Tag Archive for ‘urban homesteaders’
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.
HOMESTEADING IN THE CITY
A 4,000-square-foot back yard. Six thousand pounds of fruits and vegetables. Chickens, goats, bees. Urban homesteading done right.
FUTURE FEAR SBS DATELINE
Others are approaching the future differently, believing the biggest threats we’re facing are problems that we’ve caused ourselves. Meet the Dervaes family of so-called ‘urban homesteaders’. They’ve already adapted and are living self-sufficiently and almost entirely off-grid.But are they all being over cautious, or will the rest of us be under prepared?
SELF SUFFICIENCY IN THE HEART OF THE CITY
Meet a family who achieved what most people would think impossible in a big city. On less than 4,000 square feet of land in the heart of Pasadena, California, the Dervaes family gets all the food they need from their own backyard
THE FOUR PEEPERS AND HOW THEY GREW
The little peepers are sure growing fast! They graduated from the kiddie pool to the big one last week and are eating greens.
BABY QUACKERS!
Khaki Campbell (a heritage breed) babies have arrived on the urban homestead. Khaki Campbell’s are an excellent duck breed for the urban homestead. Medium size, they are relatively quite, good layers (they don’t go broody) and are consider land ducks so all the need is a shallow tray of water to be happy.
LIGHT ANOTHER CANDLE!
It’s our Blogiversary! Sharing our urban homesteading adventures started one hot July summer day back in 2001 with our first “journal entry.” A entry which would eventually leave tracks that trail blazed the modern urban homesteading movement
SIMPLY SELF RELIANT IN THE CITY
Here’s a NEW but “old” video shot in Fall 2007 and FINALLY online by a USC student working on a sustainable news piece
BRINGING THE REVOLUTION HOME
Urban Homesteading not just about bringing food, goods, services closer to home but making the home center your life. One of the steps backwards we have taken is bringing “socializing” home.
URBAN HOMESTEADING ON THE WEB
Here’s a sneak peek! We are almost ready for re-launch of the spiffy new Little Homestead in the City “Blook” (aka blog book) Jordanne could use a bit of encouragement as she’s on the homestretch and dealing with all the headaches that come with moving and coding. A couple of pieces of chocolate helped her [...]
