Farms: Urban Agroecoloy: 6,000 lbs of food on 1/10th acre - Urban Homestead - Urban Permaculture
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Over 6,000 pounds of food per year, on 1/10 acre located just 15 minutes from downtown Los Angeles. The Dervaes family grows over 400 species of plants, 4,300 pounds of vegetable food, 900 chicken and 1,000 duck eggs, 25 lbs of honey, plus seasonal fruits throughout the year. From 1/10th of an acre, four people manage to get over 90% of their daily food and the family reports earnings of $20,000 per year (AFTER they eat from what is produced). This is done without the use of the expensive & destructive synthetic chemicals associated with industrial mono-cropping, while simultaneously improving the fertility and overall condition of the land being used to grow this food on. Scaled up to an acre, that would equal $200,000 per year! To follow the Dervaes and their Urban Homesteading activites, you can find them at http://urbanhomestead.org Urban and near-urban farming can be highly productive, causing whatever size of land you have to work with to produce with more abundance. It is time to solve hunger worldwide, through creating local food abundance.... Anyone can do it, once you learn how.
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you can hear the freeway in the background they're growing food under a cloud of smog
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Glad I have acreage cuz damn I hate stuffy farmlands. Damn I hate them, but they are GREAT for the environment.
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Most cities will not let you grow like this with their zoning codes.
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They do not allow rain collection where I live in west Ga. It's a watershed thing. And stupid to boot.
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Amazing! Beautiful family and such an inspiration. I aim to do this on Central Coast. Thanks for sharing!
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Inspiring, beautiful garden and organic lifestyle in sunny California, you really are living the life. Congratulations to you and your great family.
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too bad when your neighbours spray chemicals everywhere; your kids are too 'busy' to help around the house etc etc. This would not work for 99% of people and thus we are heading for extinction.
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Absolute fantastic.
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"As gardeners we can just sense something"....friggin crackpots
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Awesome!
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great job, thanks
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This is amazing.
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Asshole "chefs" out on the street with their whites on..
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well done
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If Homesteadville were a little further North I would move there in a heartbeat. I just can't take the LA culture or the LA heat.
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This is wonderful. Gee, I wish I lived close to you, so that I can learn.
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$12 a month electricity bill. ;'D