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The New American Homestead - by John H Tullock (Paperback)

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  • Learn how to live sustainably in the city, the suburbs, or the countryMany people are cutting back on consumerism and trying to simplify their lives, realizing that the ""new way"" isn't necessarily the best way.
  • About the Author: John H. Tullock has been an advocate for sustainable living and biodiversity preservation since the 1970s.
  • 336 Pages
  • House + Home, Sustainable Living

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About the Book



"[Explores] how to make wise choices in the design, planting, and maintenance of your residential space, regardless of its size or location; produce your own food; integrate vegetables, herbs, and fruits with locally native species and surrogates that contribute to the restoration of the local ecosystem; acquire a deeper understanding of the continuously evolving 'livingscape' that you can create for yourself, and of its relationship to the ecosystem that nourishes and sustains all life; use your space in the sun to manage health problems, earn supplemental income, and calm frazzled nerves"--P. [4] of cover.



Book Synopsis



Learn how to live sustainably in the city, the suburbs, or the country

Many people are cutting back on consumerism and trying to simplify their lives, realizing that the ""new way"" isn't necessarily the best way. The sustainable living movement goes beyond a desire to protect the environment and practice green living; it's about rediscovering simple survival skills that, in an earlier time, were known and practiced by almost everyone.

The New American Homestead gives you a wealth of information about homesteading--a lifestyle of simple, agrarian self-sufficiency--from raising chickens, bees, and other animals to gardening in earth-friendly ways to canning, preserving, home brewing, and cheese making. The book does not assume that you have a sizable parcel of land in the country; author John Tullock's techniques can be put to use in virtually any space, even a small urban plot.

  • The book appeals to anyone who has a yard, courtyard, deck, or porch with room for gardening; wants to spend less money maintaining a household; and desires to reduce his or her carbon footprint through sustainable living
  • The author emphasizes cultivating foods of all kinds in spaces of one-third of an acre or less, with consideration given to costs, family needs, available space, and the pleasures of the table
  • Includes advice for achieving sustainability in other aspects of urban/suburban life

Whether you're dwelling in the country, suburbs, or the city, The New American Homestead shows you how to live a more sustainable life.



From the Back Cover



Leave the tweeting to the birds . . . and enjoy a more sustainable life

There's a lot we can learn from previous generations. "The New American Homestead" teaches you simple survival skills that, in an earlier time, were known and practiced by almost everyone. You can join the new breed of American homesteaders with a different concept of "living well" in a city, town, or suburb, a concept based not on consumption but on self-sufficiency, not on reckless extravagance but on thrift, and not on the rat race so much as on, perhaps, the catnap.

This book teaches you how to:

Make wise choices in the design, planting, and maintenance of your residential space, regardless of its size or location

Produce your own food

Integrate vegetables, herbs, and fruits with locally native species and surrogates that contribute to the restoration of the local ecosystem

Acquire a deeper understanding of the continuously evolving "livingscape" that you create for yourself, and of its relationship to the ecosystem that nourishes and sustains all life

Use your space in the sun to manage health problems, earn supplemental income, and calm frazzled nerves



About the Author



John H. Tullock has been an advocate for sustainable living and biodiversity preservation since the 1970s. He has taught college courses in environmental science and has lectured extensively on biodiversity and sustainability issues, serving as an invited speaker at the Global Biodiversity Forum in 1997. He is the author of "Pay Dirt: How to Make $10,000 or More from Your Backyard Garden" and a dozen other books.
Dimensions (Overall): 9.18 Inches (H) x 6.06 Inches (W) x .79 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.27 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 336
Genre: House + Home
Sub-Genre: Sustainable Living
Publisher: Howell Books
Format: Paperback
Author: John H Tullock
Language: English
Street Date: February 1, 2012
TCIN: 88266773
UPC: 9781118024171
Item Number (DPCI): 247-35-5763
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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