Tag Archive for ‘urban farmer’
Path To Freedom Cap
The guy love wearing caps — it’s a must in their urban farmer apparel. Um, that and camos. Farmer Justin digs camo’s and for a down and dirty guy camos make a lot of sense – you can wear dirty clothes and not look dirty (saves on laundry and water). Yep, Farmer J is one [...]
WANTED: URBAN HOMESTEADERS & URBAN FARMERS
A major tv media outlet is looking to: ” profile someone who is in the LA area (from San Diego to Santa Barbara) that is in process of transforming his/her life as a combined result of the economic conditions and who is taking the Dervaes’ message as the inspiration for that transformation. The more radical [...]
GYO! EVENT TONIGHT IN SANTA MONICA
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 [...]
Urban Farmers Plant Seeds Of Change
Dusting off the archives, just kidding. But, seriously, this CBS story was actually shot back in June 2008 and then a small snipped again in August 2008 when Mr Whittaker actually come to shoot his stand up walking in the garden sound bite, After 9 months and many false alarms, the piece FINALLY aired last [...]
WHAT’S UP
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! [...]
FREEDOM PLOTS
Plots of opportunity on urban eco-farms (The Natural Food Merchandiser) by Vicky Uhland The Dervaes family’s 1,500-square-foot vintage Craftsman bungalow, set on a standard city lot a mile from downtown Pasadena, Calif., is an unlikely homestead for a working farm. And yet Jules Dervaes and three of his children manage to grow 350 varieties of [...]
UNUSUAL EDIBLES
Here on the urban homestead one never knows what strange creatures will show up on the kitchen counter. This week’s unusual edible is a tiny little cucumber with spiky warts – not very appetizing! The urban farmers here tell me it’s called a West Indian Gerkin So these little spiky creatures not meant to be [...]
TUNE IN
Urban farmer and homesteader, Jules Dervaes, will be a guest this afternoon on Chicago’s RADIO ISLAM at 4:10 PDT. LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW ONLINE
