Archive for March, 2010
SPRING BREAK
Taking a Blogging Break It’s a Holy season for us here on the urban homestead, so going to take a few days break to concentrate on some projects and re prioritize a few things. Lots of things happening, Holy observances and it’s that busy time of year. A farming life is 24/7 and it just [...]
WEEKLY MEAL WRAPUP x 2
I don’t know what it is about this year, but weeks are flying by just too darn fast. I blink and next thing I know two weeks have past. Geez! Before wrapping up what we ate these last two weeks, like to thank those you who took time to share your thoughts on the pay [...]
WILL WORK FOR FOOD
If you’ve seen our short Homegrown Revolution film (now available on DVD – purchase your copy here) where I say that we are “directly and indirectly self sufficient” from our little 1/10 plot here in the city. BTW, the HGR film is NOT the same one that’s on YouTube (view here) which has over 318,000 [...]
FOOD FOREST
“Air Jordanne” I know, I know enough of the supposedly dwarf pea pictures. But we just couldn’t resist just one last one because now I think they are done growing! Pretty soon these peas will succumb to mildew and become goat food. Peas on Steroids? Remember the 9 foot eggplant that we grew one summer! [...]
BUCKET BRIGADE: COMPOST TEA
Before the onslaught of summer – heat and heavy harvest season that tax the plants and soil. It’s that time of year to give the garden a spring booster shot! Here on the urban homestead not only is our primary effort to grow our own food – but soil. Number one thing to remember when [...]
PBS POV & PTF Team Up: FOOD INC SCREENING (April 18)
Growing food one of most dangerous occupations on this earth because you are in danger of becoming free. – Jules Dervaes What: Screening of FOOD Inc (96 min) in collaboration with PBS’s POV When: Sunday April 18 6:00 PM Where: 626 Cypress Ave, Pasadena CA Cost: Suggested donation of $10 paid in advance / *$15 [...]
RECIPES PLEASE
Food is the center of our lives here on the urban homestead – we grow it, cook it and preserve it. Our lives center on the change of seasons, good harvests and bad. The fruits of our labor is reflected by what’s on our plates. Talking with a friend the other day, he mentioned what [...]
URBAN FARMSTAND
Front porch farm stand Getting to know your farmer and where your food comes from. Our urban farming foray’s started back in the early 1990′s when Farmer D smother the front lawn to grow food. After 15 plus years supplying local restaurants we are now expanding our homegrown produce sales to be csa-like. These days, [...]
STALKING THE WILD NETTLE
It’s been really busy here on the urban homestead. With daylight savings and first day of spring, the flurry of activity and projects have increased a hundredfold. Back when we were teenagers, we read Euell Gibbon’s classic Stalking the Wild Asparagus. Since then, we’ve self-taught ourselves to identify wild edibles and their uses – both edible [...]
AROUND THE URBAN HOMESTEAD pt 2
We wrap up another busy week with a pictorial dispatch – highlighting our new grey water project and more! Goat Walk & Talk Student working on an profiling some local eco heroes for a NPR radio piece comes along on one of our goat walks. Jordanne shows her some wild edibles that are popping up [...]
