The urban homestead : your guide to self-sufficient living in the heart of the city
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- ISBN: 9781934170014 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 1934170011 (pbk.)
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307 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Process Media, 2008.
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Unleashing the homesteader within -- 1. Start your own farm. Strategies for growing food in the urban setting -- How to make seedballs -- Permaculture -- The practicalities of growing food -- 2. Essential projects. Five essential projects: start a compost pile; vermiculture or composting with worms; mulch your yard; build a raised bed; how to build a self-watering container -- A treasure chest of gardening projects and advice: how to start seeds; how to transplant; fertilizer tea; grow some lettuce; tips & tricks for gardening in containers; the dirt on potting soil; installing drip irrigation; how to make a bean teepee; how to design a polycultural vegetable bed; how to make tater tires; controlling insect pests; rotating crops; animal pests; why you might test your soil; not digging it -- 3. Urban foraging. Feral edibles -- Invasive edibles -- Fruit foraging -- Tools for the fruit harvester -- How to eat acorns -- Dumpster diving -- Revive day-old bread -- 4. Livestock in the city. The chicken is the new pug -- How to set up a brooder -- Ducks -- Rabbits -- Pigeons : a modest proposal -- Quail -- Bees -- 5. Revolutionary home economics. Preserving the harvest -- How to can -- Pickling via lacto-fermentation -- Daikon radish pickles -- Dehydration : why save it for hangovers? -- Three Methods for drying food -- Preserving with vinegar -- Preserving fruit in alcohol : le cherry bounce -- Preserving root vegetables -- How to culture milk -- Making yogurt -- Making labaneh, or yogurt cheese -- Fil, piima and viila -- Cheesemaking -- Whole milk ricotta -- Making butter -- How to make fruit butter -- Jams and jellies -- Making stock -- The homemade speakeasy : from mead to moonshine -- Baking on the homestead -- Baking with sourdough -- Cleaning the urban homestead -- Our cleaning cupboard -- Less toxic ways to deal with unwelcome critters -- A homestead of your own -- Location location location -- 6. Be your own utility : water and power for the homestead. Harvesting water -- Conserving water -- Six ways to harvest rainwater -- How much water can I harvest from my roof? -- Non-invasive greywater methodologies -- Highly invasive greywater strategies -- Greywater plumbing 101 -- Showers to flowers -- Recycling your suds -- Arranging a twosome or threesome-using diverters -- Making a greywater wetland -- The composting toilet : how to poop in a bucket -- Power to the people -- Energy principles: heating; cooling; we're fans of fans; water heater; lighting; stoves and small appliances; electronics; washer & dryer; refrigerator; dishwashers; generating your own power; electricity from solar power-the components; solar systems : small, medium and large; wind power -- 7. Transportation. Transportation principles -- The transportation triangle : walking, biking, mass transit -- Route choice -- Cargo bikes -- Conclusion: the future. |
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