Tag Archive for ‘freedom seeds’
BENEFIT CONCERT
We were happily surprised and extremely grateful to the The Ridgewood Boys of Kentucky who are holding benefit concert for Path to Freedom’s growing outreach.
SUMMER TIME!
Can’t believe we are weeks away from saying “adios” to summer. And just when we thought Ms Summer wouldn’t show, she finally turned up after a pretty cool start.
FARMING IN THE CITY
Our local paper reported that it was colder the first week in July than January. That’s crazy! The unseasonably cool weather did not help the tomatoes out – it hurt them.
Urban Homestead: Local, Organic and in the City
[the] Dervaes Gardens sits practically on top of a Pasadena, California, freeway and is only blocks away from the famous Rose Bowl. Outside are all the trappings of twenty-first-century life: automobiles, satellite dishes, supermarkets, car washes, and stores…
AROUND THE URBAN HOMESTEAD
Another local write-up about the urban homestead that includes Jordanne’s Ginger Soda Recipe (note we use glass bottles but for the article recommend using recycled liter soda bottles for safety reasons) Farming a 1/10 Acre Urban Homestead by Chris Bertrand / Mountain Views News The Dervaes family live simply and richly, farming their Urban Homestead [...]
URBAN HOMESTEADING IN REVIEW
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead The Year of the Urban Homestead My sis and I were talking about “the good ol’ days.” And one thing she brought up that I had forgotten was how we [...]
FREEDOM GROWS HERE
We’ve been getting back positive feedback from our first foray’s into offering safe, secure (and free) seeds (thanks!) When we visited Freedom Farmer S’s plot on Sunday we were thrilled to see his Freedom Seeds growing so well. The veggies were so beautiful that I had to snap photos of the patch of Ashworth Yellow [...]
LOOKING FORWARD
Upgrades are happening as we speak to our homegrown social network – Freedom Gardens. FYI – the upgrades and database wrangling will be happening throughout the day so please be patient with us as we try to get the site back into ship shape. However, lot of the bugs, glitches that were vexing and bothersome [...]
POSTING BLITZ
It’s good to be home. The garden is growing, happy animals, busy bees, seeds to plant, warm earth to dig, loads of peas to pick and more. We’ve done the cross country trip many a times before either by car or train so we knew what to expect; however, this trip was a little different [...]
CATCHING UP
Sorry for the lack of postings recently. Two weeks ago our family feel victim to a nasty flu bug that has been going around. Though we took considerable measures like herbs to combat the sickness the virus just had to take its natural course (though the symptoms were considerably less, thanks to mega doses of [...]
