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1. The Urban Homesteading Cookbook: Forage, Farm, Ferment and Feast for a Better World
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The Urban Homesteading Cookbook Forage Farm Ferment and Feast for a Better WorldDescription
In The Urban Homesteading Cookbook, Nelson explores the worlds of foraging wild urban edibles, eating invasive species, keeping micro-livestock, bees and crickets, growing perennial vegetables in pots, small-space aquaponics, preserving meats and produce, making cheese and slow-fermenting sourdough, beer, vinegar, kombucha, kefir and pickles. Nelson fervently believes that by taking more control of our own food we will become better empowered to understand our relationships with the environment, and embrace sustainable lifestyles and communities.
With 70 fabulous recipes, including sesame panko-crusted invasive bullfrog legs, seaweed kimchi, rabbit pate with wild chanterelles, roasted Japanese knotweed panna cotta and dark and stormy chocolate cupcakes with cricket flour this exciting new book is sure to inspire readers to embark on their own urban homesteading adventures.
Generously illustrated with gorgeous colour photography and complete with useful how-to chapters, The Urban Homesteading Cookbook is an invaluable guide for all those seeking ethical and sustainable urban food sources and strategies.
2. Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century, Revised & Updated
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Take the proper steps to live more sustainably. Learn how to reduce waste, use wind and solar energy to power your home, and grow your own food. Written by BBC personalities Dick and James Strawbridge, this manual for the modern age is complete guide to a simpler, greener, and cleaner lifestyle.
With step-by-step guidance and techniques, Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century combines traditional skills and crafts with modern technological advances to help you live a more eco-friendly lifestyle.
Perfect for both urban and rural readers, Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century has detailed illustrations and authoritative advice for tried-and-tested projects, including foraging for wild plants, finding natural remedies, composting, using green cleaners, and conserving energy at home. Learn how to can vegetables, garden in urban spaces, and the basics of animal husbandry.
Self Sufficiency for the 21st Century is the perfect book to show you just how easy and rewarding green living can be with simple changes that have a major impact.
3. Little House in the Suburbs: Backyard farming and home skills for self-sufficient living
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Self-Sufficiency in the Suburbs!
Gardens, goats and chickens in the suburbs? Absolutely!
The easy-to-follow advice in this book will show you everything you need to know to enjoy an abundant, independent life on food and products grown in your own back yard. You may feel like you have superpowers the first time you prepare a meal using only ingredients you grew in your garden. And is there anything you can't do after you lather up with a bar of soap that you made in your own home? This book is full of recipes and tips that will help you discover the joy of self-sufficiency. Do't worry; suburban gardening doesn't mean you have to rip up your yard, or risk being ostracized by neighbors or your municipality or homeowners association.
Inside you'll find:
- Gardening instructions for any-size yard and any skill level
- A complete overview of keeping chickens, mini-goats and bees in the suburbs
- More than 40 food recipes featuring ingredients from your garden or animals
- Canning techniques
- Recipes for natural deodorant, toothpaste, lip balm and other beauty products
- Step-by-step soapmaking instructions and soap recipes
- Natural cleaning recipes for kitchens, bathrooms, surfaces and laundry
- Gift basket ideas
- Community-building ideas including babysitting co-ops, meal swaps, and barter systems
- Advice on how to keep the peace with family, neighbors, and officials if your self-sufficient plans meet resistance
4. The Backyard Homestead: Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre!
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5. The Weekend Homesteader: A Twelve-Month Guide to Self-Sufficiency
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The Weekend Homesteader A Twelve Month Guide to Self SufficiencyDescription
The Weekend Homesteader is organized by monthso whether its January or June youll find exciting, short projects that you can use to dip your toes into the vast ocean of homesteading without getting overwhelmed. If you need to fit homesteading into a few hours each weekend and would like to have fun while doing it, these projects will be right up your alley, whether you live on a forty-acre farm, a postage-stamp lawn in suburbia, or a high rise.
You'll learn about backyard chicken care, how to choose the best mushroom and berry species, and why and how to plant a no-till garden that heals the soil while providing nutritious food. Permaculture techniques will turn your homestead into a vibrant ecosystem and attract native pollinators while converting our society's waste into high-quality compost and mulch. Meanwhile, enjoy the fruits of your labor right away as you learn the basics of cooking and eating seasonally, then preserve homegrown produce for later by drying, canning, freezing, or simply filling your kitchen cabinets with storage vegetables. As you become more self-sufficient, you'll save seeds, prepare for power outages, and tear yourself away from a full-time job, while building a supportive and like-minded community. You won't be completely eliminating your reliance on the grocery store, but you will be plucking low-hanging (and delicious!) fruits out of your own garden by the time all forty-eight projects are complete.
6. Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World
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Making It Radical Home Ec for a Post Consumer WorldDescription
Spending money is the last thing anyone wants to do right now. We are in the midst of a massive
cultural shift away from consumerism and toward a vibrant and very active countermovement that has
been thriving on the outskirts for quite some timedo-it-yourselfers who make frugal, homemade living hip are challenging the notion that true wealth has anything to do with money. In Making It, Coyne and Knutzen, who are at the forefront of this movement, provide readers with all the tools they need for this radical shift in home economics.
The projects range from simple to ambitious and include activities done in the home, in the garden,
and out in the streets. With step-by-step instructions for a wide range of projectsfrom growing food in an apartment and building a ninety-nine-cent solar oven to creating safe, effective laundry soap for pennies a gallon and fishing in urban waterwaysMaking It will be the go-to source for post-consumer living activities that are fun, inexpensive, and eminently doable. Within hours of buying this book, readers will be able to start transitioning into a creative, sustainable mode of living that is not just a temporary fad but a cultural revolution.
7. Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre
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Start a mini farm on a quarter acre or less, provide 85 percent of the food for a family of four and earn an income.
Mini Farming describes a holistic approach to small-area farming that will show you how to produce 85 percent of an average familys food on just a quarter acreand earn $10,000 in cash annually while spending less than half the time that an ordinary job would require. Even if you have never been a farmer or a gardener, this book covers everything you need to know to get started: buying and saving seeds, starting seedlings, establishing raised beds, soil fertility practices, composting, dealing with pest and disease problems, crop rotation, farm planning, and much more. Because self-sufciency is the objective, subjects such as raising backyard chickens and home canning are also covered along with numerous methods for keeping costs down and production high. Materials, tools, and techniques are detailed with photographs, tables, diagrams, and illustrations.8. Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living by Kaplan, Rachel, Blume, K. Ruby (2011) Paperback
9. Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living
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10. Urban Homesteading: Sustainable and Self Sufficient Living with Urban Homesteading
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The ULTIMATE URBAN HOMESTEADING GUIDE! LEARN THE TOP STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE AND SELF SUFFICIENT LIVING WITH URBAN HOMESTEADING! Perfect for Gardening Beginners or Seasoned Veterans! By #1 Best Selling Author, Joy Louis!
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- What is Urban Homesteading?!
- Learn the Real Difference Between Urban and Rural Homesteading Permaculture
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- How to Start Your Own Garden
- Know these Variables for a Survival Garden!
- Learn to Make Your Own Compost!
- What to Know About Fertilizers
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Many of the myths that surround the prepper community are caused by the prepper television shows. While these are entertaining and do sometimes contain some good hints and tips, it is important to remember that these are just television programs with editing and careful selection. The producers purposely pick the people who would be deemed the most extreme or perhaps the nuttiest because they are the ones that make good television. The real preppers are the ones that are not doing stunts for TV. They are the ones with the right mindset and mental attitude and they are doing these things quietly for their families, not parading their choices for everyone to see. Homesteading and/or prepping takes a lot of hard work and dedication but it is very rewarding to know that you are not only becoming more and more self-reliant but that you can also have fun and be a little creative at times as well. This is not all about gloom and doom, after all. These projects are easy enough for most people to handle and will help expand your range of skills in the process. In this book, you will find a collection of my favorite DIY homesteading projects with step-by-step instructions. Enjoy!Select the "buy" button on the top of page to learn more about how you can protect your loved ones during crisis!
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In this book, you will be given some great tips and suggestions on how you can begin to live a life as an urban homesteader. More and more people in the world today are turning to becoming more self-sufficient in many areas of their lives. People are becoming more interested in finding ways to grow their own organic foods, cutting down on costs as well as foods that are filled with chemicals and other additives.
Many things that are added to our food supplies are often not very healthy, but instead can cause health issues to develop. You can certainly feel so much better and more confident that the foods you are growing yourself, will be healthy for you and your loved ones. Not only will you enjoy the health benefits of eating your own organic foods, but you will also save lots of money in the process too! Making this positive change in your lifestyle will be a choice that I can assure you that you are going to be so thankful that you made. Especially when you begin to experience the health and financial benefits that will develop from becoming an urban homesteader.
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