Download Process Self-Reliance: The Urban Homestead : Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City by Kelly Coyne MOBI, DJV
9781934170014 1934170011 An essential handbook for the urban homesteading movement showing readers how to grow their own food, raise city chickens, gain energy independence and more. Illustrations, tips, anecdotes, and projects are designed to help urban households become more self-sufficient and sustainable., 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., This fun, hands-on guide shows anyone who lives in the city 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 how to harness natural energy, here are dozens of step-by-step projects to get you started homesteading immediately. projects include: How to grow food anywhere, How to compost with worms, How to preserve and ferment food, How to divert greywater to your garden, How to clean your house without toxins. Written by city-dwelling farmers, this illustrated, two-color handbook proposes a paradigm shift that will improve our lives, our community and our planet. Book jacket.
9781934170014 1934170011 An essential handbook for the urban homesteading movement showing readers how to grow their own food, raise city chickens, gain energy independence and more. Illustrations, tips, anecdotes, and projects are designed to help urban households become more self-sufficient and sustainable., 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., This fun, hands-on guide shows anyone who lives in the city 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 how to harness natural energy, here are dozens of step-by-step projects to get you started homesteading immediately. projects include: How to grow food anywhere, How to compost with worms, How to preserve and ferment food, How to divert greywater to your garden, How to clean your house without toxins. Written by city-dwelling farmers, this illustrated, two-color handbook proposes a paradigm shift that will improve our lives, our community and our planet. Book jacket.