Eating out Thursday night. Yep, this is a rarity, a rarity I tell you, for us farm folks! A friend of ours who knows we like to leave early suggested we stop by his favorite restaurant right across the street from the Santa Monica Library for a bite to eat before the presentation. [...]
Our family’s been urban homesteading for the last 20 plus years, but when we started actually documenting our journey online 10 years ago, we knew it wasn’t about “just doing it” but keeping track of what was done.
Keeping records really helps you to see where you’ve been and where you want to go. “Keeping track” [...]
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 new Urban Farm Magazine dropped by and did a brief interview with city farmgirl, Jordanne, and city farmer, “D.”
The Dervaes Family: Pioneering the Urban Farm
Take a tour of the Dervaes family’s urban homestead in Pasadena, Calif.
In the bustling city of Pasadena, Calif., lives a family of urban-farm pioneers. Jules Dervaes has spent more than [...]
In their latest issue they feature a slew of urban farming efforts – including our urban micro farm!
Here’s what Farmer D had to say:
Individual Residences
Examples of the use of individual residences for suburban agricultural use can be found in Pasadena California, and Boulder, Colorado.
Path to Freedom Since 1985, Jules Dervaes and his three adult children [...]
SAVE THE DATE!
Seven years (holy cow seven years!!!!! sorry back to post) after Farmer D’s first urban homestead workshop at the Eco Farm Conference in January 2003 where the first seeds of the modern urban homesteading movement were sown, Farmer D is once again taking part in this 3 day farming conference in January of 2010!
Eco Farm is celebrating 30 [...]
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 [...]
Farmer D holds up a tromboncino squash and asks the audience “paper or plastic?”
On a panel for Q & A
Farmer D takes questions of the screening of HOMEGROWN REVOLUTION.
Farmer D looks over his notes while Urban Heidi has some fun with her sis (me) behind the camera
Last Friday night Farmer D was invited to [...]
Bees and wasps hang out on the sunflowers
Quirky sign
Where’s Farmer D? Can you spot him?
The heart of the home – the kitchen.
After a day’s work, dirty feet
Hanging and chatting around the Freedom Gardens Swap N Trade table
One of the Freedom Gardeners checks out her new FOOD PANTRIE DRYER as she prepares to preserve her garden harvest.
Feeding Blackberry
Enjoying good food and conversation
Movie is about to begin!
I scream time, er, ice cream time! Dig in ya’ll
In the cool, almost quiet, of the [...]
Already passing the 1/2 way point in a 365 growing season and the summer garden is filling in nicely with ripe and semi ripe fruit and veggies. Of course there are a few problems like with the pesky harelquin bugs and a rash infestation of the those horrid sticky black aphids. Hopefully we can contain [...]
Another off the cuff interview with MotherEarthSoup this time with Farmer D (is it just me or are these “informal interviews just great!)
FYI there was a little interruption by me before the interview started, you can see me butting in because some little girls came by selling cards and candy for a $1.00. We couldn’t [...]
Thanks to the folks at OC Rare Fruit Growers who invited us to one of their monthly meetings to give an hour presentation about our journey to live a more self reliant life here in the city (and we are still plugging away at it!)
Over 100 people showed up to hear Farmer D speak and [...]
Another picture post. Enjoy!
Chillin’ chickens
More soil blocks filled with peppers
Wild bergamont
The beginnings of a summer garden
California currants
Huge radishes (these were grown in a homemade self watering container using ollas)
More delicious carrots
Cob oven
Checking in on the bees
This & That
As you can see from one of the photos, this year we’ve had one of our best [...]
The neighboring school’s Kindergarten kids spend some time at the urban homestead to learn, smell, taste and feel.
Farmer D shows a ball of cotton we grew here at the urban homestead – we give each kid a ball of cotton to take home
The kids squeal when they see the tromboncino squash
Animal petting time. I pass [...]
