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Unleashing The Homesteader Within | |
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Start Your Own Farm | |
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Strategies for Growing Food in the Urban Setting | |
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How to Make Seedballs | |
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Permaculture | |
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The Practicalities of Growing Food | |
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Essential Projects | |
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Five Essential Projects | |
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Start a Compost Pile | |
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Vermiculture or Composting with Worms | |
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Mulch Your Yard | |
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Build a Raised Bed | |
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How to Build a Self-Watering Container | |
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A Treasure Chest of Gardening Projects and Advice | |
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How to Start Seeds | |
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How to Transplant | |
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Fertilizer Tea | |
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Trash Talkin' Tire Project #1: Tire Hose Caddy | |
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Trash Talkin' Tire Project #2: Stacking Composter | |
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Grow Some Lettuce | |
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Tips & Tricks for Gardening in Containers | |
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The Dirt on Potting Soll | |
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Installing Drip Irrigation | |
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How to Make a Bean Teepee | |
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How to Design a Polycultural Vegetable Bed | |
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How to Make Tater Tires | |
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Controlling Insect Pests | |
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Rotating Crops | |
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Animal Pests | |
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Why You Might Test Your Soil | |
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Not Digging It | |
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Urban Foraging | |
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Feral Edibles | |
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Invasive Edibles | |
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Fruit Foraging | |
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Tools for the Fruit Harvester | |
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How to Eat Acorns | |
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Dumpster Diving | |
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Revive Day-Old Bread | |
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Livestock In The City | |
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The Chicken is the New Pug | |
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How to Set Up a Brooder | |
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Ducks | |
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Rabbits | |
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Pigeons: A Modest Proposal | |
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Quail | |
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Bees | |
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Revolutionary Home Economics | |
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Preserving the Harvest | |
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How to Can | |
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Pickling via Lacto-Fermentation | |
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Daikon Radish Pickles | |
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L'hamd Markad or Preserved Salted Lemons | |
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Euell Gibbons' Crock | |
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Dehydration: Why Save it for Hangovers? | |
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Three Methods for Drying Food | |
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Preserving With Vinegar | |
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Preserving Fruit in Alcohol: Le Cherry Bounce | |
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Preserving Root Vegetables | |
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How to Culture Milk | |
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Making Yogurt | |
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Making Labaneh, or Yogurt Cheese | |
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Fil, Piima and Viila | |
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Cheesemaking | |
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Whole Milk Ricotta | |
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Making Butter | |
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How to Make Fruit Butter | |
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Jams and Jellies | |
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Making Stock | |
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Five Ways to Preserve a Tomato | |
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The Homemade Speakeasy: From Mead to Moonshine | |
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Baking on the Homestead | |
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Baking with Sourdough | |
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Cleaning the Urban Homestead | |
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Our Cleaning Cupboard | |
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Less Toxic Ways to Deal with Unwelcome Critters | |
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A Homestead of Your Own | |
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Location Location Location | |
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Be Your Own Utility: Water and Power for the Homestead | |
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Harvesting Water | |
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Conserving Water | |
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Six Ways to Harvest Rainwater | |
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Become a Radical Depaver | |
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Smart Gutters and Downspouts | |
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Earthworks | |
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Mulch Basins | |
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Terracing | |
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Rain Barrels and Cisterns | |
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How Much Water Can I Harvest From My Roof? | |
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Non-Invasive Greywater Methodologies | |
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Highly Invasive Greywater Strategies | |
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Greywater Plumbing 101 | |
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Showers to Flowers | |
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Recycling Your Suds | |
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Arranging a Twosome or Threesome-Using Diverters | |
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Making a Greywater Wetland | |
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The Composting Toilet: How to Poop in a Bucket | |
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Power to the People | |
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Energy Principles | |
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Heating | |
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Insulation | |
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Gathering Solar Heat | |
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The High Mass Rocket Heater | |
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Cooling | |
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How to Make a Living Awning or Shade | |
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We're Fans of Fans | |
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Water Heater | |
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Alternatives to the Gas-Heated Shower | |
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Solar Water Heaters for General Household Hot Water | |
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Lighting | |
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Stoves and Small Appliances | |
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Solar Cookers | |
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Build a Rocket Stove | |
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Tomato Can Stove | |
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Heat on the Cheap: Buddy Burners | |
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Electronics | |
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Washer & Dryer | |
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Refrigerator | |
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Dishwashers | |
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Generating Your Own Power | |
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Electricity From Solar Power-The Components | |
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Solar Systems: Small, Medium and Large | |
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Wind Power | |
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Transportation | |
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Transportation Principles | |
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The Transportation Triangle: Walking, Biking, Mass Transit | |
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Walking | |
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Cycling | |
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How to Ride in Traffic | |
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Finding a Bike | |
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Route Choice | |
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Cargo Bikes | |
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Make Your Own Bike Light | |
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Conclusion: The Future | |
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Resources | |