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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 643
EAN: 9781934170014
ISBN: 1934170011
Label: Process
Manufacturer: Process
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 330
Publication Date: June 01, 2008
Publisher: Process
Studio: Process

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:


The Urban Homestead is the essential handbook for a fast-growing new movement: urbanites are becoming gardeners and farmers. Rejecting both end-times hand wringing and dewy-eyed faith that technology will save us from ourselves, urban homesteaders choose instead to act. By growing their own food and harnessing natural energy, they are planting seeds for the future of our cities.



If you would like to harvest your own vegetables, raise city chickens, or convert to solar energy, this practical, hands-on book is full of step-by-step projects that will get you started homesteading immediately, whether you live in an apartment or a house. It is also a guidebook to the larger movement and will point you to the best books and Internet resources on self-sufficiency topics.



Projects include:

• How to grow food on a patio or balcony
• How to clean your house without toxins
• How to preserve food
• How to cook with solar energy
• How to divert your grey water to your garden
• How to choose the best homestead for you

Written by city dwellers for city dwellers, this illustrated, smartly designed, two-color instruction book proposes a paradigm shift that will improve our lives, our community, and our planet. Authors Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen happily farm in Los Angeles and run the urban homestead blog www.homegrownrevolution.org.






Rating: - Gifts Of The Earth's Bounty, Even In The City
This book is as much about people consciously creating the future as it is about how to make, grow, find, or trade for everything you need.

I always thought of myself as a big supporter of sustainable living. I realized, after reading this book, that I also have been thinking, wrongly, that I had no choice but to cheer it on from the sidelines. I thought there was very little I and people like me could do to reduce waste, pollution, destruction of resources, vulnerable dependence on ... Read More

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Rating: - Well written
A true book of facts and examples... Not a re-due of over done Green Trendy Crap the society is milking for the last dollar we have....

Well spent $$

Thanks

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Rating: - Not bad, but lots of grammatical/spelling errors.
This book contains plenty of useful information and unique approaches to home gardening that I have never heard of before. While it isn't strong on the instructional side of things, it is fairly packed with ideas that one can research more fully on their own time. My biggest beef with this book is the sheer number of spelling and grammatical errors. I find it hard to read a book that has a significant number of such errors. It is ridiculous in some cases, like they didn't even bother running the ... Read More

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Rating: - Great ideas, little detail, really poor editing
I love the breadth of topics in this book. It gave me some great ideas. But it's only a starting point.

For the topics I really wanted to know more about, I felt the detail was really lacking. For other topics that are really too ambitious for me to tackle (like recycling shower water to use as "graywater"), there was WAY too much detail. And when the detail lacked, there really weren't suggestions for further reading or research.

But most troubling to me was the many, ... Read More

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Rating: - Worth reading because it is different
I've read various books on self-sufficiency in the past ten years, but this one is different. First, it doesn't tell you how to recreate a 19th-century homestead, which is beginning to seem to me like another version of faux chateaux, but which also is not going to work very well if it is not surrounded by other 19th-century homesteads. And it doesn't describe what you can do "some day" when you get your five acres and independence. Instead, it focuses on what you can do right now in your own city to ... Read More

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