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...]
Urban homesteeds, war horses with mulch
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...]
Homesteading for the rest of us
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...]