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Profiles in urban homesteading

By Lindsay Curren | February 22, 2011

Sundari Kraft and Company

Across the Web yesterday, citified farmers united en masse to stake their claims to the age old art of urban homesteading. After reacting with horror and dismay over a move by the well-known Dervaes family of Pasadena, California, who issued an informational letter on their website—and to individual outlets—announcing that they had secured trademarks for the terms "urban … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: activism, community organizing, DIY, interview, local food, urban homesteading

Urban homesteeds, war horses with mulch

By Lindsay Curren | February 18, 2011

Take our poll: Should "urban homestead" be trademarked? The war horses are out and snorting a dust-up in the world of, uh...how shall I say this?...of, er, city-dwelling folks who garden and stuff. The brouhaha pits long-time (and apparently official) urban homesteaders the Dervaes family of Pasadena, California against...well, just about everybody else who would lay claim … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Transition Tagged With: DIY, farming, food, local economy, local food, urban homesteading

Homesteading for the rest of us

By Staff Reports | October 1, 2010

The Urban Homestead

BOOK REVIEW The Urban Homestead (Expanded & Revised Edition): Your Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in the Heart of the City (Process Self-reliance Series) By Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen Process Press, 2010, $17.95 I read gardening and back-to-the-land books like many people read romances or the sports pages, and lots of books just don’t cut it for me.  But this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: cities, DIY, homesteading, Oct 2010, relocalization, urban homesteading

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