The Urban Homesteading Book
The Urban Homesteading Book: Guerrilla Gardening, Undercover Chickens & Other Money-Saving Skills Your Landlord Doesn't Need to Know About by Jack Redding
English | April 28, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0F6RYBCDD | 327 pages | EPUB | 0.30 Mb
English | April 28, 2025 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0F6RYBCDD | 327 pages | EPUB | 0.30 Mb
Forget Montana. Forget bunkers. Forget moving to a commune and learning how to churn butter at dawn.
Welcome to the practical (and slightly mischievous) art of turning your apartment, condo, or rental into a self-sufficient fortress of edible defiance—without your landlord ever catching on.
Inside The Urban Homesteading Book you'll discover:
- How to transform your windowsill into a miniature food factory (and maybe finally keep a basil plant alive for longer than a week!)
- Secret techniques for raising chickens, composting, and producing homemade goods—all under the radar.
- Tips for slashing your grocery bill while flipping inflation the bird (pun absolutely intended).
- Real-life examples of people who survived economic chaos without panic-buying gold bars or panic-moving to the woods.
- Proof you don't need acres or a tractor—you just need a good attitude, a few containers, and the willingness to occasionally talk to your plants like they're coworkers at a company happy hour.
- A guide to making your own clothing out of old grocery bags (you're welcome).
- A boring doomsday prepper manifesto. No gold hoarding. No conspiracy theories. Just real skills you can use right now.
- A guilt-trip about how you're not doing enough. You are. You're here. You're trying. Let's grow stuff.
- "I'd start a garden if I wasn't a certified Plant Serial Killer."
- "I'd love to make my own stuff but last time I tried, I accidentally created an unstable chemical reaction."
- "I'd be more self-sufficient if I could just figure out where to put the goats."
Live large. Grow small. Hide the chickens.