Title Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- leashing The Homesteader Within -- Chapter One - Start Your Own Farm -- Strategies For Growing Food In The Urban Setting -- Permaculture -- The Practicalities Of Growing Food -- Chapter Two - Essential Projects -- Essential Projects -- A Treasure Chest of Garden Projects and Advice -- Chapter Three - Urban Foraging -- Feral Edibles -- Invasive Edibles -- Fruit Foraging -- Tools For The Fruit Harvester -- How To Eat Acorns -- Dumpster Diving -- Revive Day-Old Bread -- Chapter Four - Keeping Livestock In The City -- The Chicken is the New Pug -- Chickens For Meat -- Chicken Q & A -- Ducks -- Rabbits -- Pigeons: A Modest Proposal -- Quail -- Bees -- Chapter Five - Revolutionary Home Economics -- Preserving The Harvest -- How To Can -- Pickling via Lacto-Fermentation -- Dehydration: Why Save It For Hangovers? -- Three Methods For Drying Food -- Preserving With Vinegar -- Preserving Fruit In Alcohol: Le Cherry Bounce (Cerises à l'eau-de-vie) -- Preserving Root Vegetables -- Transforming Excess -- How To Culture Milk -- Cheesemaking -- Making Butter -- How To Make Fruit Butter -- Making Stock -- Five Ways to Preserve a Tomato -- The Homestead Speakeasy: From Mead To Moonshine -- Baking On The Homestead -- Cleaning The Urban Homestead -- Our Cleaning Cupboard -- Other Cleaning Aids You Might Want to Keep Around -- "Green" Cleaners We Are Not Really Down With, But Others Use: -- All-Purpose Spray Cleaners -- Less Toxic Ways To Deal With Unwelcome Critters -- A Homestead Of Your Own -- Location Location Location -- Chapter Six - Be Your Own Utility: Water And Power For The Homestead -- Harvesting Water -- Harvesting Rainwater -- Rainwater Harvesting Technique 1 -- Rainwater Harvesting Technique 2 -- Rainwater Harvesting Technique 3 -- Rainwater Harvesting Technique 4.

Rainwater Harvesting Technique 5 -- Rainwater Harvesting Technique 6 -- Non-Invasive Greywater Methodologies -- Highly Invasive Greywater Strategies -- Power To The People -- Principles -- Heating 49% -- Cooling 49% -- We're Fans Of Fans -- Water Heater 13% -- Alternatives To The Gas-Heated Shower -- Solar Water Heaters For General Household Hot Water -- Lighting 10% -- Stoves and Microwaves And Small Appliances (8%) -- Parabolic Cookers -- The Built-In Solution: A Wall Cooker -- Electronics 7% -- Washer & Dryer 6% -- Refrigerator 5% -- Dishwashers 2% -- Generating Your Own Power -- Electricity From Solar Power - The Components -- Solar Systems: Small, Medium And Large -- Chapter Seven - Transportation -- Transportation Principles: -- The Urban Homestead Transportation Triangle: Walking, Biking, Mass Transit -- Conclusion: The Future -- Resources -- About the Authors -- Copyright Page.