Turn Your Yard Into A Garden And Grow Your Own Food
More and more urban home owners and renters are turning to back and front yard farming. Why? Many are looking for a simpler life style and are concerned about the environment. They want to eat safe healthy food that isn't genetically modified and full of chemicals.
These urban framers have found the rewards far greater than the work involved to grow their own food. I can't help think and feel - These are exciting times to be living in. The things people are doing and accomplishing are amazing and inspiring.
What Is A Hyperlocavore?
"A hyperlocavore is a person who tries to eat as much food as locally as possible. Growing your own is as local as it gets!" - Liz McLellan
Suburban Farming In LA
Prosper And Dignity
"No race can prosper till it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem". - Booker T. Washington
Getting Started Growing Food
Back To Basic
"Part of Path to Freedom's mission is to educate individuals and families to integrate sustainable living practices and methods into their daily lives. Our focus is on: organic gardening, permaculture, solar cooking, composting and other back-to-basic, sustainable technologies and practices relating to the home environment". - Jules Dervaes
City Chickens
Path to Freedom - City Chickens
February 2007 - Backyard poultry enthusiast & urban homesteader, Jordanne Dervaes talks about raising chickens in the city. Guest staring 'Miss Clementime' a bantam black cochin. Urban pioneer, Jordanne, lives on a revolutionary urban homestead in Pasadena with her family and menagerie of animals (chickens, goats and ducks) For more about their revolutionary urban homestead project urban sustainable living and homesteading check out their website at www.PathtoFreedom.com [Footage courtesy of Larry Frank of LPG Productions a pitch tape for Hallmark Channel's 'New Morning']
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Important Service
"I know of no pursuit in which more real and important service can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals and other branches of a husbandman's cares" - George Washington
Community Egg Co-op
Community Egg Co-op
This is a story about a community egg cooperative formed by a group of volunteers, bringing chickens to a working urban farm, and managing the production of eggs for themselves and a local CSA. To see more stories, get recipes, and links to additional resources, go to: http://cookingupastory.com/
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What Is Yard Sharing?
Yard sharing: When two or more people join together and share resources to plant a garden. One person may have the yard, one has the tools, another the ability and knowledge. The idea is to plant a vegetable garden together and share the results.
Interview with @hyperlocavore
Interview with @hyperlocavore
A beautiful setting for an interview with Liz McLellan, a hyperlocavore and yardsharing advocate. What is a hyperlocavore? What is yardsharing and how can you get started with it? Watch the interview and find out. Follow Liz on Twitter at http://twitter.com/hyperlocavore. Distributed by Tubemogul.
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Yard Sharing Community
Grow Your Own Food Together
Liz McLellan, has organized a Free Yard Sharing Community where she helps like minded people wanting to plant a group garden find each other. She also offers free ongoing support to help organize the groups. One place you can find Liz is at: http://ow.ly/3Wpy
Wall Street Journal Clip: Mini Farming, In Your Front Yard
WSJ clip: suburban farming, an idea whose time has come
People better start thinking about growing at least some of their own food. With food prices rising and shortages and food riots occurring globally, it is time to start becoming more self-sufficient, growing our food locally. Visit this website for inspiration on this topic: www.pathtofreedom.com
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Labor And Live On
"The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on...The small landowners are the most precious part of a state". - Thomas Jefferson
How Much Food Can I Grow Around My House?
How Much Food Can I Grow Around My House?
Peak Moment 87: In summer 2006 Judy Alexander embarked on an experiment to see how much food she could grow, and how many neighbors could benefit, from the garden around her house. Check out her homegrown rainwater collection and irrigation system - watering her 60+ edible crops. Meet the bees, the chickens and the worms. And catch her joy in producing so much food for so little effort.
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Founders Of Civilization
"Where tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization". - Daniel Webster
Backyard Farmer
Your Backyard Farmer- Urban Farming at its Best!
www.yourbackyardfarmer.com Donna and Robyn created Your Backyard Farmer in the Portland, Oregon area. They have an innovative approach to Community Supported Agriculture through urban backyard farming.
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The First Farmer
"The first farmer was the first man and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land". - Ralph Waldo Emerson
An Experiment In Back Yard Sustainability
An Experiment in Back Yard Sustainability
Peak Moment 51: Tour Scott McGuire's "White Sage Gardens" in the back yard of his rental home -- a demonstration site for suburban sustainability. He ponders, "How might a household produce and preserve a significant portion of its own food supply?" Composting, a water-conserving greenhouse, and seed-saving are all facets of this beautiful work in progress. [http://www.cocreativeliving.com]
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Doesn't Harm The Environment
"It's more than just high quality food for the family table; it's growing the food in a way that does not harm the environment". - Robert Patterson
Grow Your Own Food
Liz McLellan Is On Twitter
http://twitter.com/hyperlocavore
What does Liz tweet about? Mostly yard sharing, gardening and community building. She is also interested in creating a more positive future. Liz likes to meet new people and can be found socializing in the evenings on Twitter.
You'll find Liz here: http://twitter.com/hyperlocavore
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Is Growing Your Own Food A Fad?
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- Liz McLellan Liz McLellan Oct 12, 2009 @ 11:22 pm
- Wow, thank you for the mentions!
For me growing stuff is great physical exercise... I hate working out on a treadmill - it seems like such a waste of time..at least with gardening I am getting something useful done! Plus you cannot beat the taste of food that came from 10 feet away!
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- shajo shajo Aug 19, 2009 @ 9:35 am
- Oh I love growing my own food! I especially love homegrown tomatoes! Great lens!
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- 0ctavias0fferings 0ctavias0fferings Aug 19, 2009 @ 3:17 am
- It's amazing what you can grow even in window-boxes. 5* and a sprinkling of Angel Dust for an excellent lens.
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- ajgodinho ajgodinho Aug 18, 2009 @ 8:53 pm
- No, I don't think it's a fad and it's here to stay. More and more people are choosing to take that route and it's encouraging to see. This is a fast-food generation and it's important that people get more serious about eating right and taking care of the environment. You did a great job in presenting this important topic - lensrolling to my Proper Nutrition, Diet, Exercise & Your Immune System lens.
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