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Urban Homestead Facts
LOCATION
Pasadena, CA
(Northwest Pasadena, one mile from downtown Pasadena)
PROPERTY SIZE
1/5 acre (66' x 132' / 8,712 sq.ft.)
GARDEN SIZE
~ 1/10 acre (3,900 sq.ft. / ~ 66' x 66')
GARDEN DIVERSITY
Over 350 different vegetables, herbs, fruits, berries
FOOD PRODUCED
6,000 lbs annually
challenging for 10,000 lbs in 2008 (read more)
URBAN HOMESTEAD SUPPORTS
4 full-time adults, volunteers, and many clients
ENERGY USAGE
6.5 kwh day (and going down!)
SOLAR POWER PRODUCED
8000 kwh ( as of 5/31/08)
GALLONS OF BIODIESEL MADE (since 2003)
1,000 gallons (as of 2/12/08)
"EARTH IMPACT FOOTPRINT" 5.2 acres per person
Tally Ho 2008
PRODUCE
2,100 lbs (6/31)
EGGS
Chicken 518 & Duck 640 (6/22)
HONEY
53 oz (5/19)
Steps Taken
Everyday Steps
Growing 99 % of produce
- 6,000lbs on 1/10 acre
Food Preservation/Storage:
- canning
- drying
- freezing
In the Kitchen:
- baking/cooking from
scratch
- yogurtmaking
- breadmaking
- cheesemaking
- sprouting
- cast iron cookware
- no dishwasher or
microwave
Food Choices:
- buying in bulk
- organic
- local
- eating seasonaly
- reducing "food miles"
- fair trade
- vegetarian(over 17 years)
Raising Small Farmstock:
- chickens (eggs/manure)
- ducks (eggs/manure)
- dwarf rabbits (manure)
- dwarf/pygmy goats
(milk/manure)
Composting Methods:
- making/using EM Bokashi
- vermicomposting
- composting food, garden
and green waste
Fuel:
- homebrewing biodiesel
- running diesel car on
biodiesel(~4,000 miles a yr)
Energy Conservation:
- "powering down"
- cut daily energy use in 1/2
12 kwh to 6 kwh a day
- 12 solar panels
- "green" power
- rechargeable batteries
- line drying clothes
Energy Efficient Appliances:
- washing machine
- refridgerator
- water heater(gas)
Energy Efficient Electronics:
- computer/printer/copier
- TV(no cable)/VCR/ DVD
Energy Efficient Lighting:
- compact fluorescent bulbs
- olive oil lamps
- oil lamps filled with
biodiesel
- homemade soy & beeswax
candles
- daylighting
- solar tube
Non-electrical Appliances /
Hand-powered
- blender
- toaster
- grinder(s)
- popcorn popper
- solar oven(s)
- hand washer/wringer
- pedal powered grain mill
- straight razor
- handcranked radio
- mortar & pestle
Natural beauty/no makeup
Homemade Non-toxic
Beauty Care Products
- toothpaste
- deoderant
Biodegrable/Non-toxic
Cleaning Products:
- vinegar
- baking soda
- lemon juice
Natural Health Practices:
- homeopathy
- herbal remedies
- prevention
Water Conservation Efforts:
- low flush toilets
- toilet lid sink
- reusing laundry water
- limit toilet flushings
- limit baths/showers
- mulching
- handwatering
- clay pot irrigation
- solar outdoor shower
- front load washer
- food not lawns
Hand powered garden tools:
- push mower
- broom, rake
- trowel, shovel
- hand clippers
Self-employed
Working at home:
- honey business
- produce/flower business
- craft business
Crafts & Skills:
- winemaking
- survival skills
- edible landscaping
- sewing
- leatherwork
- fiber arts
- animal husbandry
- holistic care
- tinctures
- carpentry
- plumbing
- building
- haircutting
- bicycle repairs
- soapmaking
- candlemaking
- herbs
- urban farming
- website design
- photography
- self publishing
- video & graphics
Living Simply:
- making use or do without
- bartering
- monthly shopping trips
- reduce, reuse & recycle
- second hand clothes
- salvage/thrift store
- consume less
Passive Cooling:
- no AC
- wood floors
- blinds
- windows
- screen doors
- edible forest
- "living" screens
- solar attic fan
Heating:
- no central heat
- woodstove that uses
scrap wood
- dress in layers
Walking the old paths:
- tithing
- day of rest
- stewardship
Saving seeds
Unschooling
Beekeeping
DIY Projects:
- solar oven
- cob oven
- solar outdoor shower
- depaved driveway/patio
- installed solar panels
- roofing
- sheds, etc
- animal enclosure, etc
- this website
- urban homesteading
Using canvas bags on
shopping trips / no plastic
Transportation:
- biodiesel "veggie" vehicle
- 4 "car free" days a week
- walk
- bike
- carpool
- mass transit
- cross country train trips
- 2 airplane trips in 25 years
"Green" Home Upgrades:
- metal roof
Outreach/helping others
along the path
CURRENT TRAILS
Growing 10k on 1/10
Rainwater
Waste water recovery
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May 9, 2008
Homegrown tromboncino squash, broccoli and cheese pasta dish
Homegrown salad, snow peas and pasta
Tasty green and radish salad
Tray of homemade broccoli lasagna comes out of the earthen oven
Homemade broccoli lasagna with salad
Kale salad with broccoli cheese pasta
It’s Friday and you know what that means? Time for another weekly meal wrap up highlighting what we urban homesteaders ate this week.
