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Top 3 guides on Urban Homesteading

12/8/2014

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By Survival Ready Blog Team

Homesteading is basically the subsistence agriculture, home preservation of foodstuffs, and it may also include the production of textiles, clothing, and craftwork for household use or sale. We've spent several days worth of hours researching and looking for the best sources and guides in homesteading and these are our top 3 picks.

#3 The Urban Homestead

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The Urban Homestead is written in a casual, easy to read style but full of information. There are some subjects that you might want to research further, as this book is only a general guide, but for the most part they give a great overview of techniques necessary to grow your own food within the city. 


They even tell you how to raise chickens and other animals! There are several easy projects with detailed instructions, like making a self-watering container out of found buckets. I especially liked the idea of making a potato garden out of cast-off tires. Even if you only do one or two things suggested in the book, you'll be on your way to being more in control of your own food supply.


#2 Mini Farming: Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre

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This book is packed full of information for the beginning vegetable, fruit and nut grower. Even the instructions on creating a raised bed garden are very detailed. Most books and articles on the subject simply say a raised bed "is a good thing" without telling how to make one! Still digesting the very detailed chapter on soil nutrients, soil amendments and how to add to these in the best way. The detailed photos such as broccoli with a hollow stem indicating a deficiency, added to impetus to get this right.

I don't think you need even 1/4 acre to benefit from all the gardening tips here. Starting out small, trying a few vegetables at a time and learning what will work in your yard is also a way to go. Whether you do that or jump in both feet first, this book will definitely improve both the quantity and quality of the harvest. You will know the kind of time commitment required and how far to take it from there.


#1 The Backyard Homestead

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This book packs hundreds of ideas into its pages, allowing readers to pick and choose what works for them, no matter how much space and time they have available.

Want to milk a goat or grow wheat? Keep bees or smoke meat? Make beer or bake bread? It's all here, along with plenty of other ideas that range from very simple to much more complex.

If you're in the suburbs or have limited space or lack the stomach for slaughter, you might run into problems raising the pigs, chickens, rabbits or other creatures. Try the vegetable patch, or planting fruit trees or designing the landscape to protect your home against the elements. Or perhaps you live in tighter quarters. Then a vertical garden or making flavored vinegars would work. There really is something for everybody here who wants to have a hand in growing or raising some of the food that they eat.

This easy-to-follow book outlines ways to turn a quarter acre of space into a mini-farm, producing 1,400 eggs, 50 pounds of wheat, 60 pounds of fruit, 2,000 pounds of vegetables, 280 pounds of pork and 75 pounds of nuts. You won't feel pressured by this author to turn into Farmer Jones. Start with something easy and move on from there.


BONUS RESOURCE: 

The Ultimate Preparedness Library 

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The Ultimate Preparedness Library is organized into 10 Categories (some books fall into multiple categories) including:

  • Food Preparedness
  • Survival Strategies
  • Defense: Self, Home, Property
  • Medical Emergencies and Prevention
  • Homesteading
  • Water
  • Sanitation
  • Home Building and Shelters
  • Woodwork, Metal Work, And Other Handy Skills
  • Military Field Manuals
The titles vary tremendously from info notes of 1 page to others that are hundreds of pages in length.  You can pull up the book you want to reference as you need it or (and I recommend) download each of the titles to your computer…don’t forget to copy to one or more USB Flash drives.  I did have to download each of the titles individually which took about a half hour and a lot of bandwidth but I ended up doubling the size of my preparedness library (even with the duplicates I identified) in one fell swoop!  My one recommendation to the head ‘Ultimate’ librarian is to develop a one-click tool for downloading the entire library.

The Ultimate Preparedness Library bills itself as “A Comprehensive Collection of Resources for Emergency Preparedness, Homesteading, & Living a Self Reliant Lifestyle” and I found that statement to be pretty accurate.  Oh, word of warning… the purchase page is a little overwhelming (lot of hype), but you’ll be pleased with your $37 purchase…and if you aren’t…they’ll give you your money back.  This product is perfect to jump-start or enhance your own digital preparedness library.

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