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Extreme Simplicity: A Guide to Urban Homesteading

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Prepare for everything from power failures and terrorist attacks to droughts and earthquakes with this perfect guide to self-sufficient city dwelling. Learn how to use natural resources with intelligent, efficient methods that include growing and preserving food; creating backup water supplies; conserving energy; recycling; keeping chickens, bees, and other animals; and much more.

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Perfect guide to self-sufficient city dwelling shows how to use available natural resources in an intelligent, efficient way. Covers growing and preserving food, energy conservation, recycling, keeping chickens and bees, and more.

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The growing popularity of urban homesteading confirms the timeliness of this perfect guide to self-sufficient city dwelling. The authors show how to use available natural resources in an intelligent, efficient way. Topics include growing and preserving food; backup water supplies; energy conservation; recycling; keeping chickens, bees, and other animals, and much more.
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Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Our House
2. The Yard
3. Homegrown Foods
4. Faunal Friends: Animals in the City
5. Integral Gardening
6. Water
7. Homestead Energy: Appliances, Heat, and Electricity
8. Trash and Recycling
9. Economics and Self-Reliance
Epilogue
Resources
Bibliography
Index
 

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ISBN:
9780486491141
Subtitle:
A Guide to Urban Homesteading
Author:
Nyerges, Christopher
Author:
Nyerges, Dolores Lynn
Publisher:
Dover Publications
Subject:
General Nature
Subject:
homesteading
Subject:
sustainable
Subject:
Urban gardening
Subject:
Architecture-Houses
Subject:
Natural Resources
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Publication Date:
20130919
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
9 x 6 in
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The growing popularity of urban homesteading confirms the timeliness of this perfect guide to self-sufficient city dwelling. The authors show how to use available natural resources in an intelligent, efficient way. Topics include growing and preserving food; backup water supplies; energy conservation; recycling; keeping chickens, bees, and other animals, and much more.
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