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The urban homesteading cookbook : forage, farm, ferment and feast for a better world / Michelle Catherine Nelson ; with photography by Alison Page.

by Nelson, Michelle Catherine, 1979-

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Douglas & McIntyre, [2015]

Wild plants, Edible -- Canada.

Canning and preserving.

Urban homesteading.

Self-reliant living.

Sustainable living.

9781771620819 (pbk.)

1771620811 (pbk.)

256 p. : colour ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes index.

A note on ingredients -- Foraging -- Keeping -- Growing -- Preserving.

"Michelle Nelson began urban homesteading in her East Vancouver apartment. Armed with a passion for food and farming, and a Ph.D. in biology, she shares her hard-won knowledge and recipes with readers interested in collecting, growing and preserving sustainable food -- even when living in an apartment or condo. She explores the foraging of wild urban edibles, eating invasive species, keeping micro-livestock, bees and crickets, growing vegetables in pots, small-space aquaponics, preserving meats and produce, making cheese and slow-fermenting sourdough, beer, kombucha, kefir and pickles. Nelson fervently believes that by taking more control of our own food we will become better empowered to embrace sustainable lifestyles and communities. With seventy recipes, including sesame panko-crusted invasive bullfrog legs, seaweed kimchi, rabbit with wild chanterelles, roasted Japanese knotweed panna cotta, teriyaki pineapple rabbit jerky, canned deer, rabbit & kale stew, and dark and stormy chocolate cupcakes with cricket flour -- this is sure to inspire readers to embark on their own urban homesteading adventures. Miclelle Nelson lives in a tiny cottage on Bowen Island, British Columbia"--Provided by publisher.

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