Planting hope, another round of summer crops
A cold front blew through on Saturday, bringing with it colder temperatures (30 degree drop) and even a bit of rain. Temperatures will start climbing once again and by Wednesday we should be baking again with temperatures in the mid 90’s.
This year, we’ve gone through so many flip [...]
Once again it’s time for Freedom Gardeners to guess how many pounds we harvested in September.
Click here to enter and your chance to win prizes! You must be a Freedom Gardens member to enter, contest ends this Friday, October 10th.
HINT: worst September ever, thanks to the wacky weather that played havoc with the summer garden = [...]
The harvest results are in! Drum roll please…. about 500 lbs harvested in June.
For the year we now have harvested over a ton (2,100 lbs) of food from our .10 (1/10th) acre garden plot – the amount we harvested our first year of keeping harvest productions records back in 2001. Can we reach 10K? We’ll [...]
Edible driveway
Looking out our front door
Reuse of urbanite
Another view of edible front yard
Backyard intensive, square inch garden
1/10 acre producing 3 tons of produce Approx annual income from DerVaes Gardens ~$ 25,000 year
Of the 6,000lb we figure: 60% consumed by family, 30% sold and 10% consumed by animals (these figures are guessimates)
Since we grow 99% of [...]
Birds eye view. The Rose Bowl stadium shown in top left photo.
So, we kick off the new year with a new challenge – growing more food than ever thought possible on our small plot of land in the city. We’ve had inklings for some time now that our property could be even more productive but [...]
GROW FOR TEN THOUSAND
Our readers know that that we’ve been hinting for months about a great new project in the works. As we start the new year, the moment has come to reveal our plan, along with a new logo exemplifying the revolutionary spirit of PTF’s Homegrown Revolution™: To harvest 10,000 pounds in 2008 from [...]
