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
Good little article but there are some slight misstatements. 1.) We grow 99 percent of our PRODUCE not diet 2) We do buy supplement animal feed (grains pellets) oh, and our goal is “ZERO” food miles!
Path to Freedom conserves water while cutting ‘food miles’ from Dervaes family’s carbon footprint
By Carolyn Neuhausen PASADENA WEEKLY
On a quiet [...]
Now to the biggest, best farming conference in the West!
Monterey Bay/Asilomar, EcoFarm Conference Jan 20-23
Before the conference started, we needed a place to stay for night or two before we were given our designated rooms on the conference grounds and were blessed with a place to stay beachside. (A big thanks to the Bakke family [...]
We are right in the middle of our travels!
Santa Cruz Jan 18
On the road again and the rain started coming down – pouring from the sky in torrents. We aren’t used to rain like this!
It was certainly a wet and wild drive! Our next stop before the EcoFarm Conference was Santa Cruz to meet John [...]
What: Film Screening of FOOD MATTERS & Local, Vegetarian Potluck
When: Sunday, April 26 (5:30 PM – 9:00 PM)
Where: 626 Cypress Ave, Pasadena CA (see map)
Cost: $10 (children under 12 are free) A small entrance fee is require as it helps pay for facility rental, sound system, and purchase of eco friendly, compostable dinnerware
Space [...]
What: Film Screening of EATING ALASKA & Local, Vegetarian Potluck
When: Sunday, March 29 (5:30 PM – 9:00 PM)
Where: 626 Cypress Ave, Pasadena CA (see map)
Cost: $10 (children under 12 are free) A small entrance fee is require as it helps pay for facility rental, screening licensing fees, sound system, and purchase of eco friendly, compostable [...]
Note this is not a photo accident. We had the 007 Soup for three meals in a row!
Sprouting seeds in our handy Food PANtrie
Last week we enjoyed fresh homegrown broccoli. Since we strive to eat low on the food chain with homegrown vegetables as our main food source this recent article shows [...]
Unlike our summer and fall events, please note the ENTIRE event will be held INDOORS.
What: Film Screening of POLLEN NATION & Local, Vegetarian Potluck
When: Sunday, February 22 (5:00 PM – 9:00 PM)
Where: 626 Cypress Ave, Pasadena CA (see map)
Cost: $10 (children under 12 are free) A small entrance fee is require as it helps pay [...]
Thanks to a local Freedom Gardener, who brought us a lovely jar of plum preserves and a bag of acorn flour!
I fiddled around with acorn flour when I was a teenager and would really like to get back into it. As teenagers we were big on wilderness and survivalist skills – building hogans, forging, wild [...]
Don’t You Miss It!
C.I.C.L.E. + Path to Freedom = Harvest Bike Ride and Potluck Social : Live Music from Triple Chicken Foot
November is a perfect time for acorn soups, warm casseroles, pumpkin pies, bike riding over fallen crunchy leaves, kick ball in the park and an Urban Expedition’s Harvest Ride and Potluck Social. On Saturday, [...]
Orlando Home & Leisure Magazine, October 2008
A Landscape Good Enough to Eat
Save your money, improve your cooking and help save the planet by transforming your lawn into an edible landscape.
By Cindy Heroux
No, we’re not suggesting you chow down on that boxwood hedge or dine on dracenas, but there’s a growing movement called “urban farming” that [...]
The great honey drought
Winter viruses and the wettest August for years have combined to leave Britain’s beehives dry
In 26 years of beekeeping, Ged Marshall has never seen anything as bad as the 2008 honey harvest. A miserable summer that has confined his bees to their hives following a winter bedevilled by deadly viruses [...]
The garden, though not as productive as years past (thanks to the wacky weather) still is yielding an delightful assortment of fresh veggies and fruit.
This week, we experimented making a fruit pizza with a homemade mint (homegrown) crust. Instead of veggie toppings and tomato sauce – fresh homegrown fruit and homegrown strawberry sauce. Everyone raved [...]
Freedom Gardeners of the World, Unite! Photo Copyright 2004 Path to Freedom
Seeding Change: Website Seeks to Liberate Diets—and Wallets—from Supermarket
Site’s “100-Foot Diet” Brings Local Food Movement Home
PASADENA, CA. – July 7, 2008 – Think of it as Facebook meets the Farmer’s Almanac: A social networking site for backyard pioneers who want to fight soaring food [...]
Path to Freedom – Living a simple, yet sustainable life with Jules Dervaes
Published in July Issue of 31tenMagazine.com
With headlines about rising food costs, soaring gas prices, and skyrocketing foreclosure rates that reach directly into everyone’s wallets, as well as sobering reports about the state of the earth’s environment, there is mounting pressure for some relief. [...]
One thing and urban homesteader learns early one – it’s all about records. Keeping records helps motivated you to better yourself each year, outline successes and failures, not to mention, tally up all those baby steps taken along the way.
Although we’ve always had a pretty productive garden since I can remember our growing efforts turned [...]
The garden’s bounty is starting to roll in. Lots of good homegrown eats, here’s a menu of what we urban homesteaders enjoyed last week.
SATURDAY
Breakfast – homemade, homegrown blueberry pancakes (made with homeraised eggs) and homemade, homegrown strawberry sauce
Dinner – homemade whole wheat tortillas, homemade spanish rice (homegrown green onions, peppers, cilantro) with organic black [...]
It’s harvest days here on the urban homestead! Picking potatoes, turnips, blueberries, strawberries, peaches, beans, broccoli and more.
SATURDAY
Breakfast – homemade, homegrown blueberry pancakes (made with homeraised eggs) and homemade, homegrown strawberry sauce
Dinner – homemade whole wheat tortillas, homemade spanish rice (homegrown green onions, peppers, cilantro) with organic black beans
SUNDAY
Breakfast – homemade granola
Lunch – leftovers [...]
