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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…mehr

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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
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Autorenporträt
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.