• VISITORS

    Posted by Anais Dervaes on January 25, 2008

    Hospitality Day Yesterday, Thursday, was quite a day here on the urban homestead. SmartCar visits the urban homestead First we had a representative of the German automaker, SmartCar…


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  • HOMESTEAD HAPPENINGS

    Posted by Anais Dervaes on January 14, 2008

    Backyard “winter” garden In Search of Good Food A documentary film tour of California’s emerging sustainable food systems write about their LA experience and stop at a


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  • A LOOK AHEAD

    Posted by Anais Dervaes on December 18, 2007

    Another Busy Week Posting will be sporadic these next few weeks; however, I will try to keep writing first hand reports from the urban homestead.   There’s an egg story…


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  • PIONEERING A SUSTAINBLE LIFE

    Posted by Anais Dervaes on December 5, 2007

    Urban home, tranformed to urban homestead (note: no aritificial photo manipulation) Urban Homestead The seeds of living off the land and homesteading for Jules Dervaes started back in the…


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  • ON THE HOMEFRONT

    Posted by Anais Dervaes on November 28, 2007

    New digs Organized Chaos Every year at this time chaos erupts here on the urban homestead as a new year winds down and another looms over the horizon. A…


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  • PTF GOES HOLLYWOOD (not quite)

    Posted by Anais Dervaes on November 7, 2007

    :: NOTE :: After four days (Nov 3-6) of unexpected technical web difficulties and some serious online incommunicado I will be posting all those entries starting from…


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  • AUTUMN DELIGHTS

    Posted by Anais Dervaes on October 31, 2007

    Autumn Tomatoes The late summer batch of tomatoes are producing extending summer’s bounty into the fall season. What sort of lingering summer veggies are other fellow urban homesteaders…


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  • SUMMER’S HERE AGAIN

    Posted by Anais Dervaes on October 22, 2007

    Guerrilla farmer in an urban jungle Urban Camo If you have noticed, in many photos taken of urban farmer, Justin, he’s wearing camouflaged pants and shirts.   It’s not…


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  • SUMMER'S HERE AGAIN

    Posted by Anais Dervaes on October 22, 2007

    Guerrilla farmer in an urban jungle Urban Camo If you have noticed, in many photos taken of urban farmer, Justin, he’s wearing camouflaged pants and shirts.   It’s not…


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  • ROADMAP TO SUSTAINABILITY

    Posted by Anais Dervaes on October 9, 2007

    Front yard in October, 66′ x 132′ urban, edible eden Bare Necessities…. the simple bare necessitiesI ‘ll stop before I have our readers, humming the catchy tune from Disney’s…


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