Cindy - we loved your suggestions - and because we DON’T live on 9 acres in the country, we found they were plans anyone could adopt! Thanks for all the grean ideas!
Much oblige. I agree, the concept of urban homesteading is quickly becoming a generational meme.
Harriet
It’s great to see urbanites take control of their lives and make changes towards food security, self-sufficiency and independence. I know that reading the Dervaes website at pathtofreedom.com and urbanhomestead.org/journal has inspired me to look at things differently and start seeing what is possible where I am now. The family purportedly coined the word “urban homesteading” years ago (early on around 2001 I think because that’s about how long I have been reading their journal). This amazing family has literally “written the book” on urban homesteading by walking down the sustainable path and have become the model urban homestead for so many of us who want to follow in their steps. They have made me see (and now others ) that it is possible to do something without moving out of the city. It’s good to see that their longtime outreach efforts and inspirational lives have had made such an impact on the lives of others.
Check out their amazing journal at http://www.urbanhomestad.org/journal and be inspired to be the change by living the solution.
Thanks for mentioning my post. It’s funny that URBAN homesteading has been so popular on my site as I live on 9 acres in the country. Although I live in a rural area, I have found square foot and container gardening really works for me because I don’t have the time for a big garden. Or the equipment. I am currently hoping to involve the neighbor’s kids in their own square foot garden as they need the food.