Archive for December, 2009
WEEKLY MEAL WRAP UP x2
On a weather note. We got some rain yesterday. Pretty much rained/drizzle/misted all day. What a blessings. Ok now to what we urban homesteaders have been eating. I’ve been behind it the meal wrap up so going to combine two weeks worth in one. Though our plates our not as bleak as Laura’s in the [...]
AROUND THE URBAN HOMESTEAD
“With Pomp, Power & Glory the world beckons vainly, In chase of such vanities why should I roam? While Peace & Content bless my little thatched cottage, And warm my own hearth with the Treasures of Home.” — Beatrix Potter Not sure if you are getting tired of these pictorial posts since comments have been [...]
FROM OUR URBAN HOMESTEAD TO YOURS
Hope everyone had a lovely holiday. Want to thank those of you who sent warm season greetings via email – and a special thank you to the Smith family of VA who went out their way to send us a box filled with yummy homemade spice cookies, a lovely card and $20 donation. Our family [...]
LHITC 2010 CALENDARS
Celebrating 10 Years Online 1999-2009 To commemorate our decade long online presence we’ve put together a pictorial urban homesteading calendar highlighting our favorite photos of the garden, animals, flowers, butterflies and more! Don’t pass up this opportunity…. Support our growing online presence and outreach to the next level. LITTLE HOMESTEAD IN THE CITY 2010 CALENDAR [...]
AROUND THE URBAN HOMESTEAD
While I took a brief holiday from happenings on the urban homestead to give you a glimpse at our travels this year to Greece, Israel, Italy and India – life on the urban homestead goes on and I am going to try to catch you all up on the happenings. But before we go back [...]
HOMEGROWN REVOLUTION IN INDIA
(via Cow Girls & India): When Manish, our main contact at Shikshantar (a local initiative to re-create Udaipur as a zero-waste “learning city”), informed me that our group would have the opportunity to meet with a California-based family of activists called “Path to Freedom”, I was curious but cautious. The prospect of yet another alt-minded, [...]
HOMEGROWN REVOLUTION IN ITALY
After Greece and Israel, the next stop for us and our short homemade film (HOMEGROWN REVOLUTION) was another environmental film festival in Torino (Turin) Italy (Italy’s first capital city and home of disputed “shroud of turin,”not to mention a chocolate hub and being of French and Belgian decent this was our type of town! We [...]
ISRAEL
As I said in my last travelin’ post, I am taking a holiday (not to mention celebrating 10 years of our being online!!!!!) A holiday, from the normal musings here at LHITC to share with you a few blessings that we experienced this past year as our outreach continues to grow worldwide! I’ll try to keep [...]
HOMEGROWN REVOLUTION IN GREECE
Happy Birthday! This weekend Path to Freedom Urban Homestead celebrates 10 years online! Can you believe it, we are older than BLOGSPOT, YOUTUBE, TWITTER and FACEBOOK. What a milestone marker in our journey! For over a decade now we’ve been sharing our triumphs, struggles and growth along with you. Over the course of the journey [...]
URBAN HOMESTEADING: The Dervaes family’s sustainable path to freedom
An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. Mohandas Gandhi URBAN HOMESTEADING: The Dervaes family’s sustainable path to freedom (via Union Weekly) Interview and photos by Chelsea Rosenthal Jules Dervaes, the pioneer of the homesteading movement in downtown Pasadena, believes there are two types of hard. There is a meaningful hard and [...]
