How to get in Contact
Hello! Thanks for visiting our website and for your interest in our urban homestead. One of our favorite things about having a website is hearing from other people. We welcome your messages and are grateful for your communication and feedback.
We read all e-mail messages, but please understand it is impossible for us to answer all correspondence personally. We want to sit and correspond with each of you and forge long-lasting connections but that would leave absolutely no time in the day for us. There are seedlings to plant, food to harvest, pests to vanquish and animals to feed -- because quite simply, these animals will perish -- PERISH!! -- if we don't feed them right on time to the second. But no worries! Your message hasn't gone to some faceless, nameless computer! Although a volunteer may be the one to respond to your e-mail while the rest of us play juggling match with the multitude of chores, your message was read by one or all of the Dervaes family, and we have dictated our response to you.
Also, since our project has been featured in several media outlets, we are rather behind in personal correspondence, so if your e-mail isn't important (well, all e-mails are important, but y'know what we mean) and time sensitive, please understand that it might take our volunteers a little while to get around to responding at all. Time-sensitive emails are usually addressed quickly.
If you have a specific question, to make it easier for you (and us!), we have created areas on this site to help direct you to an answer. If you cannot find the answer in the FAQs, then please the following directory to filter your request for both our benefits.
If you want to keep up to date with what's going on in this crazy life of ours, apart from reading our Little Homestead in the City blog on this website, you can sign up for our e-newsletter and get all the latest news and urban homestead dirt straight to your e-mail inbox. We're also around on the web, so check out our pages to connect with us through other social medias.
Urban Homestead and Sustainable Living Resource Center
Address and Contact Info
Jules Dervaes, Founder & Director
Pasadena, CA
91103-2905
U.S.A
PH/FAX:
E-MAIL:
626-844-4586
email
Upcoming Tour Dates:
Open Urban Homestead Tour Dates: Currently unavailable until further notice.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:Path to Freedom is a worldwide urban homestead example and model, but it is also our family home and private residence. Please understand that although we want to inspire others by being an example, we are not available to receive drop-in, drive-by visits. Because of the popularity of the urban homestead and the demands on our time, we are unable to give personal tours of the urban homestead to stop-by visitors, nor can we allow you to walk through the front yard and garden as our daily schedule is very full. If you want to make an appointment, please contact us in advance by using the directory provided on this page. We thank you for your understanding and hope someday to be able to meet you all.
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Location Facts
Our urban homestead is located in Pasadena, 30 minutes north of Los Angeles, and near the Rose Bowl, Downtown Pasadena, Memorial Park Gold Line Station, and the 210, 110, and 134 freeways.
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Directory
Help simplify our life! (And process your requests more swiftly!) Please use our directory to find answers to your inquires or to contact our volunteer staff regarding any one of the many aspects of our urban homestead.
Visiting Path to Freedom
Due to the high volume of requests, Path to Freedom is currently not offering any more public tours. However, for more information on the possibility of visiting this original urban homestead, we require you to use our tour request info page for fees and opportunities.
Media / Interview Request
To better serve you on your project or feature, we request that you submit our media inquiry form or give us a call. We are willing to work on projects of all kinds and varieties covering a wide range of subjects. submit
Events & Workshops
Sign up to be informed of the latest Path to Freedom happenings via our mailing list or visit our online calendar
Organic Produce
Visit our organic produce website: DerVaes Gardens
Volunteering & Helping Out
Be a revolutionary! Get involved in sowing this homegrown revolution -- how to volunteer.
Invite Path to Freedom
Invite the Dervaes Family / Path to Freedom to your event - and learn more on what knowledge and expertise on urban homesteading we can offer to your community, school, fundraiser, conference, etc. Fill out our simple form.
Filming at the Urban Homestead
An organic oasis in the city filled with verdant greenery makes a beautiful and unique locaiton for film and photography. submit
Eco Rentals at the Urban Homestead
A bicycle blender, back-to-basics homestead tools, eco films and documentaries and more are all available to rent for your community event, art exhibit, eco-social or fundraiser.submit
