Simple Living for Urban Dwellers
Free / donations recommend for light refreshments that will be served
Simple Living for Urban Dwellers & Dinner with the Dervaes family Sunday Dec 12
The schedule is as follows:
11-11:15 Assemblyman introduction
11:15 - 11:30 Superintendent of schools
11:30 - 12:00 Principal introduces three teachers who have been working with the 3 gardens
12-12:15 Yolanda and Geraldine Carpentier will introduce Mr. Dervaes
12:15 - 2:00 URBAN HOMESTEADING PRESENTATION
2:00 - 4:00 Light refreshments, roaming musicians, etc., in garden.
Cost: Film screening and urban homesteading power point presentation is FREE
Film Screening
Jules Dervaes and his family will be on hand for the screening of their award winning homemade short film titled "HOMEGROWN REVOLUTION" which tells the story of their pioneering 25 year pioneering journey to turn their ordinary home into an extraordinary urban homestead
Immediately following the screening is
Urban Homesteading Presentation
Jules Dervaes will lead a presentation how they have transformed their ordinary urban lot in Pasadena into an urban homestead & highly productive micro farm that supplies them with food year-round.
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"So we figure we're preparing ourselves to live simply. If you look around, you'll see riches here but it's in the form of tomatoes and peppers and animals. So we're going backwards, and I say a step backwards is progress." JULES DERVAES
PRESS RELEASE
Path to Freedom THE ORIGINAL MODERN URBAN HOMESTEAD Pioneering a journey towards self-sufficiency, one step at a time Founder of the worldwide Urban Homesteading movement, Jules Dervaes, visits the Coachella Valley Sunday, December 12th at 11:00am at the Palm Springs High School’s Auditorium. California State Assemblymember V. Manuel Pérez will be on hand to welcome Mr. Dervaes, who will speak and show his family’s short film, Homegrown Revolution. Jules Dervaes is the founder of the modern urban homestead movement, began at Path to Freedom in 2001 in Pasadena CA. Their family-operated, viable urban homestead project was established to promote a simpler and more fulfilling lifestyle, and to sow a "homegrown revolution" against the corporate powers that control the food supply. Palm Springs High School faculty and students who are members of the PSUSD Organic Garden club will also make a presentation on their project after the film. The first half of the event is free and open to the public. For more information, please visit http://desertecoevents.org.
Following the film and discussion, there will be an organic early supper benefiting the Palm Springs Unified School District’s organic gardening projects. Individual tickets are $35.00. Students volunteering to help set up and serve the meals will eat free. Tickets are available online at www.desertecoevents org and through various PSHS student groups. The organic banquet will be catered by Palm Greens Café, and the fresh produce is being provided by County Line Harvest. Student members of the PSHS organic garden club will help serve the feast. The City of Palm Springs’ Office of Sustainability helped make this event possible through their generous support.
In his presentation illustrated with stunning photos of his Pasadena urban homestead, Jules Dervaes will share the steps individuals can take, where they are and with what they have, to become self-sufficient and live as responsible stewards of the earth.
This program will include a screening of the family’s popular, multi award-winning film Homegrown Revolution documentary that was done in-house as a short film to introduce their urban homestead and explain the steps and brief history of its creation and share their struggles, joys, defeats, and successes on this pioneering journey. This highly acclaimed film is being shown at film festivals around the world. Mr. Dervaes and his family have been the subject of numerous articles in newspapers and magazines worldwide, including the New York Times Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Mother Earth News, Telegraph Magazine (U.K.), the Times of India and FAZ, and were recently featured on ABC's Nightline, CNN, Sundance Channel, and Food Network. Mr. Dervaes is a sought-after speaker on a wide variety of topics related to urban homesteading and pressing environmental issues. Clips from the film were featured on Oprah’s Earth Day 2009 special.
Since the mid 1980’s he and his three children have been on a journey -- a path to freedom -- to live and eat off the grid. After 20 years of trial and error, they have become so successful that they now produce nearly three tons of organic food a year from their fifth-of-an-acre property. Along with other rather unusual suburban features, such as a mini farmyard with goats, chickens, ducks and bees and a hand powered washing machine, their urban homestead is only a 15-minute drive from the downtown L.A.
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