Happy Thanksgiving, Now Go Buy Something

We're kidding. Well, sort of. Hopefully you'll negotiate a truce with your family today to forgo expensive and wasteful holiday gift giving. Like us, you probably are also heavy users of the public library. But just in case you need to find the right gift for the fanatical urban homesteader in your life we've opened a Homegrown Evolution Amazon Store which contains books and tools that we actually own and use around our humble compound. Purchases made through the store and even other items you click through to will help support this website.

A few items in I'd like to call attention to:

Novella Carpenter's Farm City
Carpenter is a phenomenal writer and anyone who's involved in the activities profiled on this blog will love this book. The concluding section, where Carpenter describes raising two enormous pigs in the ghetto is both amusing and profound.


John Jeavons How To Grow More Vegetables
It's the vegetable gardening bible around here. Since we started using Jeavons' methods this fall I've noticed a significant improvement in the health of our garden. The only book on vegetables you need to own.


Haws Watering Can
Jeavons turned me on to this. The can produces a gentle spray that is perfect for watering flats of seedlings. I can't believe I lived without this thing. It's expensive but worth it.


The Urban Homestead
And, of course, there's our own book. If you order directly from us on the right side of this page, we make a few more pennies then when you buy on Amazon. But either way, pick up a copy for the whole family! Help keep our doberman in kibble!