Tag Archive for ‘support’

THE LITTLE FILM THAT COULD

After two years of being screened at many film festivals and community viewings throughout the world, we have published (in its entirety) our award winning short film Homegrown Revolution for free viewing on YouTube.

Urban Homestead’s 2010 Year in Review

I know it’s a bit overdue (thanks to busy & rough start to the new year) and, honestly, I was putting it off because I am having a really BAD case of writer’s block…. but here it goes!

BENEFIT CONCERT

We were happily surprised and extremely grateful to the The Ridgewood Boys of Kentucky who are holding benefit concert for Path to Freedom’s growing outreach.

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.

ROUND UP

With all that’s going on, figure it’s high time I sit and collect all the newbytes and articles that ya’ll may have missed this week. On Fridays I am going to try to make it a weekly habit to post some highlights. Git along little dawgies!

REAL FOOD, REAL SIMPLE: URBAN HOMESTEAD MEALS

The summer harvest is now just started to pour in and what a blessings. We are so thankful for the bounty that the earth provides. This week we revisited and revived our 100 Foot Diet Challenge

GIVEAWAY WINNERS

The FIVE winners, chosen by random.org, of our Homestead Blessings DVD giveaway are:

GIVEAWAY!

So how are you liking the new blog and boat load of new posts to boot (12 new entries in 18 days!)? We took a bit of a break after the BIG revamp, but we are right back working on more improvements as we speak. There’s much more to come, but in the meantime, we’d [...]

NEW URBAN HOMESTEADING BLOOK!

Whew, we did it! Took us longer than we expected but it was well worth the wait and as about as close as an Amish barn raising experience we city folks get!

URBAN FARMSTAND

Front porch farm stand Getting to know your farmer and where your food comes from. Our urban farming foray’s started back in the early 1990′s when Farmer D smother the front lawn to grow food. After 15 plus years supplying local restaurants we are now expanding our homegrown produce sales to be csa-like. These days, [...]