{"product_id":"the-urban-homestead-expanded-revised-edition-your-guide-to-self-sufficient-living-in-the-heart-of-the-city-process-self-reliance-series","title":"The Urban Homestead (Expanded \u0026 Revised Edition): Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Process Self-reliance Series)","description":"The expanded, updated version of the best-selling classic, with a dozen new projects.\n\"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\n\"...the contemporary bible on the subject.\"—The New York Times\nThis 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.\nWritten by city dwellers for city dwellers, this copiously illustrated, two-color instruction book proposes a paradigm shift that will improve our lives, our community, and our planet. By growing our own food and harnessing natural energy, we are planting seeds for the future of our cities.\nLearn how to: Grow food on a patio or balcony Preserve or ferment food and make yogurt and cheese Compost with worms Keep city chickens Divert your grey water to your garden Clean your house without toxins Guerilla garden in public spaces Create the modern homestead of your dreams\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1934170100\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1934170100.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Coyne, Kelly|Knutzen, Erik\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This copy has clearly been enjoyed—expect noticeable shelf wear and some minor creases to the cover. Binding is strong, and all pages are legible. May contain previous library markings or stamps.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41537872363578,"sku":"DBV.1934170100.A","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1934170100-0.jpg?v=1784347254","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/the-urban-homestead-expanded-revised-edition-your-guide-to-self-sufficient-living-in-the-heart-of-the-city-process-self-reliance-series","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}