Tag Archive for ‘video’
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!
GOODBYE OL’ CLEM 2002-2010
The matriarch of our homestead and poster chicken for urban homesteading, Miss Clementine, quickly and peacefully passed away in Jordanne’s arms on Friday afternoon.
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?
NATURAL BEAUTY
For centuries every culture has been on a question for beauty but these days our obsession with beauty is proving not only to be toxic and deadly. Every year millions of woman get sick or die because of what they are putting on their skin and hair.
BACKYARD BARNYARD
Anaïs and Jordanne Dervaes give a video tour of the Pasadena homestead where they keep chickens, ducks, and goats (VIEW ONLINE VIDEO FEATURE running time 4:00 minutes) LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE ONLINE EXTRA By Wendy Witherspoon LAmag.com, October 19, 2009 If you’ve ever looked at your pet dog (especially after “cleaning up” the lawn) and wondered [...]
THE DARK SIDE OF BACKYARD POULTRY
One of the chicks that we hatched back in 2007 It’s great to see more and more folks these days turning towards raising poultry and other small stock in their backyards as the trend towards eating closer to home spreads across the nation. But there’s a dark side to this trend and it’s finally been [...]
SUNDANCE CLIPS
These are just a few “tasty morsels” (clips/webisodes), if there’s a chance to view the entire “meal” (25 minute segment) of BIG IDEAS FOR A SMALL PLANET that would be nice. Did anyone tape it? UPDATE: Miss it? Just heard that the episode will rerun on Sunday
PTF/FG ON BRAZILIAN TV
Our segment comes about 10-12 minutes into the program and does a nice job at featuring the Freedom Garden/Farmer site and homegrown movement Note: interviews with Farmer D and Urban Heidi are in English with Portuguese subtitles.
BIODIESEL
Some more incoming links from Sunday We aren’t one to laud biodiesel as the answer to the fuel crisis (two wheels, two feet or four would suffice), we look at it as a band-aid solution. Once every one to two months Justin brews a 30 gallon batch (using recycled veggie oil from one of our [...]
