Tag Archive for ‘farmer d’
EARTH CARE WEEK
Although we couldn’t attend all the events we were invited to (sorry, folks, perhaps next year!) due to conflict of schedules with Holy Week, we still did have a jam packed week!!!
Urban Homestead’s 2010 Year in Review
I know it’s a bit overdue (thanks to busy & rough start to the new year) and, honestly, I was putting it off because I am having a really BAD case of writer’s block…. but here it goes!
KCET FEATURES THE URBAN HOMESTEAD
Our first appearance on the local PBS station KCET was in 2003 which featured a little blurb about our garden. We’re back!
Val Zavala visits the urban homestead and this segment will be featured So Cal Connected and air
OUT & ABOUT
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. [...]
UPDATED! STATS & GRAPHS
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 [...]
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 [...]
INTERVIEWS WITH THE URBAN HOMESTEADERS
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 [...]
URBAN LAND GREEN
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 [...]
2010 ECO FARM CONFERENCE
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 [...]
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 [...]
