Tag Archive for ‘Dervaes Gardens’
FRONT PORCH FARM STAND
We had some shocking news this month, we’ll can’t really say it was shocking (more sad) because stuff like this always been in the backs of our minds. Long time customer, Elements Restaurant in Pasadena is NO longer buying our produce. Unfortunately, another sign of the economic times.
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!
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 [...]
FROM GARDEN TO TABLE – LIVING GREEN CHANNEL
click here for more videos like this The Dervaes family has picked and delivered the produce from their urban homestead and now Elements takes over with the preparation of the items. The two items featured in this piece are the Dervaes Organic Egg Salad Sandwich, made from chicken and duck eggs, and the Dervaes Salad [...]
URBAN AGRICULTURE IN ACTION
Edible driveway Looking out our front door Reuse of urbanite Another view of edible front yard Backyard intensive, square inch garden 1/10 acre producing 3 tons of produce Approx annual income from DerVaes Gardens ~$ 25,000 year Of the 6,000lb we figure: 60% consumed by family, 30% sold and 10% consumed by animals (these figures [...]
URBAN MICRO FARMING
Before and after. Radical transformation! Backyard plot in 1985 organically transformed early 1990′s to an urban micro farm producing over 6,000 lbs of vegetables, fruit and herbs. Small is beautiful and productive. The recent NY Times video piece focused on our family’s urban farming and homesteading lifestyle. It was seven years ago that we first published [...]
CHEF VISITS THE URBAN FARM
Our homegrown business started back in the mid 1990′s first selling edible flowers to restaurants and caterers in the San Gabriel Valley area. After a few years we then started to expand our growing and selling efforts to herbs and heirloom vegetables. Unfortunately demand exceed supply these days since not only is the garden supplying [...]
