The urban homestead: your guide to self-sufficient living in the heart of the city

Unleashing The Homesteader Within

Chapter 1. Start Your Own Farm

Strategies for Growing Food in the Urban Setting

How to Make Seedballs

Permaculture

The Practicalities of Growing Food

Chapter 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 Soll

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

Chapter 3. Urban Foraging

Feral Edibles

Invasive Edibles

Fruit Foraging

Tools for the Fruit Harvester

How to Eat Acorns

Dumpster Diving

Revive Day-Old Bread

Chapter 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

Chapter 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

Chapter 6. Be Your Own Utility: Water And Power For The Homestead

Harvesting Water

Conserving Water

Six Ways to Harvest Rainwater

Become a Readical Depaver

Smart Gutters and Downspouts

Earthworks

Mulch Basins

Terracing

Rain Barrels And Cisterns

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

Insulation

Gathering Solar Heat

The High Mass Rocket Heater

Cooling

How to Make a Living Awning or Shade

We're Fans of Fans

Water Heater

Alternatives to the Gas-Heated Shower

Solar Water Heaters for General Household Hot Water

Lighting

Stoves And Small Appliances

Solar Cookers

Build a Rocket Stove

Electronics

Washer & Dryer

Refrigerator

Dishwashers

Generating Your Own Power

Electricity From Solar Power-The Components

Solar Systems: Small, Medium And Large

Wind Power

Chapter 7. Transportation

Transportation Principles

The Transportation Triangle: Walking, Biking, Mass Transit

Walking

Cycling

How To Ride In Traffic

Finding A Bike

Route Choice

Cargo Bikes

Conclusion: The Future

Resources

Unleashing the homesteader within

Start your own farm

Essential projects. Five essential projects ; A treasure chest of gardening projects and advice

Urban foraging

Livestock in the city

Revolutionary home economics

Be your own utility: water and power for the homestead

Transportation

Conclusion: The future.