We can’t sing the praises enough of clay pot irrigation, an ancient method of plant irrigation – considered the original drip irrigation system. And yes the ollas are 100% LEAD-FREE
The other day we received our spring shipment of ollas – so ya’ll who have been waiting for them we are shipping them out this week! Thanks for your patience.
For you local yokels, if know someone who is an avid gardener/homesteader and
We hosted a FOOD INC screening & potluck on Sunday night and you can too – in your own home!
Tomorrow night at 9 PM (April 21) PBS POV will air FOOD INC in its entirety and is encouraging folks to host a potluck too
Here are some ways you can help (I’ve taken the liberty to [...]
Water! Water is vital to the all aspects of the urban homestead and, though we are dependent on the municipal water source for most of our water (digging a well is out of the question – looked into it), we do our best to conserve what water we do use.
On the homestead in New Zealand, there [...]
Good little article but there are some slight misstatements. 1.) We grow 99 percent of our PRODUCE not diet 2) We do buy supplement animal feed (grains pellets) oh, and our goal is “ZERO” food miles!
Path to Freedom conserves water while cutting ‘food miles’ from Dervaes family’s carbon footprint
By Carolyn Neuhausen PASADENA WEEKLY
On a quiet [...]
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 [...]
We are right in the middle of our travels!
Santa Cruz Jan 18
On the road again and the rain started coming down – pouring from the sky in torrents. We aren’t used to rain like this!
It was certainly a wet and wild drive! Our next stop before the EcoFarm Conference was Santa Cruz to meet John [...]
Well, I thought I was going to be posting about our travels, but it’s taking longer than I had anticipated – because there is so much to share! Still trying to catch our breaths here…. as the tidal wave of work washes over our return to the urban homestead!
I will hopefully get to the travel [...]
Plant Pottery that Works
Ollas this season have been flying off the shelves (virtually speaking) Good news is that the 1.5 and 1 gallons are back in stock so stock up while supplies last. What’s even better is we are getting returning customers who are wanting more for their garden and they have nothing but good [...]
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 [...]
For those customers who have been waiting patiently for their ollas, happy to say the wait is over! We just got our latest shipment of ollas and will be packing and shipping them out this week.
I still can’t get over the simple beauty of these clay pots, they just look so lovely all together with [...]
“There is a myth that there are agricultural societies, and then there are industrial societies and service societies, as if when you become an industrial or service society you don’t need food,” she says. “As we hit climate chaos, as we hit peak oil, assuming that you can get your food from far away and [...]
