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Intrigue Of The Week: Urban Homesteading
Canning, composting, backyard vegetable cropping, and other 'down home' practices are becoming mainstream in places one would least expect it - big cities. This phenomenon is called Urban Homesteading.Websites:
Ditch the Grid
My Goals: 1 - Apply for a loan; 2 - Find some land; 3 - MOVE; 4 - Make the switch to off-grid living; 5 - Plant a garden; 6 - Get some chickens; and 7 - Make a life, not just a living. This is my journey toward fulfilling that dream
Countryside Magazine
Countryside & Small Stock Journal (better known as just “Countryside”) is more than a magazine: it’s a network where homesteaders share a wide variety of experiences and ideas about simple, sustainable, country living.
Books:
Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills, Third EditionAnyone who wants to learn basic living skills—the kind employed by our forefathers—need look no further than this eminently useful, full-color guide. Countless readers have turned to Back to Basics for inspiration and instruction, rediscovering the pleasures and challenges of a healthier, greener, and more self-sufficient lifestyle. Back to Basics will help you dye your own wool with plant pigments, graft trees, raise chickens, craft a hutch table with hand tools, and make treats such as blueberry peach jam and cheddar cheese. More than just practical advice, this is also a book for dreamers—you will find your imagination sparked, and there’s no reason why you can’t, for example, make a loom and weave a rag rug. This may be the most thorough book on voluntary simplicity available. | |
Ball Complete Book of Home PreservingNow the experts at Ball have written a book destined to become the “bible” of home preserving. These 400 recipes include everything from salsas and savory sauces to pickling, chutneys, relishes and of course, jams, jellies, and fruit spreads. Directions on safe canning methods plus lists of required equipment and utensils. Specific instructions for first-timers and handy tips for the experienced make the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving a valuable addition to any kitchen library. | |
Preserving Summer’s BountyA Quick and Easy Guide to Freezing, Canning, Preserving, and Drying What You Grow“Preserving Summer’s Bounty takes a giant step ahead in preserving advice. This up-to-the-minute guide pays tribute to your grandmother’s techniques for ‘putting up’ vegetables, but what I like best are the quick and easy modern methods using the microwave, the freezer and more. These fast answers should lure even the busiest among us into storing the precious harvest of the garden.”—Marian Morash, Author of The Victory Garden Cookbook | |
Root CellaringNatural Cold Storage of Fruits & VegetablesAnyone can learn to store fruits and vegetables safely and naturally with a cool, dark space (even a closet!) and the step-by-step advice in this book. Root cellaring, as many people remember but only a few people still practice, is a way of using the earth’s naturally cool, stable temperature to store perishable fruits and vegetables. It’s a no-cost, simple, low-technology, energy-saving way to keep the harvest fresh all year long. This book covers the subject with a thoroughness that makes it the only book you’ll ever need on root cellaring.
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Storey’s Basic Country Skills: A Practical Guide to Self-RelianceThis is the book for anyone who wants to become more self-reliant, from suburbanites with 1/4 of an acre to country homesteaders with several. The information is easily understood and readily applicable. More than 150 of Storey’s expert authors in gardening, building, animal raising, and homesteading share their specialized knowledge and experience in this ultimate guide to living a more independent, satisfying life. Readers will find step-by-step, illustrated instructions for every aspect of country living.
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The Encyclopedia of Country LivingFrom Publisher’s Weekly: The updated ninth edition of this compendium of food production information is the hefty result of over three decades of intelligence-gathering by Emery, whose initial encyclopedia project was designed to help newbies in the “back to the land” movement of the early 70s learn self-sufficiency. Tasks Emery covers run the gamut from the simple to the complex, and from the common to the strange, and include how to: bake bread, make seed milk, sew a cornhusk bed, dry flowers, prune kiwi vines, culture yogurt, plant beans, keep bees, build a fish pond, artificially inseminate a turkey and help a cow who’s eaten nails. Though it’s definitely not aimed at them, urbanites will find the recipes and resources lists useful, the trivia interesting, and Emery’s personal reflections compelling. Even readers with no plans to raise sheep, sell homemade cheese or plant millet will find this a fascinating cultural document. | |
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