Rainwater Harvesting 
ON THE HOMEFRONT(4)
Goat Walk The time I don’t bring my camera something exciting (other than the goats) happens on our Saturday evening walk. We noticed lots of action on the beautiful and historic Colorado Bridge. Living in LA we are used to such filming productions – especially here in Pasadena which seems to be a fave filming [...]
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WATER HOG HEAVEN
Jordanne hugging a hog, relaxing in hog heaven – dad wanted her to ham it up! HOG Wild No, not of the animal kind (though I am sure ms farmgirl, Jordanne, would have like that kind) – but water. Water hogs that is – straight from the land down under arrive in California. After months [...]
(1) LIFE GROWS ON
Tallest eggplant? 7 foot and growing…. On the Urban Homestead We’ve been so enjoying the cooler weather, certainly helps out the garden and gets everyone to start thinking about indoor activities — like knitting all those UFO’s (un-finished objects) laying around, organizing seeds, etc. In between working on a new website and other PTF related [...]
(2) MOVING RIGHT ALONG
Homegrown tomatoes, homemade tomato sauce “What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.” — Will Rogers Touch of Fall We’re so enjoying cooler temps. Even though we’re at a warm 100 degrees, it’s a comfortable dry, more normal heat that we are used to. Just the ideal weather to get back to [...]
(1) CATCHING UP
canning goodness & garden grown toppings Busy Wow, a whole week has passed already without any journal entries. However, that doesn’t mean there’s nothing going on! On the contrary, we/I’ve been so busy I haven’t kept with the meal postings from the urban homestead. Sorry. I can say it’s been fig this or that, tomato [...]
(Comments Off) ON THE HOMEFRONT
Roll Out the Barrels? On the rain harvesting project word has it that we might finally be getting the space saving rain barrels from Australia by the Fall! We are really excited over these barrels or should I sayWATER HOG’s. These ain’t your typical barrels, these moduleWATER HOG’s can fit in space deprived citified lots, [...]
(3) WATER
Ollas making a comeback in dry regions Water Water Everywhere? Water is on everyone’s brains here on the urban homestead – we are praying for a miracle shower, storm or precipitation of any kind before the long hot summer. With the rainfall being the lowest in over 130 years, the outlook and predictions are scary [...]
(1) OUTREACH
Greywater & Rainwater Presentation After a long and tiring week/day Jules was invited to give a very brief greywater & rainwater presentation last Thursday at the Art Center College of Design as part of the City’s ‘Greening Workshops’. With such new greywater systems and using issues we aren’t experts at all. We are on [...]
(Comments Off) WATER WISE WAYS
O Water Where Art Thou? Over the last 15 years on the urban homestead we implemented a few water saving conservation practices (and we still have a ways to go) around the house • bucket drain (bathroom and produce packing area sink in the garden) – this water can be used to flush the toilet [...]
(2) WHAT’S NEW
Urban Homestead Happenings The latest on the metal roof installation is that it’s not done yet. Thought we’d had a roof in time for the new year but, mother nature, and a phone call, postponed its completion. The sand coated metal roof would have been done had it not rain last Tuesday night into [...]
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