Archive for May, 2009
FOOD INC
All together! PTF volunteers and supporters (four who left a little earlier before we came to take a group photo. Also, want to thank SJ for bringing us some lovely scented gardenias to wear in our hair! Last night the PTF/FG organization (some 25 of us) attended the LA premier screening of the highly charged [...]
MINI POST BLITZ
Well, I did it. Hell and high water didn’t come but a flurry of journal postings instead. Pull up a chair and cuppa…. Hope you enjoy the last five entries as I share with you our memorial day outing (complete with a cockatoo and goats!), upcoming events down San Diego way, our presentation at the [...]
STORIES FROM THE HOMEFRONT
Sometimes there are days when folks relate to you some little tidbit about their life that makes your day. This weekend there were two which did just that. We get loads of emails and although we do read them, not sure if we are completely digesting them since were experiencing a extreme case of brain [...]
PTF IN OC
Thanks to the folks at OC Rare Fruit Growers who invited us to one of their monthly meetings to give an hour presentation about our journey to live a more self reliant life here in the city (and we are still plugging away at it!) Over 100 people showed up to hear Farmer D speak [...]
LHITC on EURANET!
Little Homestead in the City site of the day on European Radio Network. Check out the little radio byte Hmmmm……. rather interesting part about “skipping through fields of buttercups!” Sadly as Jordanne pointed out “there ain’t no fields of buttercups here – just concrete”
COTTONWOOD CREEK FILM FESTIVAL (June 5-6)
Homegrown Revolution Screening in Encinitas with Dervaes family as special guests (and if you read further on we are trying to wrangle a OC/San Diego FG Gathering while we are at it!) Event Details VIP PARTY WHEN: Friday June 5 7:30-9:30pm WHERE: Lemongrass Salon 910 2nd Street Come celebrate the Second Annual Cottonwood Creek Environmental [...]
HOMEGROWN WEEKEND
There are going to be a few posts (this one and a few after) that are going to catch you up on the happenings which are now a part of our lives. For me, this online journal is all about keeping records of the events in our lives and, sometimes, such goings on happen in bunches! [...]
OC RARE FRUIT GROWERS
Orange County Rare Fruit Growers special presentation ‘Homesteading in the City’ with Jules Dervaes WHEN: Tuesday, May 26 ( 7:30 PM – 9 PM) WHERE: Orange County Fairgrounds, Costa Mesa COST: Admission is FREE Memorial Gardens Bldg. Parking in the Festival Field Lot (SEE MAP)
GOINGS ON
Another busy weekend! Later on going on a picnic with friends and our goats – yep another local “home holiday”! I have a bit of catching up to do, not only here (like with the weekly meal wrap up post) but around the urban homestead. One friend commented to me yesterday when I was running [...]
PICTURE POST
It’s been a busy week here on the urban homestead – working bees, planting summer veggies, preserving and more. What more could a busy bee ask for but purposeful work that fills our days. The camera these days is my constant companion since there’s so much goings on everywhere I turn. So without further ado, [...]
