The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Expanded, Revised) | Kelly Coyne & Erik Knutzen

360 pages | Process | 6.1.10 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