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Binding: PaperbackDewey 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 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:
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. Average Rating:
 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 Rating:  - Great ideas, little detail, really poor editingI 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 Rating: - Worth reading because it is differentI'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 Rating: - Fun, easy to read guideI bought this book after reading about it on [...] and really enjoyed it. It is written in a casual, easy to read style but full of information. There are some subjects that you might want to research further, as this book is only a general guide, but for the most part they give a great overview of techniques necessary to grow your own food within the city. They even tell you how to raise chickens and other animals! There are several easy projects with detailed instructions, like making a self-watering ... Read More Rating:  - The Urban HomesteadMy wife and I were delighted to get our hands on The Urban Homestead. We have been following the Urban Homestead journey via the authors' blog and we have enjoyed the projects, the experiments, the successes and the failures. Most of all, we have enjoyed a shift in our consciousness as we began to evaluate our relationship to our home, our community and our environment. And so, with book in hand, we can now leave the computer, go for a walk, sit and read and contemplate the future and the route ... Read More |
