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Urban Homestead: Local, Organic and in the City
[the] Dervaes Gardens sits practically on top of a Pasadena, California, freeway and is only blocks away from the famous Rose Bowl. Outside are all the trappings of twenty-first-century life: automobiles, satellite dishes, supermarkets, car washes, and stores…
FRESH, LOCAL, ORGANIC
image courtesy of Elements kitchen weekly enewsletter Look what was in our email box today! “We Love Freshly Picked Dervaes Greens… We make special salads featuring them, always lightly dressed so their fresh flavors are enhanced. The unique blend of mesclun greens (which might include anything from baby celery leaves to baby arugula or mizuna [...]
FRESH FROM OUR GARDEN TO YOUR TABLE
This week we have a few surplus veggies and fruit if you’d like to order. heirloom tomatoes italian summer squash (better than zucchini! ) and figs (green and purple) If any of your local yokels are interested check out DerVaes Gardens and give us a call or email. Thank you for supporting locally grown!
UNUSUAL EDIBLES
Having so much flora here on the urban homestead one never really gets to figuring out all the ways one can go about using and preparing all the different parts of a plant- there’s the fruit, flowers, roots, shoots, leaves etc that are edible and even useful but overtime we’ve lost all that know how [...]
FREEDOM PLOTS
Plots of opportunity on urban eco-farms (The Natural Food Merchandiser) by Vicky Uhland The Dervaes family’s 1,500-square-foot vintage Craftsman bungalow, set on a standard city lot a mile from downtown Pasadena, Calif., is an unlikely homestead for a working farm. And yet Jules Dervaes and three of his children manage to grow 350 varieties of [...]
FRESH FROM THE FARM LIVING GREEN CHANNEL
click here for more videos like this The Dervaes family makes a produce delivery in their bio-diesel suburban to Elements Kitchen in down town Pasadena. The delivery includes duck eggs, chicken eggs, and fresh organic produce picked moments before delivery.
