Sustainable Living

Urban Homesteading: Introduction to Organic Food, Gardening and Sustainable Living in Urban HomesUrban Pioneers and Hipsters lend me your ears! Because when it comes to converting your urban backyard into a beautiful garden this book has a lot to say on the matter. Taking you from urban blight to urban delight in just a few chapters, this book outlines how you can take even the smallest of urban space and turn it into a beautiful and productive Garden that your whole neighborhood can enjoy! Learn what to do and what not to do as we cover:* Urban Pioneers * Rebounding from Urban Blight * Zoning, Rules, and Regulations * Gardening, Fertilizer, and Compost * Housing, Feeding, and Raising Animals * Getting Involved in your Community * Marketing and Promoting your Homestead Tiny House Living: Your Mini Guide to Making Best of Your Tiny Home with Building Tips and Decorating IdeasFor anyone that has wished to get out there and grab life by the reigns. The enchanting world of "tiny homes" holds a very special allure. Saddling up to live in a space that is smaller than most studio apartments is a big leap for most of us. But if you are informed and know what you are doing you can go a long way with the latest in tiny home designs. Since the trend has advanced, so have the choices. In what was once a very obscure market decked out with a very small variety of tiny homes has turned into a veritable smorgasbord of tiny home consumption. Some things that we will cover in this book include:* Finding and Buying a Tiny House * The Basics of Tiny Home Construction * Furniture and other arrangements for Tiny House Living * A guide to setting up permanent residence for your Tiny Home SHTF Root Cellar: Essential Tips on Building Your Natural Refrigerator and Food StorageCould you keep enough food preserved to feed you in case of an emergency. Right now you probably only have enough food in your house to keep you and your family fed for a short period of time. I'm sure you wish you could keep more, but where could you possibly store it all. Your refrigerator only has so much space and, besides, it can only keep food preserved for a short period of time. There is an option for you - you could build your very own root cellar. Root cellars were effectively the world's first refrigerators; they are natural structures that keep food preserved under the ground. Root cellars can keep your food at a temperature level just above freezing which means it will stay fresh for longer. Inside You Will Learn:* The Secrets To Planning Your Root Cellar * Where Your Root Cellar Should Be Built * How To Get The Right Materials For Your Root Cellar * How To Build Your Root Cellar From Start To Finish * How To Best Store Your Food in Your Root Cellar * Ventilation Tips and Tricks To Keep Food Well Preserved * What To Do If You Can't Get The Right Temperature * How To Ensure You Don't Contaminate Your Food * And Much More Greenhouse Gardening: Secrets of Building a Perfect Greenhouse, Tips for Growing Vegetables and Flowers All Year Round!If you would like to learn more about greenhouse care without having to get a PHD in botany this book is for you! The useless technical jargon that fills other greenhouse tutorials is cut away as we uncover tried and tested methods of greenhouse development. So come along with us as we explore all of the idiosyncrasies of greenhouse methods that have been helping to sustain whole communities for the past thousand years! As we take the lead from Emperors and hipsters alike, going green has never been easier! Some things covered in this book:* Basic Greenhouse Construction * Greenhouse Maintenance * Types of Greenhouse Plants * Diseases and Conditions of Plants * How to Market Your Greenhouse Products