Eager to start homesteading in your urban or suburban lot? Wondering how to fit anything into the small space you have? Have no fear - everything you need to know is packed into this wonderful, useful and beautiful book by Rachel Kaplan and K. Ruby Blume. With chapters on food and flower gardening, raising urban livestock (bees, chickens goats!), preserving the harvest, medicinal plant use, greywater harvesting and SO much more, the book is everything you need to get started on your own sustainable patch of heaven right away. You'll learn about the different elements that make up an urban homestead, from permaculture design to some common sense how-to projects, recipes and natural building techniques. Beautiful photos and down-to-earth, well-written text will inspire you to get your urban farm up and running with a little elbow grease and a lot of joy.

By Rachel Kaplan with K. Ruby Blume, 304 pages, softcover, 8 x 10"