Tiny Urban Farm in the City Lives Green (ABC 7 News )
Sunday, December 27th, 2009 at
7:02 am
are either edible or used for other purposes. The garden supplies the family with their food year round. The family sells some of their greens to local restaurants. Doing this gives them money to buy solar panels and energy efficient appliances. The solar panels provide their home with power and they use a solar oven to cook food on sunny days. (Note: news segment mistakenly mentions the goats were producing milk. They ARE dairy goats and can produce milk, but like all mammals, they …
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I'm a 38 year-old electrical engineer from Southern California.
ya i wish it didnt take me 27 years to realize that, im goin to work on growing my own now.
Sustainability as it is, is just a political buzzword that has been cheapened in meaning. Sustainability in the real sense is life itself…it’s about living practically, it’s about economics, business, survival. Environment is just one factor. Once people realize that sustainability is not just “hippie” stuff but applies to every aspect of life, they’ll get more serious
It’s amusing I feel the same way. Every time when I’m down, I watch this family’s videos and it magically lifts my spirits up. I guess it’s the hope many of us have that one day we can live like them.
its hard to say if it will die out like a trend. i reckon the commercial version of “green” will die out, but for me that version was what got me interested in sustainability in the first place.. for many it is the partial lies that interest us, and eventually reveal the whole truth.
they are so freaking fantastic!
take care of the land and it will give back
its all about the soil and its health as a healthy one will give healthy plants and healthy produce.
pollute and abuse the land and the next generation will starve
Wow thousands of lbs of produce on less than a 1/4 of an acre?? My backyard is about that size and I can barely grow a couple tomatoes and corn! Damn birds and rabbits
Hopefully I can get to half of where this guy is!
fantastic news all go green if possible uk
I’m pleased every time this tale surface!
Many people will soon be doing the same thing as food prices climb… if they’re smart enough to realize; they might be able smoke some kinds of grass but they won’t use a mower on it and they damn sure can’t eat it lol GROW YOUR OWN FOOD!!! Prepare!
ur missing some key nutrient common to all grocery and corporate grown produce !!
pesticide residue !! ha ha
Permaculture rules!
in the future, we will all need to be farmers one way or another.
And that was not a negative comment towards anyone who practaces a dare shall I even slap a commercial trendly mark on it “green” lifestyle; I would hope this continues and not be forgotten about.
It’s incredible how the “trend” to go green has really been brought out as of late, as if all of a sudden after years and years of destruction Bono and Gore brought this to everyone’s attention as if that towering smoke stack that has been spouting pollution or your 2 hour commute was not an indicator years ago. I just hope it is not another world pass me by lifestyle like curing world hunger was. Really hard to tell out there with so many people that just follow styles.
This is how the world will be changed…one garden at a time with people taking things into their own hands.
Just watch out for “Homeland Security”. The powers that be do NOT want people independent of the “system”.
H.S can confiscate food, fertilizer, farm equipment etc… when it see’s fit.
We as a family like your website. Read G.K. Chesterton (a major influence on Ghandi and a brilliant thinker and writer)!
We as a culture must regain our own means of production (it has been stolen from us).Read G.K. Chesterton (it motivated Ghandi).
I am blessed to have been there, and it was a privilege to join in spreading the light.
Thank you for hosting my talk and I look forward to connecting further in the present, ripe time!
Rock ON! You are a bright beacon of hope.
Incredible, wonderful, fantastic people! Imagine if just 10% of the urban population were to do the same! Foreign produce in the U.S. might be a distant memory.
this is fantastic, the future i reckon. im doing the same thing in australia. well done
GOD BLESS YOU ALL!
That is really fantastic to see. Places like this are what is needed to spread permaculture to the mainstream.