Urban Homesteading Topics
Everything to get you started with your gardens, food forest, backyard poultry to create a beautiful urban homestead.
Urban Homesteading Topics
- Creating an Urban Homestead
- What is an Urban Homestead – Definition
- Rent with no land
- Standard or double size city lot
- Suburban acreage
- Larger plots of land, your rural farming now 🙂Â
- Building Garden Beds
- In-Ground Beds
- Wood Raised Beds
- Hugelkultur Raised Bed Layers
- Urbanite Borders
- Hugelkultur Beds
- Lasagne / Sheet Mulching Beds
- Ruth Stout Method
- Mulching
- Woodchips
- Chop and Drop
- Poultry Straw
- Fall Leaves Â
- Cardboard
- Mulches to Avoid
- Planting Fruit Trees
- Planting basics
- Types of rootstocks
- Types of trees
- Pruning basics
- Grow a big tree, medium tree or small tree
- Backyard orchard culture
- Fruit tree guilds
- Watering Fruit Trees
- Conventional Gardening or Organic Gardening
- What is Conventional Gardening
- What is Organic
- Conventional Fertilizers
- Organic Fertilizers
- Conventional vs. Organic Pest Management
- Organic Garden Design – Permaculture
- Plant Selection
- How to keep vegetable gardens clear of weeds
- Gardening without Land Access
- Patio / balcony gardening
- Container gardening
- Community gardening
- Guerilla gardening / Guerilla grafting
- Volunteering
- Ask a friend
- Backyard Poultry – Chicken, Ducks
- Benefits of backyard birds
- Chicken basics
- Duck basics
- Poultry run
- Poultry Coop
- Chickens
- Ducks
- Other animals
- Goats
- Quail
- Rabbits
- Sheep
- Animals that might not work in your urban setting
- Guinea Fowl
- Pigs
- Cows
- Turkey
- Geese
- Food PreservationÂ
- Harvest Root Vegetables
- Eat fresh
- Freezer
- Canning
- Root cellar
- Dry storage
- Grain Mill
- Community Network
- Tool library
- Fruit Grower Societies
- Share / trade abundance harvests
- Donate harvests to food banks
- Free or Nearly Free ResourcesÂ
- Arborist Wood Chips
- Fall Leaf Bags
- Top Soil or Cut Sod
- Horse Manure
- Bamboo Stakes
- Soil Amendments
- Steve Solomon Organic Fertilizer
- Lime
- Chicken Fertilizer
- Steer Manure Compost
- Peat Moss
- Compost
- Home Made
- Bag Compost
- Compost Delivery
- Rock Phosphate
- Can you seed directly into compost?
- Garden Design Basics – Farm Style Row Gardens & Food Forests
- Farm Style Garden Rows
- Permaculture Food Forest
- Interplanting
- Crop Rotations
- Watering
- Weeding & Management
- Harvest Pros and Cons
- Tools
- Wheel Hoe
- Wheelbarrow
- Shovel
- Hoe
- Pitchfork
- Garden Fork
- Hori Hori
- Broadfork
- Garden Hand Tools
- Cultivating Tools
- Best Tools for Weeds
- Mechanized Tools
- Rototiller
- Tilther / Mantis Tiller
- BCS w/ attachments
- Urban Homesteading Skills
- Basic Carpentry / Woodworking
- Painting & Staining
- Setting up fencing
- Starting Plants from Seed
- Trays
- Seeding Basics
- Germination & Germination Chambers
- Seed Sources
- Seeding Indoors vs. Outdoors in the Ground
- Propagating Fruit Trees / Shrubs from Cuttings
- GraftingÂ
- Rooting from cuttings
- Indoors on heat
- Outdoors in pots
- Outdoors direct in ground
- Plants that work well for cuttings
- Stool Layering
- Air Layering