Garden Activism. Composting. Plant Structures/containers. Growing. Backyard Farmers: 25 Websites You Should Be Reading. 50 Ways to Never Waste Food Again - Planet Green. Practical self sufficiency through food skills. How to Make a Seed Card.
The 10 Elements of Our Urban Homestead. Jules Dervaes sold his 10 acres in rural Florida and purchased this "fixer-upper" home in the mid-1980s at a reasonable price by California standards.
Sorely neglected by years of being occupied by renting tenants and located in a low income neighborhood, the home was in bad need of repair (and, heck... we ain’t kiddin‘... it still does in most places! Just sayin’) and the yard was a combination of broken asphalt, large concreted areas, weeds, Bermuda grass, chalky "adobe-type" soil, and a few rather pathetic “landscape” plants. before and after photos You will not find movie stars on this set, but we do have our own cast of characters and enough daily dramas here on the Urban Homestead model to be more than interesting. And it's a REAL reality show, not Hollywood manufactured and scripted.