The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City

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The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City

The Urban Homestead: Your Guide to Self-sufficient Living in the Heart of the City, by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen, is 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. I learned a great deal about composting, self-watering containers, mulching, raised bed gardens, vermiculture (worm composting), and raising chickens by reading this info-dense book.

Unlike many self-sufficiency books, this one isn’t preachy, unrealistic, or dogmatic. Instead, it’s honest and often humorous.