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Living a self-sufficient lifestyle in an urban setting.

Introduction: Living Free

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The Path Project

~ Current Projects ~

Gardening �

Vermicomposting

Attracting Wildlife

Wildlife Habitat

Three Sisters Garden

Urban Gardening

Urban Permaculture

Off the Grid �

Solar Food Dryer

Solar Power NEW

Simple Living �

Raising Chickens

Making A Living

Monthly Shopping

Caring for Rabbits

Raising Ducks NEW

~ 'To Do' List ~

As time & funds permit

grape arbor

raising ducks

grey water reed bed

solar shower

composting toilet

~~rabbits and hutch~~

rainwater collecting

growing mushrooms

dwarf fruit trees

trellis passion fruits

bicycle wheel trellises

grey water reclamation

solar panels

permeable paving

tear out driveway

tear out concrete patio

convert to bio-diesel

urban beekeeping

reduce waste & water

conserve energy

expand vermiculture

sew organic clothing

conscious consumer

re-vamp website

small pond

pedal power

adobe oven/horno

spinning

candle making

soap making

sell seeds/plants

re-do chicken coop/area

outreach program

host workshops

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Small Is Beautiful...

Here we present a self-sufficiency resource center and on-going report on our urban "homestead" which we have been recently developing. Since our aim is to break free from the system, we have taken some small steps in our yard and lifestyle to make it happen. Great goals, however, come at a great price. Thus, it has been a real, sweaty struggle to learn a new way of living. Things don't turn out the way we want them to. The pace is so painfully slow and, most of the time, after moving three steps forward, we end up going back two.

By showing what we are doing locally at our home in Pasadena, California we hope to prove that Living Free is possible one day. Until that time, we intend to offer encouragement with this website to all who desire to join us along the way, along the path to freedom.

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Urban Homestead Projects & Resources

Thinking globally, by acting locally...

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GARDENING

To forget how to dig the earth

and tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

~ Gandhi ~

Projects: Urban Gardening

� Urban Gardening: Facts & Stats - Harvest updates

� Vermicomposting - How to compost with worms

� Seed Balls - Making and using seed balls

� Urban Wildlife - How to attract wildlife and beneficial insects

� Seed Saving - How to save seeds from your garden

� Growing Native - How to plant a 'three sister' bed

� Urban Gardening - Resistance is fertile

� Seed & Plant Trading List - Let's make a deal!

� A Fellow Traveler - Spotlight on a compost guru

� Urban Permaculture - The problem is the solution NEW

Charts & References

2001-2002

� Year Report '01: Plant Listing - Varieties grown

� Yield Chart '01 - How much we harvested

� Harvest Graph - Total annual harvest

DID YOU KNOW?

A typical morsel of food

journeys 1,400 miles before

it reaches a mouth.

� New Plants - Added in 2002

� Plant Listing for 2002 - Over 300 plant varieties and counting

� Water Usage - Gallons of water used NEW

� Harvest Goal & Progress - Check up on how we are doing NEW

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OFF THE GRID

There are people in search of a new lifestyle, who seek to return to certain basic truths about man and his world: I call them homecomers.

~ E.F. Schumacher ~

Projects: Self-Sufficiency in the City

� Cooking w/the Sun - Homemade solar oven

� Drying Food w/the Sun - Homemade solar dehydrator

Charts & References

2002

� Self Sufficiency Rating Chart - How we're doing

DID YOU KNOW?

Since 1950, Americans alone have used more resources

than everyone who ever

lived before them.

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SIMPLE LIVING

The soul of our quest for the simple life...

reflects a need to re-establish control of our lives.

~ Peter Fossel ~

Projects: Homesteading & Voluntary Simplicity

� Chickens in the City

� Making A Living

� Monthly Grocery Shopping

� Caring For Rabbits

� Backyard Ducks NEW

Charts & References

2002

� Egg Harvest - Chart of chicken egg production NEW

� Shopping List - One month shopping list

� Self Sufficiency Rating Chart - How we're doing

DID YOU KNOW?

The typical American views roughly 37,822 commercials per year, or roughly 100 ads per day

This site and our urban homestead is a work in progress.

Please check back often for updates. Thanks for stopping by!

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