Overview
Everything you ever wanted to know about homesteading, all with a cool, modern style. From windowsills to backyards, cities hold more potential for growth than just urban sprawl. We can grow vegetables, raise small livestock, and fill our cupboards with canned decadence. Regardless of space or green thumb know-how, Renee Wilkinson offers something for everyone. Musing about what it takes to raise clucking chickens? Wilkinson walks you through every step. Wondering what will grow best on your balcony or fire escape? She gives you garden designs and choices. What to make with your bounty of herbs and veggies? A rustic yet elegant goat cheese and zucchini panini might just do it. While Wilkinson may use her grandmother's old canning tricks or her aunt's favorite recipes, this young, thoughtful gardener still manages to make her spread her own, and delivers the best information on growing, raising, harvesting, and making from your own plot. Renee Wilkinson is the creator of HipChickDigs.com, a popular website dedicated to urban homesteading, edible landscape design, and sustainable living. Garden spade in hand, Wilkinson is completing a graduate degree in landscape architecture and continues to inspire urbanites everywhere to get their hands dirty in their own city homesteads. She lives on a tenth of an acre city lot in Portland, OR, with her husband and three chickens.
Full Product Details
Author: Renee Wilkinson
Publisher: Fulcrum Inc.,US
Imprint: Fulcrum Inc.,US
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 24.20cm
Weight: 0.709kg
ISBN: 9781555917487
ISBN 10: 1555917488
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 May 2011
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Filled with beautiful photos and illustrations, Wilkinson tells pretty much everything anyone needs to know to get started in sustainable living, especially in urban and suburban areas. It's a compact resource that should be kept handy, with a valuable index for looking things up. --Jim Ewing, Clarionledger.com <br><br> This is a comprehensive starter-kit for creating a homesteading lifestyle in a simple and inspiring way... From growing your own food in the smallest urban space, to a larger urban backyard plan, Modern Homestead will give you the information, instruction, and inspiration you need to get going- or to expand. Enjoy! --Spirituality and Health.com<br>
Author Information
Renee Wilkinson is the creator of HipChickDigs.com, a popular website dedicated to urban homesteading, edible landscape design, and sustainable living. With a degree in journalism from the University of Oregon and garden spade in hand, she has been inspiring urbanites everywhere to get their hands dirty in their own city homesteads. Currently Renee is completing a graduate degree in landscape architecture to further revolutionize urban green spaces. She lives blissfully on a tenth of an acre city lot in Portland, Oregon, with her husband and three urban chickens Pearl, Maude, and Florence.
