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The City Homesteader: Self-Sufficiency on Any Square Footage
by
Scott Meyer
The City Homesteader is the handbook for the world of self-sufficient living. It's about living tangibly in a virtual world. It's about being resourceful, saving money, reducing consumption, and increasing self-reliance. Join the many who are raising backyard chickens in the city and tilling their side yards: tapping into natural energy, managing homes more efficiently, an...more
Paperback, 272 pages
Published
April 26th 2011
by Running Press
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A general reference guide. He makes a point not to go into too much detail and trusts you will continue researching that of which is of most interest to you. He even warns you that this is his intent. Fair enough. But I could no longer take him seriously once I reached the foraging chapter and forced to endure poorly executed, even childlike sketches of various edible wild plants as a means to thwart a miscalculation into less innocuous species. If you're not going to do it right, no caveat empt...more
I think I'm addicted to these kinds of books. I really love all the great ideas for indoor small space self sufficiency. This one gave a lot of good ideas on how to dry food you can't eat, how to can, but also good ideas for container gardens. A little more ambitious than most books because it talks a lot about fruit trees and beekeeping/chickens in the city. That's not happening, but I did enjoy the book as a general guide to gardens/canning/drying, etc.
Unfortunately I do not have a backyard or a large kitchen, and I am not about to begin homesteading. Still, this book is a fascinating resource! The author gives you an overview on vegetable gardening, canning, preserving, raising backyard chickens, composting, and so on. I thought this was a great resource and it really ties into some of the things I learned in my urban agriculture class.
Thumbs up!
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This is a very basic guide to city homesteading. I appreciated the inclusion of sections about foraging and raising rabbits, I haven't seen these before in urban homestead books. However, the information was very basic with no references to other books or guides. Additionally there were no color photographs, which is a big mistake in my opinion.
Overall, this is a decent read for beginners but there's not much there for practicing homesteaders.
Overall, this is a decent read for beginners but there's not much there for practicing homesteaders.
Good information but for my apartment very little was of us. However, that is not the author's fault and if I was in a better apartment I could see this being much more useful.
I really liked this book. Great suggestions on how to maximize your space and how to preserve foods with little storage areas. It was a very basic, very easy read for someone trying to live more "off the land" without a whole lot of land to do so.
Another great introduction to homesteading. Includes instructions for simple projects around the home to implement a homesteading lifestyle.
This is a good starter about raising chickens, bees, starting a garden, etc. There are also some good references for more reading and some nice lists in here.
This book would be a great first primer for someone who wanted to start becoming more self-sufficient. It's full of great, simple ideas for ways to make and save for the family, but it is by no means as valuabe as a subscription to Mother Earth magazine. I would recommend it to gardening newbies, but not to anyone who has already built their beds and starting drying and canning the year's produce.
Great intro to homesteading. Certainly outlines the basics and shows me where I need to do more research. Also made me really want to buy some goats and chickens!!
Great starting place for inspiration, though the information tends to be broad, leaving the reader to seek further info on specifics. A great tool for an overlook at homesteading and easy read, I enjoyed it!
Very good book for those wanting to become a little more self-sufficient.
Just skimmed through it mostly - it was okay, but not as helpful as I had hoped.
This book is a handy beginner's guide to doing domestic things yourself. My favorite is making your own cheese.
Tons of great ideas. Wish I had this last spring.
Learned a lot from this one, and actually took notes!
A very good book, with great ideas.
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Scott Meyer is a former editor-in-chief of Organic Gardening magazine, and a frequent writer of all varieties of do-it-yourself. He is the author of The City Homesteader and he lives in the Philadelphia suburbs.
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