Tag Archive for ‘challenge’
MARCH HARVEST TALLY & GARDEN REPORT
It’s officially Spring and what a rocky start weather wise. We spiked into the 90’s for a few days and then dipped back under 60 with gray skies and drizzle.
CLUTTER
“A place for everything and everything in its place.” As I’ve said many times before, one of the hardest challenges on an urban homestead is storage and organization.
PUT ‘EM UP! HARVEST KEEPER CHALLENGE
Across the nation, folks are down on their knees, hands dirty, seeds and trowel clench firming in hand determine to grow their own food. With hard work, effort and patience this hearty lot of homegrown soildiers will be blessed up to their eye balls in produce.
REAL FOOD, REAL SIMPLE: URBAN HOMESTEAD MEALS
The summer harvest is now just started to pour in and what a blessings. We are so thankful for the bounty that the earth provides. This week we revisited and revived our 100 Foot Diet Challenge
NOVEMBER HARVEST TALLY
“The Freedom Garden Harvest challenge was started to get more people growing food and also adding up what they grow and harvest, instead of going to the store. Many are surprised by the amount of food that they can actually grow in a small space.” From our 1/10 acre plot, our November harvest weighs in [...]
TALLY HO
Spent the morning tallying up the harvest figures for March and considering we’d been gone for 6 days we didn’t do too bad. March Tally Produce: 265 lbs produce Eggs (duck & chicken): 213 Care to join in our collective growing effort to grow and harvest 1 million pounds. Folks are posting their March harvest [...]
FREEDOM HARVEST CHALLENGE
Our sister social network site is growing daily. Behind the scenes we are working at a frantic pace to put the site together with all the features that we’ve envisioned – meetups, local action packets for FG representatives, blog and more! There are a lot of things we have in the works, but with time [...]
CHANGE BEGINS AT HOME
An organic food group emailed Farmer D with a few questions. Thought I’d share Farmer D’s answers with you since they are some great reflections on food security and the green movement. 1. Where do you think the immediate opportunities lie for making progress in localizing the US food system? For over 20 years, I’ve [...]
WILD & SCENIC SCHEDULE
If you live anywhere near Nevada City CA get out your calendars because PTF is going to be up there Jan 9-11 to give a workshop on urban homesteading along and premier our little in home production Homegrown Revolution. We are also considering a No Cal Freedom Garden meetup while we are up there – [...]
