 Start Your Own Farm 20

Strategies for Growing Food in the Urban Setting 20

How to Make Seedballs 30

Permaculture 32

The Practicalities of Growing Food 34

Chapter 2 Essential Projects 46

Five Essential Projects 46

Start a Compost Pile 46

Vermiculture or Composting with Worms 51

Mulch Your Yard 55

Build a Raised Bed 60

How to Build a Self-Watering Container 65

A Treasure Chest of Gardening Projects and Advice 71

How to Start Seeds 71

How to Transplant 74

Fertilizer Tea 77

Trash Talkin' Tire Project #1: Tire Hose Caddy 78

Trash Talkin' Tire Project #2: Stacking Composter 79

Grow Some Lettuce 80

Tips & Tricks for Gardening in Containers 83

The Dirt on Potting Soll 85

Installing Drip Irrigation 86

How to Make a Bean Teepee 89

How to Design a Polycultural Vegetable Bed 91

How to Make Tater Tires 96

Controlling Insect Pests 99

Rotating Crops 104

Animal Pests 107

Why You Might Test Your Soil 110

Not Digging It 112

Chapter 3 Urban Foraging 116

Feral Edibles 116

Invasive Edibles 122

Fruit Foraging 124

Tools for the Fruit Harvester 125

How to Eat Acorns 126

Dumpster Diving 128

Revive Day-Old Bread 130

4 Livestock In The City 134

The Chicken is the New Pug 135

How to Set Up a Brooder 150

Ducks 154

Rabbits 156

Pigeons: A Modest Proposal 157

Quail 158

Bees 159

Chapter 5 Revolutionary Home Economics 166

Preserving the Harvest 166

How to Can 170

Pickling via Lacto-Fermentation 173

Daikon Radish Pickles 174

L'hamd Markad or Preserved Salted Lemons 175

Euell Gibbons' Crock 177

Dehydration: Why Save it for Hangovers? 179

Three Methods for Drying Food 180

Preserving With Vinegar 182

Preserving Fruit in Alcohol: Le Cherry Bounce 184

Preserving Root Vegetables 184

How to Culture Milk 186

Making Yogurt 187

Making Labaneh, or Yogurt Cheese 188

Fil, Piima and Viila 189

Cheesemaking 190

Whole Milk Ricotta 190

Making Butter 191

How to Make Fruit Butter 193

Jams and Jellies 196

Making Stock 196

Five Ways to Preserve a Tomato 197

The Homemade Speakeasy: From Mead to Moonshine 202

Baking on the Homestead 204

Baking with Sourdough 204

Cleaning the Urban Homestead 214

Our Cleaning Cupboard 216

Less Toxic Ways to Deal with Unwelcome Critters 228

A Homestead of Your Own 229

Location Location Location 231

Chapter 6 Be Your Own Utility: Water and Power for the Homestead 238

Harvesting Water 238

Conserving Water 240

Six Ways to Harvest Rainwater 243

Become a Radical Depaver 244

Smart Gutters and Downspouts 245

Earthworks 246

Mulch Basins 247

Terracing 249

Rain Barrels and Cisterns 250

How Much Water Can I Harvest From My Roof? 252

Non-Invasive Greywater Methodologies 257

Highly Invasive Greywater Strategies 257

Greywater Plumbing 101 257

Showers to Flowers 260

Recycling Your Suds 261

Arranging a Twosome or Threesome-Using Diverters 264

Making a Greywater Wetland 266

The Composting Toilet: How to Poop in a Bucket 267

Power to the People 270

Energy Principles 270

Heating 272

Insulation 272

Gathering Solar Heat 273

The High Mass Rocket Heater 275

Cooling 275

How to Make a Living Awning or Shade 276

We're Fans of Fans 278

Water Heater 279

Alternatives to the Gas-Heated Shower 281

Solar Water Heaters for General Household Hot Water 282

Lighting 284

Stoves and Small Appliances 285

Solar Cookers 285

Build a Rocket Stove 288

Tomato Can Stove 290

Heat on the Cheap: Buddy Burners 292

Electronics 294

Washer & Dryer 295

Refrigerator 296

Dishwashers 296

Generating Your Own Power 297

Electricity From Solar Power-The Components 297

Solar Systems: Small, Medium and Large 299

Wind Power 302

Chapter 7 Transportation 306

Transportation Principles 306

The Transportation Triangle: Walking, Biking, Mass Transit 307

Walking 307

Cycling 308

How to Ride in Traffic 309

Finding a Bike 311

Route Choice 313

Cargo Bikes 313

Make Your Own Bike Light 316

Conclusion: The Future 320

Resources 324

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  • Posted September 22, 2011

    eBook Formatting is horrible!!

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  • Posted December 4, 2008

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    Fantastic Manual

    A GREAT manual! Easy to read, understand, and implement. Lists real projects that anyone could accomplish on any budget. Highly recommended to everyone!

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  • Posted April 21, 2010

    Delivers what it promises!

    This is an excellent and intelligent discussion of a wide range of issues related to urban homesteading and pursuing a self-sufficient lifestyle in general. Be prepared for the politics that go along with it, but I found the presentations enlightening and thought-provoking even in the few cases I may not have fully agreed with them. Excellent resource/ bibliography!

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  • Posted October 13, 2011

    Gloriously easy to use and understand

    Coyne and Knutzen did a wonderful job with this book. It assumes you know nothing and are interested to learn. It gives explanation for every project. Finally, it gives simple steps to accomplish each idea.

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  • Posted June 24, 2010

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    Taking Back Our Self-Reliance!

    This is a wonderful book in SO many ways. Anyone who is sick and tired of corporations running the world and everything, EVERYTHING being about the all mighty dollar will LOVE this book. Let's take back our lives from all the agencies and corporations who pollute our world, treat us like numbers, not people, poison our kids, and have created a culture that values THINGS and money above all else. For me, this book represents all the ideas and tools I need to put parts of my life back into my own hands. I am 43 and was raised on canned and frozen convenience food so many of these ideas are just mind-blowingly simple and amazing to me! I've strugged with my weight my whole life and it's no wonder because I've mostly consumed dead food. What a disgusting thought.
    I could go on and on but I won't. If you want to grow your own food and make your own stuff, this book is a good place to start for the ideas and instructions on how to do so. It will surely inspire you to keep doing more and going further. It has me.

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  • Posted May 31, 2010

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    THE URBAN HOMESTEAD... MODERN DAY OLIVER WENDELL DOUGLAS

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

    THE RESOURCES SECTION is the best set of web links and my favorite feature

    Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen give us a FANTASTIC simple manual for self reliance in an urban home. A simple set of projects. Great ideas. Great graphics.

    I am a Green Acres Oliver Wendell Douglas kind of guy from planters on the deck to the real veggie gardens with green projects like shading and grey water. I found even more ideas o try out.

    Growing you own vegetables and herbs... local source... freshest organic food... great exercise... step in to it

    Non toxic cleaning of your house... saves money... better for your health

    Composting your food... grass clippings... coffee grounds... egg shells... This is all easy... safe... great for the environment and the best fertilizer available

    projects on canning and preserving your food with lots of recipes.

    Let me know what you think.

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