Starting off as a young, single woman with a desk job and a city apartment, Woginrich set out to build a more self-sufficient lifestyle by learning homesteading skills. This is the story of her joyful, dramatic, and sometimes sorrowful journey toward self-reliance.

A beginner's guide to self-sustainability in the suburbs
Gardens, goats and chickens in the suburbs? Absolutely!
The easy-to-follow advice in this book will show you everything you need to know to enjoy an abundant, independent life on food and products grown in your own back yard. You may feel like you have superpowers the first time you prepare a meal using only ingredients you grew in your garden. And is there anything you can't do...

"Homesteading" is earthbound skills in a digital age, and authenticity in a mass-produced world. Meyer reinterprets yesterday's necessities for today's enthusiast, helping you put your lawn, windowsill, or spare closet to work as your own personal homestead in the city, and reap the rewards.

"Learn all about how to build sheds, feeders, fences, and other backyard structures to enhance your sustainable living! -- Garden structures: Raised beds, planters and arbors, self-watering beds, grow-light stand, soil blocks -- Fences and pens: Fence post basics, picket fence, solar electric fence, installing and stretching fences, hen pen and hurdle, gates, PVC hen pen -- Housing chickens: Basics for housing chickens, building a coop and run, complete...