Tag Archive for ‘holiday’
HOMEGROWN TRADITION
The Saturday after Thanksgiving we hosted our (think it’s) Sixth Annual “After Thanksgiving” gathering. New and old friends and this time around even a few of our front porch farm stand customers were invited to celebrate good food and good times.
SWEET DREAMS
I mixed in some fragrant botanicals that are growing here on the urban homestead like roses, lavender, lemon verbena, mint and chamomile. Smells delightful! The herbs in this blend are traditionally associated with rest and dreaming.
FROM OUR URBAN HOMESTEAD TO YOURS
Hope everyone had a lovely holiday. Want to thank those of you who sent warm season greetings via email – and a special thank you to the Smith family of VA who went out their way to send us a box filled with yummy homemade spice cookies, a lovely card and $20 donation. Our family [...]
AROUND THE URBAN HOMESTEAD
While I took a brief holiday from happenings on the urban homestead to give you a glimpse at our travels this year to Greece, Israel, Italy and India – life on the urban homestead goes on and I am going to try to catch you all up on the happenings. But before we go back [...]
WORKING HOLIDAY
Tradition here on the urban homestead if for our family to get together on holidays and work on new projects. Thursday was a gorgeous day – sunny and warm. Perfect for working outside. We look forward to such holidays. It’s like the regular routine around the urban homestead takes a new turn. One year we [...]
AROUND THE URBAN HOMESTEAD
There’s certainly a lot to be thankful for here on our little urban homestead. Another pictureful post for you to enjoy. Have a wonderful and blessed holiday. Best friends. Lucie and Estella are like two peas in a pod. They hang out together and these Belgian banties, though small have such big attitudes are such [...]
TIS THE SEASON
It’s been awhile but with the holiday’s coming up I figured it was a good time as any to remind our readers how they can keep dispatches coming from the urban homestead via Little Homestead in the City (which is still by far the best, oldest and most comprehensive site/blog on urban homesteading if I [...]
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 [...]
PEDDLER’S WAGON OPEN
Over the holiday weekend there was some issues with our online store Peddlers Wagon. Well, we are happy to inform you that all is in order and PW is open and ready for business. Don’t forget you can stock up on supplies for your urban homestead and best off all the profits help support sites [...]
BPFF LAND DAY EVENT
View more photos of the day’s festivities here On Sunday we packed up early and headed to “the beach” for the Blue Planet Film Festival. Sunday was day three of a four day film fest over the Labor Day holiday. On tap for “Land Day” were gardening films (that included the inspiring Homegrown Revolution), clay [...]
