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Review of The Urban Homestead

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By Matt Mayer in Book Reviews | January 5, 2009

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This book is a one stop shop about how to be a homesteader when you live in the city.  The authors of this book live in LA, but they are able to grow a good portion of their food, raise chickens, bike as their transportation and find the space to make a lot of natural foods.  It’s a great read and is a must have addition to your reference library.

In the book they have a chapters devoted to gardening, foraging for food in the city, raising livestock in the city, home economics (which covers canning, root cellering, drying, pickling, making cheese, yogurt, etc among other stuff), being your own utility which talks about saving rainwater, generating energy, saving energy and other topics like that.  The final chapter is about transportation.

This is a fantastic book and is soooo useful and full of information.  You must have it.

P.S. I love the take off American Gothic on the cover.

2 Comments

  1. Kory said,

    January 5, 2009 at 12:18 pm

    I thought it was good too, some parts are better described in other books, but there are plenty of original ideas and info, I agree, its great.

    I’ve been trying to convince my wife to do an American Gothic satire photo for years now.

  2. Paul said,

    January 6, 2009 at 4:45 pm

    I wish that there where books on this topic describing more northern climates. The issues in LA are far less than the issues in Toronto. I live in a zone 5a.

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