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!
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
The FIVE winners, chosen by random.org, of our Homestead Blessings DVD giveaway are:
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 [...]
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!
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, folks are dropping [...]
I just wanted to let you know how much I love the calendar! It is exactly the inspiration I hoped it would be. Beautiful photographs and printed on that nice thick paper, really great quality. Thank you
-Elizabeth
LITTLE HOMESTEAD IN THE CITY 2010 CALENDAR
(11″ x 17″)
Looking for something to inspire you (and others) throughout 2010?
Buy [...]
Ok, we aren’t done having fun! This is what happens when you don’t have cable – uh, life!
First we had Fairlight modeling hats trying to drum up support, now we have her wielding the trusted tool of the urban homestead movement – a trowel (you can buy the very one here or here) We’ll make sure Fairlight [...]
Whoosh. That’s the sound of time flying by!
Where does the time go? One week, turns into two and I am already behind in putting up our weekly meals. Father time is going to need to slow down a bit.
Given that we are smack dab in the middle of winter and enjoying fresh [...]
Before we head up North (check out our itinerary of places we’ll be) here’s another pictorial dispatch from the urban homefront.
After the early cold snap, we’ve been enjoying some beautiful weather (yep, just in time for all those hoards of out of towners) Thanks to our beautiful weather, we probably have another slew of folks [...]
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
The Year of the Urban Homestead
My sis and I were talking about “the good ol’ days.” And one thing she brought up that I had forgotten was how we were constantly asked, [...]
Celebrating 10 Years Online 1999-2009
To commemorate our decade long online presence we’ve put together a pictorial urban homesteading calendar highlighting our favorite photos of the garden, animals, flowers, butterflies and more!
Don’t pass up this opportunity….
Support our growing online presence and outreach to the next level.
LITTLE HOMESTEAD IN THE CITY 2010 CALENDAR (11″ x 17″)
BUY [...]
We interrupt our regular posting schedule for some important news…..
Path to Freedom Urban Homestead needs your support. As the year comes to an end, please consider donating to help sustain our ever-expanding outreach and help us grow to the next level.
Our nonprofit is looking to raise some “grass roots” funds to help keep our webmistresses [...]
The highly acclaimed and anticipated HomeGrown – 21st Century Family Farm (by Robert Mcfalls) is now available for community screenings via : http://homegrown-film.com/host.html
Please note: (Since we are constantly asked this) —
Despite popular belief, we have not received any monetary benefits from HOMEGROWN . Zip, zero, nada, zilch, nothing. So, although we greatly appreciate [...]
Over the holiday weekend there was some issues with our online store Peddlers Wagon. Well, we are happy to inform you that all is in order and PW is open and ready for business.
Don’t forget you can stock up on supplies for your urban homestead and best off all the profits help support sites like [...]
Houston, we have lift off – well, almost… in just a few hours we’ll say “go flight!”
Sheesh, I don’t know how I kept the news from you this long but we have finally gotten around to making a few upgrades and improvements around here.
There she is (note screen cap above)
Yep, that’s right we did a [...]
image courtesy of Elements kitchen weekly enewsletter
Look what was in our email box today!
“We Love Freshly Picked Dervaes Greens… We make special salads featuring them, always lightly dressed so their fresh flavors are enhanced. The unique blend of mesclun greens (which might include anything from baby celery leaves to baby arugula or mizuna to kale) [...]
This week we have a few surplus veggies and fruit if you’d like to order.
heirloom tomatoes
italian summer squash (better than zucchini! )
and figs (green and purple)
If any of your local yokels are interested check out DerVaes Gardens and give us a call or email.
Thank you for supporting locally grown!
What: Film Screening of CONSUME THIS MOVIE! & Local, Vegetarian Potluck
When: Sunday, July 19 (5:30 PM – 9:00 PM)
Where: 626 Cypress Ave, Pasadena CA (see map)
Cost: $10 (children under 12 are free) A small entrance fee is required to help pay for facility rental, dvd screening fee, sound system, and purchase of eco friendly compostable dinnerware
Space [...]
Urban farm girl models the new FG tees in Farmer S’s cornfield
GROW THE FUTURE
We are trying to raise funds to keep our social network online and growing.
Thanks to those of you who purchased the newly released FG bumper stickers! Glad you like ‘em.
Thing is that we don’t have to funds (right now) to purchase [...]
You asked for ‘em now you got ‘em – bumper stickers to show your support for FreedomGardens.org not to mention proudly state that “I grow my own.”
FG is offering them for $6.00 (plus $1.00 S&H) FYI from this offer $3.00 goes towards supporting FreedomGardens.org and our “CHANGE FOR CHANGE” fund raising campaign.
Thank you for [...]
Our SECOND winner to receive a HOMESTEAD BLESSINGS 3 set DVD collection is Lisa Ann Kritzel – congratulations and thank you for your support!
Guess what! There’s ONE more sets to give away and we are only 25 more tickets away from announcing a third winner!!!
Here’s how to enter and help support LHITC at the [...]
First off, as LHITC speedily approaches it’s EIGHT blogiversary (of course we’ve been urban homesteading for over 15 prior to venturing online!) we want to thank those of you who donated and supported our continuing efforts over the years.
Our longtime readers, you’ve witness first hand our struggles, success and failures , our happy moments to [...]
What: Film Screening of ARE WE RUNNING DRY & Local, Vegetarian Potluck
When: Sunday, May 24 (5:30 PM – 9:00 PM)
Where: 626 Cypress Ave, Pasadena CA (see map)
Cost: $10 (children under 12 are free) A small entrance fee is require as it helps pay for facility rental, dvd screening fee, sound system, and purchase of eco [...]
