Tag Archive for ‘self sufficiency’
SIGNS OF THE TIME
Telling time without a watch is just a few digits away. You’re stranded in urban wilderness, concrete jungle that is LA and it’s getting late in the day. You got to get home to put those chickens up before the possums and coons come out but you aren’t sure how many daylight hours are left.
JOURNEY REFLECTIONS
While we re-organize for the new PTF site (with more information and better navigation), we thought it neat to have a “journey timeline” for readers to get a sense of where we came from and how this urban homestead project came about. The journey for our family has been one of getting back to basics, [...]
PATH TO FREEDOM
Fairlight playfully pulls on Blackberry fur – come down off of the chair! independence [noun] definition: 1. freedom from control or influence of another or others Dervaes farm’s quixotic ecological goal {SF GATE} On a small lot in suburban Pasadena, there lives a family of farmers who are walking the talk of green living. The [...]
WEB & PRINT FEATURES
Spring garden (btw, this is an undoctored photo… one of those RARE cloud filled blue sky days) Web Nods Urban Farm Revolution via Globally Green Living Little Homestead in the City: The Self-Sufficient Dervaes Family via Apartment Therapy Print Feature A GREEN REVOLUTION: ECO LIFESTYLE LESSONS (Pasadena Magazine April 2008 P. 87) Good Green Living [...]
