I’m a little late in posting LAST week’s meal wrap up. Adhering to the old cliche “better late than never,” here’s the latest goodies that we’ve been enjoying
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 [...]
Organic matter is known as the “soul of a healthy soil.”
Adding compost to your yard or garden soil will help your plants grow bigger and healthier. The organic matter in compost helps soil hold on to nutrients and water.
Composting saves you money
Using compost as a soil conditioner or mulch reduces your need to purchase these [...]
Sorry, a little tardy on posting our harvest totals for February.
Here they are
Produce (fruits, veggies, herbs) 138 lb 13 oz
Eggs Chicken 63 Duck 19
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Weeks are going by so fast, by the time I turn around I am already behind in posting our week’s worth [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We interrupt our regular posting schedule for some important news…..
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Our nonprofit is looking to raise some “grass roots” funds to help keep our webmistresses [...]
Well kind folks, that’s the end of the mini posting blitz.
I leave you with three “meaty” entries and one regarding an upcoming film screening for you to digest over the weekend. There’s a slew more where that comes from but there’s urban homesteading duties that call.
Enjoy.
It’s that time again! I can feel you all leaning forward towards your computer screens with excitement as LHITC brings you another slew of dispatches from the urban homestead.
Coming tomorrow musings and photos from our urban homestead to yours.
Oh and now that the year’s coming to a close we’d love to hear your thoughts on [...]
{note: this entry was written over ONE week ago, and delayed in publishing by the injured duck }
There’s some interesting goings on around the urban homestead The guys have been filling up the driveway with piles of sand, lumber is being brought in, coils of huge black hoses and more!
Yep, there’s some serious work going [...]
Hold onto your mices /mouses – whatever – and get ready for another slew of posting and photos straight from our urban homestead to yours.
Starting tomorrow!
Via THE FILM YAP.com
“HomeGrown” is a documentary about a family running an urban organic farm that holds a twofold fascination: The amazing process by which the Dervaes clan reaps such a bountiful harvest from a miniscule piece of land, and the way living in tune with nature binds them together as a family.
Jules is the [...]
Sorry, word has it that Seattle is hot, they musta sent their weather our way!
Finally, the grey gloom gave way to some actual wet stuff. Yep, it “rained” a bit yesterday and later on in the day the sun peeked through for a bit. Of course with some sun rays (first we’ve seen in a [...]
It’s been three years since we brought Lady Fairlight and Blackberry home with us on the bus (read New Kids on the Block). Yeah, you read right – baby goats on a bus!
They’ve certainly earned their stay here on the urban homestead offering us countless hours of entertainment, loyal companionship and are the best composting [...]
Well, I did it. Hell and high water didn’t come but a flurry of journal postings instead. Pull up a chair and cuppa….
Hope you enjoy the last five entries as I share with you our memorial day outing (complete with a cockatoo and goats!), upcoming events down San Diego way, our presentation at the OC [...]
Growing Your Own Food
Benefits, Techniques and Resources
Monday, May 11, 6:30PM
Santa Monica Main Library, 2nd Floor
601 Santa Monica Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90401
Money is tight and putting your yard to productive use by growing
fruit and vegetables seems like a great idea, but how realistic is
this goal?
This event will explore the just how easy it is for one [...]
Never a day goes by without some case of crazy animal antics. The animals are an integral part of the urban homestead; not only do they provide a great composting service (most of them) but also hours of delightful entertainment (we don’t have cable TV).
Here are some of our animals, sticking their noses and paws into [...]
{Written on Friday but didn’t get around to posting it}
I’ve pretty much finished the posting blitz with over a dozen entries in 2 days! What a doosey! Catching my breath now.
Hope you enjoyed playing catch up with me.
This weekend we’ll be Out & About.
Saturday (April 25) come down and see us at GREENING THE EARTH [...]
Through the posting blitz. Whew!
Hope you are enjoying reading up and viewing the photos. Still to come out & about at the eco fair at Universal Studios, garden and urban homestead photos, weekly meal wrap up and more!
At the Pasadena Smith & Hawkens store on Saturday April 18th over 40 plus people turned out to hear Jules Dervaes talk about composting methods he uses around the urban homestead. He covered about a dozen different types and composting methods that he’s used over the past twenty five years.
From simple methods like: mulching, [...]
Glad everyone enjoyed the Oprah piece especially since all the footage she used was from our homemade production HOMEGROWN REVOLUTION.
Hey, did any of you catch that fake rooster crowing background noise?
After three recording breaking days of heat. Not only did we top the century mark we shattered century records. In just a [...]
In the day. We have one more busy week to go with Earth Week and then everything should (hopefully) go back to normal.
I have two weeks of meals sitting here on my desk (um that didn’t come out right – the menu list NOT the actual food), loads of photos from this weekend’s events and [...]
Well, it’s the end of the week (almost) and I just got through publishing three journal entries – one about the “ugly side” of urban homesteading, compost and urban bees.
There’s more where that came from so hopefully will have some more time tomorrow to get you all caught up – especially one about the meeting [...]
It’s that time again to empty out the simple cinder block compost bin that we dumped most of our green/yard and animal bedding waste in. It stands 5 bricks high and 5 wide. We use the lazy method of composting – dump, leave & empty. Yeah, we aren’t too big on the intricacies of composting – [...]
Spent the morning tallying up the harvest figures for March and considering we’d been gone for 6 days we didn’t do too bad.
March Tally
Produce: 265 lbs produce
Eggs (duck & chicken): 213
Care to join in our collective growing effort to grow and harvest 1 million pounds.
Folks are posting their March harvest tallies here {note you [...]
I said before April is shaping up to be an incredibly busy month. Although I promised to get back to musing from the urban homestead (have some really neat posting in the queue!) we have a few important happenings that we’d like to highlight.
I will be sending out a newsletter later today (hopefully) but in [...]
Well we are almost back to our regular scheduled posting here at LHITC after a brief bout with a mutant flu virus and flurry of extracurricular activity (highlighted in the entries below).
Have to mention one more thing before we continue that we did mosey on down to San Diego Thursday night to attend a screening [...]
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 because [...]
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 [...]
There’s a whole lotta entries in this here draft folder. You have been warned. There’s a slew of post waiting to be unleashed. Hang on to your mouses, er, meeses or whatever you call em. Don’t you miss one or you may just miss her ladyship’s…. well, you are just gonna have to find out [...]
Four entries this morning; however, there’s more where that came from but I am off to tend the animals.
Enjoy
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