Upgrades are happening as we speak to our homegrown social network – Freedom Gardens. FYI – the upgrades and database wrangling will be happening throughout the day so please be patient with us as we try to get the site back into ship shape.
However, lot of the bugs, glitches that were vexing and bothersome should [...]
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, [...]
Summertime garden
IN SEASON
By Deborah Geering
For the Journal-Constitution
Thursday, April 02, 2009
When I walked into the Urban Homesteading workshop at the Georgia Organics annual conference a couple of weeks ago, I was expecting a speaker who was —- well —- a little nutty. After all, what kind of person does it take to turn a 1/5-acre suburban [...]
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 [...]
There’s a fight on our hands. Our food and seed supply have been taken hostage and our only chance is a fertile resistance. A fight that will determine who owns the very essence of plant life on this planet. Our mission promote seed varieties that free of any corporate controls, seeds that are grown [...]
With nearly 400 request for the 2009 Freedom Seed list and just a couple handfuls of orders, we figured this dilemma called for a seed survey. Yes I am on the seed bend again and will till all the seeds are sold – that’s my mission and I am sticking to it.
Thanks to those of [...]
Jordanne hangs out with our dear knitting mentor
Catching up.
Tablefull of good food
Time for a bit of music
… and even some knitting!
Get Togethers
Every month we take time to build community and keep in touch with friends.
On Saturday evening we hosted our monthly gathering. It’s a time when we open our home to friends and PTF supporters. A [...]
Many of our readers have really gotten into the monthly donation idea that I “wrote out loud” about. A few even asked if there was a simple and easy way to pledge their monthly support.
Now you can! Thanks to Pay Pal you can easily pledge to donate $1, $5 or $10 a month Remember all [...]
Winter sunflowers. That’s right we have a huge patch of self sown sunflowers that are in full bloom in January no less!
Garden in winter – assorted greens, garlic, broccoli, peas and onions.
A gorgeous head of broccoli.
Kumquats almost ripe. Though semi ripe, I just can’t wait and have been nibbling on them already! Enjoying the [...]
Americans continue to out-big-foot everyone else when it comes to consumption. Although only 5 percent of the global population, Americans are said to use more than one-quarter of the world’s energy. If everyone lived like North Americans, we’d need at least seven planets to support our lifestyles.
A new year is time for new resolutions and [...]
“The list” and checking it once, twice, three times….
2009 is just around the corner and we are hard at work – cramming in long hours and late nights. Spending every available moment working out details, etc so we can announce and launch some new projects that I’ve hinted about.
Over the years PTF has grown from [...]
The urban homestead was host to yet another gathering. One of our monthly gatherings where we invite some friends, supporters and musicians to our home for a potluck (the plates, cups you see in the photos are made from sugarcane and compostable) and impromptu jam session afterwards.
This time around guests came from far and wide [...]
On Dec 18th, 9 years ago, Path to Freedom emerged on the Internet scene with a campaign to reunite father and son.
The site was influential in spearheading the campaign and featured on MSNBC, CNN, GRANMA and many, many other print media outlets all over the world.
In 2000, after four months of tireless campaigns, petitions (collecting [...]
This is one of those eclectic postings, lots of thoughts and stories all rolled into one.
Sorta like a jumbled post… you’ve been warned.
An easy up and salvaged canvas curtains protect the last two beds of tomatoes. Looks like a circus tent!
Protecting the crops with tarps and row covers
First Frost
The storm blew out late Wednesday night [...]
Me yammering. Poor guy. See how much food is on my plate compared to his
Jordanne, who loves music, chats with Mr Mauser, one of the composers.
Farmer D chats with an old friend and used to be neighbor
Justin talks farming with a fellow farmer. Hmmm, wonder if there were any gardening secrets revealved. Yeah, like they [...]
The winner of our second raffle ticket is A Lucas. Congrats, you just won a chance to see HomeGrown this Saturday( Dec 6th) with producer director Robert Mcfalls and the entire Dervaes family.
If you haven’t already entered, there’s only a few days left. Don’t hesitate to enter, better still you are supporting PTF at the [...]
We have our first raffle ticket winner!
So far we have had 15 raffle tickets “sold” meaning that tonight we can draw one ticket out of the first ten.
And the lucky winner of our first raffle round is J Burleigh
It’s not too late to enter! The more people enter the more tickets we can draw!
For only [...]
Hey Fairlight going shopping? Or are you just showing off how hip you are that you bring your own bag.
“What me shopping?” “Why would I need to go shopping? I got people here to do everything for me.”
“What I really want is another bag with those tasty dried sycamore leaves”
Yum, another bag full of tasty [...]
We received word from producer/director Robert McFalls that he will be holding private screening of the much anticipated documentary, HomeGrown, at a private residence here in Los Angeles on the evening of December 6th.
This is an opportunity for our friends and supporters to meet the producer and subjects of the film.
PTF is offering you a [...]
The urban bike advocates C.I.C.L.E and PTF urban homesteading advocates celebrate the harvest season at San Pascual Park yesterday (with special musical appearance by Triple Chicken Foot).
A huge thank you to our wonderful volunteers who outstanding efforts and made this afternoon such a pleasant one.
Also thanks to Armstrong’s Nursery, Whole Food Arroyo Parkway, Europane, Kaldi’s, [...]
Poster courtesy of CICLE.org
PTF will be out & about the month of November spreading inspiration and hope.
There’s a flurry of activity before everyone goes into winter hiberanation so get out your calendar’s and mark these dates!
Nov 2 – Green Summit – Leap Frog Into a Sustainable Future, Pasadena City College (10 am – 1 pm) Path to [...]
