Homegrown Revolution (2008) is a film short that gives a brief introduction to the Dervaes Family’s urban homestead which they call “Path to Freedom.” On this tiny city lot, a beautiful and productive oasis was created, producing 6,000 lbs of food annually and is a model of urban sustainability.
Film premiers at the WILD & SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL (Jan 9-11, 2009)
http://www.wildandscenicfilmfestival.org
——About Path to Freedom——
Since the mid 1980s, members of the Dervaes family have steadily worked at transforming their ordinary city lot in Pasadena into a thriving organic micro farm that supplies them with food all year round. These eco-pioneers also run a successful home business providing their surplus produce to local restaurants. Through their adventures in growing and preserving their own food, installing a solar power system, home-brewing biodiesel for fuel, raising backyard farm animals, and learning back-to-basics skills, these modern-day pioneers have revived the old-fashioned spirit of self-reliance and resourcefulness.
Since 2001, their website has inspired hundreds of thousands to take steps towards a sustainable future and has generated a 21st century urban homestead movement.
visit their blog at http://www.urbanhomestead.org/journal
Duration : 0:1:54
Jules Dervaes and his three adult children all live and work together on their family farm in Pasadena, CA. They call themselves, eco-pioneers. They say its a homegrown revolution that’s taking place, a way for them to get back to a more natural, organic and better way of life. Their mission? To change the world one urban backyard at a time.
On this 3-week-long series of episodes of Healthy Living they visit the eco pioneers of the Dervaes family who reside in Pasadena California and try to maintain a healthy and earthfriendly lifestyle.
Another clip from my archives of Mel Barthalomew the host of Square Foot Gardening. We have now adopted his spacing methods with homemade earthboxes and the results have been great.
Greetings,
First garden update for our backyard garden on 10/4/08.
We went back to our old house and I took some video of the homesteading infrastructure that we built there including our two straw bale barns, pastures and our compost pile. The woods across the street had been eaten up by the urban sprawl monster.
Sue tells us about raising chickens in the city.
Me building my dog waste composter part 3.
Part 2 of me making my dog waste composter in my backyard.