This week we are enjoying homegrown strawberries, snow peas, broccoli and trombonico (from our winter squash stash)
SATURDAY (out & about Ten Thousand Villages, Pasadena)
Breakfast - homemade waffles (homeraised eggs) with fresh, homegrown strawberries
Dinner - homemade whole wheat flour tortillas, homemade spanish rice (CA grown organic rice, spices) with organic black beans topped with cheese and homegrown lettuce
SUNDAY
Breakfast - homemade granola
Lunch - leftovers from Saturday potluck
Dinner - homegrown snow peas, homegrown broccoli with CA grown brown rice with homegrown salad
MONDAY
Breakfast - homemade granola
Lunch - homegrown snow peas, homegrown broccoli with organic whole wheat pasta and homegrown salad
Dinner - homegrown snow peas, homegrown broccoli with organic whole wheat pasta and homegrown salad
TUESDAY
Breakfast - homemade granola
Lunch - homegrown broccoli, homegrown green onions, homegrown celery with organic cheese pasta with homegrown kale salad (thanks Merryrose for the dressing recipe!)
Dinner - homegrown broccoli lasagna with homegrown salad
WEDNESDAY (CA Heartland filming)
Breakfast - homemade granola
Lunch - pizza topped with homegrown snow peas, homegrown broccoli, homegrown/preserved peppers with homegrown salad with homegrown radishes
Dinner - leftover homegrown broccoli lasagna with homegrown salad
THURSDAY
Breakfast - homemade granola
Lunch - homegrown snow peas and organic whole wheat pasta with homemade lemon butter with homegrown salad
Dinner - homegrown snow peas and organic whole wheat pasta with homemade lemon butter with homegrown salad
FRIDAY
Breakfast - homemade granola
Lunch - homegrown broccoli, homegrown tromboncino squash with organic cheese macaroni
Dinner - organic whole wheat pasta with homegrown broccoli and kale, homegrown baby field greens, homemade no knead bread and homegrown/homemade wine
Nod
This week’s posts joins some good company at Two Frog Home’s Friday Favorites. Thanks for the nod, Kathie!
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May 9th, 2008 at 11:33 am
How wonderful to be able to eat food from your very own yard.
Broccoli in lasagna sounds good; I’ll have to try it sometime.
May 9th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Wow, your menu always looks and sounds good but this week is torture. The lasagna looks especially good. I can’t imagine how good cooking it your earthern oven made it.
May 9th, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Hi again,
For the broccoli lasagna do you need to cook the broccoli first, or can you add it raw?
May 9th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Yum! I agree with everyone else, that lasagne looks especially delicious.
May 9th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
The food looks absolutely luscious! And, yes, I must agree with everyone: the lasagana looks TOO good. You will have to post a recipe.
In Christ,
Ginny
http://randvfarmstead.blogspot.com
May 10th, 2008 at 6:29 am
Oh it all looks so delicious , now I’m hungry. It is almost dinner time here so now I will have to go make something creative and tasty.
Thanks for the menus and pictures.
Wendy in Nova Scotia
May 11th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Wow those look delicious! Do you ever post your recipes?
May 11th, 2008 at 2:47 pm
Anais,
I see that you guys love pasta! Growing up in the US, I always made lasagna with lots of cheese filling, but here in Montreal, the way I eat it at my fav restaurant is layers of lasagna noodles, thin layers of sauce, and layers of sauteed veggies. That usually means zucchini, peppers, yellow squash, onions, and maybe some spinach as well. They layer all that with only a sprinkling of mozz. cheese on top of each veggie layer. OH yes, and the top layer has thinly sliced tomatoes and another sprinkling of cheese on top of that.
I know that you guys are trying to be self sufficient, so I thought I would pass along a tried and true idea for a mostly vegetable lasagna.
May 12th, 2008 at 8:13 am
Oh my you are making me hungry!! Everything looks and sounds delious.!!