Tag Archive for ‘climate change’
THE LITTLE FILM THAT COULD
After two years of being screened at many film festivals and community viewings throughout the world, we have published (in its entirety) our award winning short film Homegrown Revolution for free viewing on YouTube.
TALLY HO 2009
Well, 2009 is now one for the books. With all the projects going on it took me awhile to get the final tally from Farmer J but now without further adieu our harvest weigh in for December and then for the year. From our ~1/10 acre garden plot (less than 3900 sq. ft.) our December [...]
AUGUST FILM & FOOD NIGHT
How can we survive perhaps the greatest danger we now face – climate change? Global Warming may be a contentious issue for many but there’s no argument – some areas of our planet that were once ‘food bowls’, abundant, fertile and productive land, are now dust bowls where people scratch a living from the dry [...]
POSTING BLITZ ALERT
Glad everyone enjoyed the Oprah piece especially since all the footage she used was from our homemade production HOMEGROWN REVOLUTION. Hey, did any of you catch that fake rooster crowing background noise? After three recording breaking days of heat. Not only did we top the century mark we shattered century records. In just a day, [...]
THE WINTER THAT WASN’T
or sorta… kinda…. never really…. We bounced up and down the temperature gauge this winter leaving gardens and people alike scratching their heads in confusion. The winter that wasn’t had to do with with a weather phenomenon with a pretty name — La Nina. California teeters on the edge of the worst drought in the [...]
PRESERVING FOR FOOD SECURITY
Growing up, I remember looking through my father’s old Reader’s Digest’s Back to Basics book (still have it!) and drooling over the photo of a lady putting up her canned goods. I so wanted to have a pantry like that! This year, I pretty darn close to rivaling the lady in the photo. From Hippie [...]
GARDENS ON FRONT LINE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
Local gardeners do their part to record possible ‘global weirding’ An army of local gardeners is tracking the impact of climate change on backyard flora Early flowering is just one symptom of what Colorado environmentalist Amory Lovins calls “global weirding.” When weather patterns don’t match the season, it disrupts plants’ natural rhythms, like having someone [...]
LIVING THE PATH TO FREEDOM
Sharing the path, Anais & Jordanne give UCLA students a tour of the urban homestead Uprising Radio KPFK 90.7 The recent spike in oil and food prices, and extreme weather conditions due to climate change have led many Americans to consider changing their eating and shopping habits and even their lifestyles. In Pasadena, the Dervaes [...]
NEWBYTES
While we battle an unusual onslaught of harlequin bugs a bit of ‘animal’ news that caught our attention this today… 8 Signs the Animal Kingdom Is Out of Whack – Yahoo! News ‘Out of whack’ – you can say that again! Within the last five years, with pests and beneficials here on the ‘stead we [...]
ANOTHER FILM CREW
Visits the urban homestead. This one, however, happens to be from SBS TV- Seoul South Korea. They are doing a documentary about the climate change and sustainable solutions. They said the special will air sometime in the fall and we’ll definitely give our South Korean readers a heads up on the exact air date. Here [...]
