Tag Archive for ‘NY Times’

GOING OFF THE AC

I just wrote about not being able to work the AC at the last event saying it was good practice for the future. I picked up that quite a few people were uncomfortable with the room being warm but if only they knew it has hip and trendy now!  With this latest article in the NY [...]

ON THE ‘STEAD

Clay pot irrigation tomato bed.  Cassidy, our cat, sleeps among the rows of tomatoes Plants are heavy with sun ripen tomatoes.  No salmonella worries on our farm! Summer blooms. It’s a jungle out there.  Lady bug earth oven nestles amongst the garden greenery Backyard garden growing up! The garden giants take over! The four corners [...]

NY TIMES VIDEO: LIFE (Mostly) OFF THE GRID

URBAN MICRO FARMING

Before and after. Radical transformation! Backyard plot in 1985 organically transformed early 1990′s to an urban micro farm producing over 6,000 lbs of vegetables, fruit and herbs. Small is beautiful and productive. The recent NY Times video piece focused on our family’s urban farming and homesteading lifestyle. It was seven years ago that we first published [...]

GREEN DAYS

Earth event at Vromans Bookstore, Pasadena This week is shaping up to be a busy one! In between, spring plantings, caring for animals and other urban homesteading projects we are taking time off for outreach efforts promoting urban sustainablilty and inspiring urbanites to be the change. Tomorrow PTF will be a the big Earth Day [...]

NY TIMES: THE GREEN ISSUE

Some Bold Steps to Make Your Carbon Footprint Smaller Help us help others. Spread the word about PathtoFreedom.com urban sustainability mission and the urban homesteading lifestyle (unforunately, NY Times failed to mention the website). Share this video with your all friends, family and anyone interested in making the world a better place to live. Together we can [...]