Epic Homesteading: Your Guide to Self-Sufficiency on a Modern, High-Tech, Backyard Homestead

Kevin Espiritu, the author of Epic Homesteading, demonstrates that anyone can build a modern, high-tech homestead on a modest urban lot, using technology to grow and preserve food, raise mini livestock, set up automated systems, and maximize energy efficiency. He provides step-by-step DIY projects and advice on more complex subjects to help readers create their own epic homesteads.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 25 January 2024
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Kevin Espiritu, the author of Epic Homesteading, has created a contemporary, high-tech homestead on a small urban plot. He shows you how to do the same in his book, wherever you are.

Kevin has demonstrated—thanks to his zeal and willingness to experiment—that you don't have to "go back to the land," live off-grid, or forego contemporary comforts to increase your self-sufficiency and independence. It is possible for everyone.

This approachable, beginner-friendly manual will walk you through using modern technology to grow and preserve food, raise miniature livestock like bees and chickens, set up automated systems like irrigation and greywater recycling, and much more.

The high-tech homesteading ideas and projects presented in Epic Homesteading demonstrate that homesteading is for you, regardless of where you are in the world—city, country, or suburbia. Learn how to:

Use solar power.

Automate rainwater catchment and distribution.

Set up your food-growing spaces, both outdoors and indoors.

Plant and care for a small orchard, including pest management.

Cultivate microgreens and sprouts.

Keep bees, chickens, and quail.

Use laundry and shower greywater in the garden.

Preserve food.

Seek out and utilize free resources.

Maximize energy efficiency through a mini-split system, smart lighting, and timers.

Plus, you'll find large and small step-by-step DIY projects to power-up your homestead quickly. As an added bonus, Kevin also shares advice on more complex subjects, such as investigating local zoning regulations and permitting requirements, staying organized, understanding your limitations, and designing your homestead for efficiency and beauty.

Learn how to make an epic homestead of your own, and, as Kevin likes to say, "Keep on Growing!"

Weight: 930g
Dimension: 278 x 218 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780760383766