The New American Homestead: Sustainable, Self-Sufficient Living in the Country or in the City Paperback - 2012 - 1st Edition
by Tullock, John H
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- Title The New American Homestead: Sustainable, Self-Sufficient Living in the Country or in the City
- Author Tullock, John H
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Howell Books
- Date 2012
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # G1118024176I5N01
- ISBN 9781118024171 / 1118024176
- Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
- Dimensions 9.18 x 6.06 x 0.79 in (23.32 x 15.39 x 2.01 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Sustainable living, Environmental protection - Citizen
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011945555
- Dewey Decimal Code 635.048
From the rear cover
There's a lot we can learn from previous generations. "The New American Homestead" teaches you simple survival skills that, in an earlier time, were known and practiced by almost everyone. You can join the new breed of American homesteaders with a different concept of "living well" in a city, town, or suburb, a concept based not on consumption but on self-sufficiency, not on reckless extravagance but on thrift, and not on the rat race so much as on, perhaps, the catnap.
This book teaches you how to:
Make wise choices in the design, planting, and maintenance of your residential space, regardless of its size or location
Produce your own food
Integrate vegetables, herbs, and fruits with locally native species and surrogates that contribute to the restoration of the local ecosystem
Acquire a deeper understanding of the continuously evolving "livingscape" that you create for yourself, and of its relationship to the ecosystem that nourishes and sustains all life
Use your space in the sun to manage health problems, earn supplemental income, and calm frazzled nerves