Tag Archive for ‘family farm’
REAL FOOD, REAL SIMPLE – URBAN HOMESTEAD MEALS
On the food front… The figs are finally ripe so we devoured our first fig quesadilla of the season. I know, sounds odd but it’s soooo delicious!
REAL FOOD, REAL SIMPLE: Weekly Meal Wrap Up
Whew doggie! It’s been a busy week here at the urban homestead. Busy with bees (getting ready to harvest some honey!), battling bad bugs, moving the tender greens to cooler spot in the yard and getting things ready for a major can-a-thon.
ECOFARM CONFERENCE, ASILOMAR CA
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 [...]
SCREENING NEWS
The highly acclaimed and anticipated HomeGrown – 21st Century Family Farm (by Robert Mcfalls) is now available for community screenings via : http://homegrown-film.com/host.html Please note: (Since we are constantly asked this) — Despite popular belief, we have not received any monetary benefits from HOMEGROWN . Zip, zero, nada, zilch, nothing. So, although we greatly appreciate [...]
HOMEGROWN-21st Century Family Farm Screenings
And on the HOMEGROWN film by Robert McFalls front there’s a few other screenings to report HomeGrown will be screening at the Corona Cork Film Festival in Ireland. Our first showing in Europe! And here are a few more screenings to be aware of. Environmental Film Festival in the Nations Capital -Sneak preview screening Wednesday, [...]
CANADA RADIO INTERVIEW TONITE
Farmer D on Canadian radio with host Carol Off. The interview will air on tonight’s edition of As It Happens, along with a credit for this weekend’s screening of Robert McFalls documentary Homegrown at the Planet in Focus film festival in Toronto. Broadcast times are always subject to change if something crops up on the [...]
TIDBITS
Now I know this week’s entries have been off our regular topics – like what we’ve been up to here on the urban homestead. But that’s how things go around here and if I do get around to telling about goings on this week – well, there’s certainly a story in that. Anyhow, it’s been [...]
SUNDANCE PROMO
Check out BIG IDEAS FOR A SMALL PLANET Episode 303 promo which features the urban homesteaders Airs on Tuesday, August 18 at 8:00pm e/p Episode 3: Edibles. Industrial food production has nearly eliminated small family farms and access to fresh food. Can we imagine a healthy food revolution? Ideas include urban farming, immigrant farmers and [...]
SUNDANCE: BIG IDEAS FOR A SMALL PLANET
Last summer a film crew from Sundance Channel came by the urban homestead for a couple days of filming and the episode will finally air this August. We don’t have cable so we’ll not be able to see how the episode turns out. Not sure if they will put it online so relying on a [...]
HOMEGROWN FILM REVIEW
Via THE FILM YAP.com “HomeGrown” is a documentary about a family running an urban organic farm that holds a twofold fascination: The amazing process by which the Dervaes clan reaps such a bountiful harvest from a miniscule piece of land, and the way living in tune with nature binds them together as a family. Jules [...]
