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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 | |