Comments on: SATURDAY STROLL

By: Anais

Anais — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:35:51 +0000

@Nancy: Sorry to hear about the ordinances in your city. We are lucky to live in a city that allows (with certain restrictions of course) keeping a barnyard in our backyards. We had rabbits awhile back and loved them. They are so fun to have. Not to mention their manure is great for the garden. Good luck and keep us posted.

By: Anais

Anais — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:33:03 +0000

@Zach Alba: Hmmm, our front yard does have that sort of effect on people. Glad to hear that. Next thing you know you'll be growing so many veggies you'll be selling them to your neighbors

By: Nancy

Nancy — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:32:17 +0000

Your goats are so adorable. It makes me want two, but can't have any now or maybe ever. There are a bunch of ordinances where I live, and if I ever get chickens, they will have to be kept secretly. My neighbor has two chickens and so far no trouble (and I can can their manure if I want to go collect it!). I will probably eventually get a couple of rabbits from the SPCA, but have to wait until I can build a proper home for them. As always, I love your site and go to it every day. Nancy

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:57:12 +0000

Thanks for all the information and encouragement. Please advise us--we are retired and live in a condominium complex where gardening is forbidden and acres of grass and ornamental bushes are maintained with fossil-fueled machines and toxic chemicals that we residents have to pay for. We tried to sell and move out, listed our condo for sale for 32 months without success. we live across the street from the county's huge mall and several strip malls, with acres and acres of barren concrete parking lots, ninety-five percent empty all day, all night, all year--except at Christmas. Many of the stores and Boutiques are empty, some never-ever even occupied.

Our daughter and son-in law own a house and expansive yard in a rural area thirteen miles away. They have a small garden I would like to help them with, but is the gasoline I would have to burn for a few vegetables a good investment? We have discussed and arranged to move in with them when civil order breaks down. I have taken certain precautions and am accumulating supplies.

Both my wife and I were raised on farms, and know how to produce food and have a profound understanding of how much back-bending work it takes.

Thank you for reading my post.

By: Zach Alba

Zach Alba — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:38:55 +0000

P.S. sorry for the awful grammar. it's late, and im tired.

By: Zach Alba

Zach Alba — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:38:08 +0000

No worries I completly understand! I will send you pictures! And thanks to you guys, my mom is letting me rip out a large chunk of lawn in the backyard all for organic gardening! She saw how nice you're yard looked without a lawn and is letting me rip that part out! Anyways, thanks again. you guys are great.

By: Anais

Anais — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:24:18 +0000

@Zach Alba: Glad to have met you too, always are encourage to see young folks like yourself get into growing their own food! Sorry we couldn't give you a tour of the grounds, just have to keep a fair policy because being in LA there's so many folks dropping by we can't accomodate each and every one of them. Wish we could! Love to see pics of your garden and chickens. Sends us some pictures sometime.
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK.

By: Anais

Anais — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:20:27 +0000

@Debbonnaire Kovacs: Welcome to our site! Thanks for your comments and question. I think the website that you are referring to is the 100 MILE DIET (we not affliated with that site). I was writing about our 100 FOOT DIET Challenge and that's NOT out of date at all! Actually, going to be relauching our challenge to eat closert to home this week! Thankfully we don't have any neighbor troubles (more curious) and every critter but pigs are allow in the city of Pasadena. In fact the City of Pasadena has give us TWO awards for our sustainable efforts. We do have day jobs - we are urban farmers and we grow food for not only our family but making a living by selling the surplus (http://www.DervaesGardens.com) We have female goats so they don't have that bad odor (male goats are smelly) Actually our animal compound is SO CLEAN and has NO SMELL, we can in fact have a TEA PARTY less than 3 feet away from the animals and nobody even knows they are there!! I'm not kidding.

By: Zach Alba

Zach Alba — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:17:29 +0000

Thanks so much for letting me stop by! It was a pleasure meeting you guys!

By: Anais

Anais — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 02:09:42 +0000

@Glenda: Yep, we too are already going into fall mode too! Summer is, sadly, coming to an end and it's not too early to get those fall crops in. Sorry to hear about your heat. The cooler than normal weather continues and we are enjoying it while it last. Who knows the temps could just as well spike again and we'll be toasting!