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!
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, October 28 at [...]
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 news [...]
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 a [...]
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 healthy school [...]
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 [...]
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 is the [...]
A reader alerted us to a mention of our project in an essay “Food Frenzy,” by Roy F. Moore in Gilbert Magazine, March 2009. Here is an excerpt:
Chesterton said in Orthodoxy: “We must hate the world enough to want to change it, and yet love it enough to think it worth changing.” Among the things [...]
It’s true that we spend a lot of time in the garden, but not like ALL day as some people believe. When people ask about about our lifestyle I describe it to them in very simple terms, “it is like a family farm – just small and in the city.”
But that doesn’t mean we spend [...]
What: Film Screening of ARE WE RUNNING DRY & Local, Vegetarian Potluck
When: Sunday, May 24 (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, dvd screening fee, sound system, and purchase of eco [...]
We have our first raffle ticket winner!
So far we have had 15 raffle tickets “sold” meaning that tonight we can draw one ticket out of the first ten.
And the lucky winner of our first raffle round is J Burleigh
It’s not too late to enter! The more people enter the more tickets we can draw!
For only [...]
It was certainly busy morning today (and will be again tomorrow)- we had lots of orders to fill (and harvest for personal use here on the urban homestead).
Both the owner and executive chef of ELEMENTS KITCHEN dropped by to get a first hand view of what’s growing on the urban farm so they can adjust and [...]
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