Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World

Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World

Publisher: MISC SA
Author: Coyne, Kelly and Knutzen, Erik
$18.97
If you have ever wondered how to grow vegetables in an apartment, build a chicken coop, or make your own soap from scratch - this book is for you.
 
The essential guide to becoming a producer instead of a consumer, Making It is full of simple, ingenious projects for your home, your garden, and even your fire escape.
 
All Change Begins at Home
Just a few years ago, the idea of keeping a house sounded quaint, like something out of a 1950s sitcom, complete with an apron and a newfangled washing machine.  But as a new generation of canners, composters, home brewers, and knitters all over the country can attest, frugal, do-it-yourself living is back in full fashion.  In Making It, the ultimate guidebook for living a homemade life, Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen take back home ec and restore it to its original, noble form, in which the household is a self-sustaining engine of production at the center of your life.
 
Making It provides all the tools you need for this radical shift in home economics.  With projects ranging from the simple to the ambitious and east, step-by-step instructions, you'll build all the skills you need to do everything from making your own laundry soap to becoming a beekeeper in your backyard.
 
The projects are divided into five categories, based on the amount of time they take.  Day to day, weekly, monthly, season to season, and big projects you'll need to do only once.  You can start with an oil lamp that will just take a couple of minutes, and before you know it, you'll be making vinegar, setting up grow lights, and keeping a worm composter under the sink.  No matter how skilled (or unskilled) you might be, the activities in this book are fun, inexpensive, and eminently doable.  Making It brings a sense of adventure to the most ordinary activities around the house and garden, reshaping domestic chores into part of a more creative, sensible, and sustainable way of life.
 
About the Authors
Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen grow food, keep chickens, brew, bike, bake, and plot revolution from their 1/12-acre farm in the heart of Los Angeles.  They are the keepers of the popular DIY blog Homegrown Evolution and the authors of The Urban Homestead, which the New York Times calls "the contemporary bible on the subject."

Paperback. 310 pages.

ISBN 9781605294629
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Book Title Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World
Publisher: MISC SA
Author Coyne, Kelly and Knutzen, Erik
If you have ever wondered how to grow vegetables in an apartment, build a chicken coop, or make your own soap from scratch - this book is for you.   The essential guide to becoming a producer instead of a consumer, Making It is full of simple, ingenious projects for your home, your garden, and even your fire escape.   All Change Begins at Home Just a few years ago, the idea of keeping a house sounded quaint, like something out of a 1950s sitcom, complete with an apron and a newfangled washing machine.  But as a new generation of canners, composters, home brewers, and knitters all over the country can attest, frugal, do-it-yourself living is back in full fashion.  In Making It, the ultimate guidebook for living a homemade life, Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen take back home ec and restore it to its original, noble form, in which the household is a self-sustaining engine of production at the center of your life.   Making It provides all the tools you need for this radical shift in home economics.  With projects ranging from the simple to the ambitious and east, step-by-step instructions, you'll build all the skills you need to do everything from making your own laundry soap to becoming a beekeeper in your backyard.   The projects are divided into five categories, based on the amount of time they take.  Day to day, weekly, monthly, season to season, and big projects you'll need to do only once.  You can start with an oil lamp that will just take a couple of minutes, and before you know it, you'll be making vinegar, setting up grow lights, and keeping a worm composter under the sink.  No matter how skilled (or unskilled) you might be, the activities in this book are fun, inexpensive, and eminently doable.  Making It brings a sense of adventure to the most ordinary activities around the house and garden, reshaping domestic chores into part of a more creative, sensible, and sustainable way of life.   About the Authors Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen grow food, keep chickens, brew, bike, bake, and plot revolution from their 1/12-acre farm in the heart of Los Angeles.  They are the keepers of the popular DIY blog Homegrown Evolution and the authors of The Urban Homestead, which the New York Times calls "the contemporary bible on the subject."
Paperback. 310 pages.

ISBN 9781605294629