Save money, go green: That seems to be the message for “The Urban Homestead” talk, slide show, and book signing, happening at the Los Angeles Eco-Village tonight.

“The Urban Homestead” is a book by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen, who write the blog Homegrown Evolution chronicling their adventures as urban gardeners and farmers. According to the Facebook invite for the event, the book “covers various topics from raising chickens, to carrying cargo on your bicycle, to canning produce from your garden, to harvesting rainwater, and much more! All very inexpensive and step-by-step instructions.”

All of it sounds a bit (too?) hardcore — but I’m hoping to be inspired….

When: Tonight, June 26, 2008 7:30 pm
Where: Los Angeles Eco-Village, 117 Bimini Place, Los Angles
Cost: Suggested donation $5, no one turned away for lack of funds

I’m planning to be there — You? This’ll in fact be my first time at the LA Eco-Village, which I’ve always deemed way too far to go to and return from via public transit in the evenings — let alone bike round trip with cargo! Don’t tell anyone, but tonight I’m driving and may not even carpool!

For more info about the event, email crsp@igc.org or call 213.738.1254. Can’t make it? Read an interview with the homesteaders and buy the book for $15 here.

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