Whether You live in an apartment in Chicago or a condo in Florida or you have a good sized city lot in Kansas City, you can enjoy urban homesteading. I believe homesteading in today culture is more of a state of mind. It’s how you feel about your life. Kinda like a philosophy on how to live your life.
Living in an apartment with a small balcony or a walk out area you can grow 80% of all your salad fixins. A 4 X 6 balcony… you can have all the salad greens, radishes, onions, tomato’s and cucumbers for 8 months of the year. While your at it… no reason not to have basil, parsley, rosemary, cilantro, dill and thyme and what ever you like to use for seasonings when cooking.
There are other consideration for how to enjoy the spirit of homesteading…like turning off the hot water heater while at work or sleeping. You would be surprised how much money that can save over the course of a year. Just these two… growing your own vegetables and turning off the electric hot water heater can save over 5 or $600 per year.
So we really are talking about a state of mind… so join me for a fun and enjoyable journey down a road travailed in simpler times. We will cover many topics of how too’s by visiting some very interesting homesteaders from around the world. We will look at the way they achieved being more self-sufficient and have a less hectic life style…Till we meet again rg