Tag Archive for ‘dirt’
HUNG OUT TO DRY
Well, since I have never had a dryer to use (except when visiting friends or traveling), I cannot comment on using a dryer from firsthand experience. All I know is that an electric clothes dryer is an energy hog.
FROM FARM TO FORK
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 [...]
DISPATCHES FROM THE URBAN HOMESTEAD pt 3
The weather changed over night – weather whiplash we call it! After being spoiled with a week or so days of 80 degree temps, it’s dipped back into the 60′s with a chance of rain today and more next week. Continuing with our pictorial posting blitz…. Playfulness! Jordanne and Fairlight make faces at each other [...]
DISPATCHES FROM THE URBAN HOMESTEAD pt 2
Gearing up for spring, not only is there planting to do, new projects to tackle, there’s lots of maintenance to be done too! Justin give the citrus a hair cut Hive maintenance. Look at that frame – heavily loaded with dark “winter” honey! Hive tool in hand, checking on the brood Watching bees is mesmerizing [...]
MORNING HAS BROKEN
Justin is the earliest riser of us siblings. He’s got a lot of energy and wants to get out in the garden first thing in the morn. Yep, he’s a born farmer – got dirt in his veins. While we gals are still rubbing the sleepiness from our eyes, Justin’s out checking if all’s well [...]
ON THE PRESERVATION FRONT
It’s a messy, sweaty, steamy and sometimes sticky work; but the fruits of our labors are certianly worth the hours of labor. With summer winding down, canning efforts have increased so that our cupboards will be stocked for fall and winter. Here on the urban homestead we try not to purchase any canned food products [...]
HOMEGROWN FILM SCREENING RHODE ISLAND THIS SATURDAY
Screening this Saturday at Rhode Island International Film Festival Sat. Aug 8 @ 3:00 pm Columbus Theatre Arts Center Providence , RI HOMEGROWN a FILM BY ROBERT MCFALLS By dawn, the interchange of the 134 Freeway and Interstate 210 is already starting to thrum with traffic. But only a hundred feet away, the Dervaes family [...]
SMALL WORLD
Sure, it’s exciting to get out of the blue calls from media outlets but it’s a superficial sort of excitement. It passes very quickly. The other day we got an unexpected phone call which has me/us all excited still three weeks later. It went something like this…… The person on the other line: “Hello, I [...]
AROUND THE ‘STEAD
Yard work Winter tomatoes Farmer J shows off his heads of broccoli And another beauty Dining room turned seed business Justin packing seeds for Sunday With the prospects of of a dryer than normal season, thanks to La Nina, (our normal is between 14″ & 19″ — see rainfall totals for the past 130 years) [...]
HOMEGROWN ON IMDb
HomeGrown (2008) HomeGrown is the inspiring true story of a family “living off the grid” in the heart of urban Pasadena, California. They harvest over 6,000 pounds of produce on less than a quarter of an acre, while running a popular website that is known around the world. The film is an intimate human portrait [...]
