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October 15, 2008
Urban Homesteading - Tour from David Spancer on Vimeo.
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Tags: kpcc, offramp, urban homesteaders, urban homesteading
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October 15, 2008
Prunning fruit trees
Bed of young snow peas
The last of the summer crops, tomatoes, peppers, beans and squash and a few volunteer sunflowers
In what’s seems like overnight the gardens’ taken on a whole new feel. The towering bean vines and squashes are slowing coming down giving way to cooler weather crops like broccoli and peas.
Even the weather has heralded a new season. The wind! A few days ago the wicked Santa Ana winds came howling down through the passes like a freight train whipping trees and bushes in every which way. The lovely banana tree that grows near the outdoor solar shower beautiful leaves now look all raggedy and shredded to pieces. Poor things. Good thing our goaties LOVE banana leaves.
In the garden
We are turning are focus in not only growing our annual cash crops like salad mix, kale, swiss chard, pea shoots and edible flower but more about feeding ourselves.
Growing our food closer to home during these tumultuous times is growing a secure future for ourselves and our community. So perhaps this year we’ll be cutting back on a few of our “lightweight” cash crops and focusing on a few heavy weight vegetables instead. These last couple day have meant long hours in the garden - pruning, composting and turning over the old and in with the new.
Looking back on the summer’s pathetic growing season we await a new season with hope and uncertainty. Uncertainty on what the weather holds for us this year. Will it be too dry or too cold a winter remains to be seen.
With such a small property it doesn’t leave much room for mistakes and when you put in your crops for the season you put along a bit of faith along with each seed.
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Tags: community, Compost, Composting, Garden, in the garden, peas, summer, Vegetables, Weather
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October 15, 2008
Photographed by Rothstein., ca. 1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Great Depression holds lessons for surviving tough economy (CNN)
Memories of salvaging and stealing to avoid going hungry are part of the legacy of the Great Depression. Some iReporters say they can’t help but look at the current economy and feel the past holds lessons for the present.
Donna LeBlanc of Waxia, Louisiana, says she carries no credit to this day as a result of the frugality and self-reliance instilled in her by her family. Her husband keeps the couple’s credit card and maintains a zero balance.
The Great Depression meant scary times for many households as a period of economic downturn spread throughout the world. Historians trace its start to the “Black Tuesday” stock crash on October 29, 1929, and argue that the resulting global desperation set the stage for World War II.
LeBlanc said her grandparents were fortunate that they didn’t have investments and could grow — or catch — their own food during the Depression years.
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Tags: Back to Basics, cnn, depression mode, frugality, Low Impact Living
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October 13, 2008
In this last LivingGreenChannel.com segment, Farmer D shares some inspiring closing thoughts.
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Tags: elizabeth chambers, living green channel
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October 13, 2008
With one of THE WORST summer harvests in years, with September harvest 524 lbs, the winners for this month’s contest are
First place - AZ Gardener - 550#
Second place - Yvonnes - 580#
Third place - Ann - 627#
Congrats!
Though we are far from enthusiastic with such an extreme plummet in harvest totals and disappointing yields.
It was very weird, it seemed like the garden just went into suspension mode. Very, very odd. Some crops didn’t seem to be effected while other just puttered out.
After 20 years, we have better soil, better watering applications (thanks to the clay pots) and just more experience under our dirty nails; no matter, the weather always has the last say.
How’s everyone’s garden growing, any progress reports, weigh ins? Care to share or sum up how this year fared with previous growing seasons?
We are hearing from other across the country that they too experienced a lack luster growing season. So this is not just an isolated incident.
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