Tag Archive for ‘the urban homestead’
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.
NEW SHOES!
Our mantra “make do, use up and wear it out” on the urban homestead is serious business. Any item we use has to be ratted and tattered before it gets replaced.
CLUTTER
“A place for everything and everything in its place.” As I’ve said many times before, one of the hardest challenges on an urban homestead is storage and organization.
JANUARY 2011 HARVEST TALLY
Here we are again, a new year and a new tally. After last years record breaking harvest of over 3 1/2 tons ( 7,000 pounds ) of produce, will be interesting to see what this year will bring. And as any farmer knows it all depends on the weather and keeping the plants healthy to ward off disease and bag bugs.
STORAGE FOR STORES
When you start living a more simple, self sufficient how is that you actually accumulate MORE stuff? It’s true and a simple fact. Living a simple life, is in fact not simple. If you make food and goods from scratch you need all store all those supplies somewhere.
LOW IMPACT KITCHEN: MORTAR & PESTLE
We have a new low tech kitchen gadget at our unplugged kitchen here on the urban homestead – a Mexican mortar & pestle or ‘Molcajete y Tejolote’
ANOTHER ROUND
of snapshots from the Urban Homestead. Don’t forget to tune in to KCET, So Cal Connected tonight, there’s going be a segment on our urban homestead
Also, hope to see many of you on Sunday at the Free Urban Homesteading event in Palm Springs The whole family will be there to answer all your questions.
AROUND THE URBAN HOMESTEAD
Living in Southern California, there’s not really much down time for us homesteaders-farmers. Only one more month left in 2010 and already projects and plans are being hatched for 2011.
KCET FEATURES THE URBAN HOMESTEAD
Our first appearance on the local PBS station KCET was in 2003 which featured a little blurb about our garden. We’re back!
Val Zavala visits the urban homestead and this segment will be featured So Cal Connected and air
