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 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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If the trucks ever stop getting food to the supermarkets or if the supermarkets shut down for what ever reason, these people won't be affected. This is not just a hobby, it is survival. Thumbs up for you.
As soon as the public water goes, they’re doomed.
With a pump and solar, they’d be screwed as soon as it broke.
There is no such thing as a first world self sufficient lifestyle.
Except everyone who relied so heavily on supermarkets will become desperately hungry and go looking for food. That's when it will affect families like this one.
This happens during the lockdown and i learn to plant all container junks with veggies and spices (from the Philippines)
Gen li you can drill your own water well. Like people literally used to only build if they had water close from a stream or from a well. You can still be self sufficient in first world countries. You just have to be careful where ya live. I certainly wouldn’t want to live in Cali due to their politics, debt, and massive population numbers. I guess there’s som rural areas, but politicians in Cali taking water from farmers to flush out human waste in the Bay Area just shows you how corrupt politically things are. Farmers are being forced out of business which is sad considering they have enough water and reservoirs if politically it was all well used and managed.
That dad is awesome....I love how he CARES about what he puts in his children's mouths
I grew up helping with a 1/4 acre garden and canning 400 jars plus raising 100 chickens that we put into the freezer each summer. It was hard work but some of the greatest lessons in life I ever learned. The savings was astronomical.
Last year my husband, two young boys and I purchased a wonderful home with 3 acres of black, fertile soil. We're starting the homestead process slowly but surely.
Thank you for the wonderful advice! You are inspiring!
This guy is the man....making $20k and growing virtually all his family's food in the backyard.....talk about epic meal time.
Yea, that $20k is extra after they feed themselves. They have fruits, veg, meats and eggs. Talk about self sufficiency.
I believe they live as vegetarians, the goats (their pets) and the chickens provide eggs and fertilizer, a BIG part of permiculture, eating the fertilizer-s is not part of their plan. Notice nothing on their plates were their pets?
Marcella Smith I think you are right; that doesn't invalidate the fact that they COULD be producing and having meat in the same scale of system if they chose to. You just have to make sure that your animals are healthy and produce more to replace themselves.
Marcella Smith
Eggs aren't vegetables! They also probably milk their goats.
jon smith Vegetarians actually do eat eggs and milk-products. Vegans are the ones who exclude those.
I'm not only thoroughly impressed but in love with this family. Their father had a wonderful idea that was revolutionary. Sending you all much love, may you all continue to prosper.
Just learned that Mr. Dervae passed away last year.
My utter condolences to his family. Oh my goodness.
We live on a 2 acre homestead in the country. We raise chickens, ducks, rabbits, and honeybees. We also have a rain water collection system and a small solar system to supplement our grid usage. We are not 10% as successful as you are at self sufficiency! But you have inspired me to try to do better. We CAN do this....and we WILL!
agriculture is a really complex science and I think we are only at the beginning of it. thankfully, information is easy to obtain now with the internet. good luck.
+goku I am fumbling my way around learning to garden from seeds, making my own compost, dripper systems and many other practices. Damn do I feel like I have a long way to go before I am remotely good at this but it is a fun journey. I think the internet is an incredible way to learn without making mistakes yourself but always keeping notes is the only way to make that worthwhile.
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these people are successful but having your own solar system is pretty stellar 😂
Wow, their OWN backyard??? I've grown vegetables in my small backyard my whole life. It's strange how people think it's impossible to grow food by yourself anymore
Come to Romania and lets do the homestead village.We are one of the few countries in Europe with still a very fertile soil plus organic on top. I have many years living abroad but in few years I would like to return home and start something like you have. I have just started my own little backyard gadening since me, wife and baby are vegans and living in the UK at the moment, organic products are very expensive and almost everything is imported. Hope this will help me to learn and improve myself when it comes to gardening and growing your own things. You are a dream family in a magic place. Thank you to this channel for showing us such an amazing thing.
You're so lucky
I stumbled upon this video years ago and it greatly inspired me. That very year I started growing vegetables on my urban balcony, here in Toronto. I've been doing that for 3 years now, growing my haul to 7 tomato indeterminant tomato plants, carrots, beets, lettuce, spinach, pak choy, bush beans, basil, cilantro and chives. Now I'm about to move into a house and my backyard will soon be converted into something like this, zoning permitting. Of course my location will necessitate a greenhouse. I can't wait to get started. Now if I can only talk my husband into letting me buy a goat....
+Kimberly Cabanas I would love to live that lifestyle,the cooler weather ,short summers and my trees stopped my gardening,i still grow tomatoes and cucumbers in large planters and have been composting most everything from my kitchen and yard since 1984..maybe i will get back into growing more after i retire..Great luck to your dream..
Hello fellow Torontonian.
Window boxes work well too.
Good luck
Just trade him in for a goat
This is so inspiring, it makes me tear up a bit.
Get a tray, some soil and grow some microgreens... and you're on your way..
Tara Rose Astrologer me too
GOOD Example! Congratulations! We need MORE People like You.
These guys are my heroes. This is what we all need to be doing.
Yes! Another victory for moral living! I hope more people follow their example.
Leif Marco Moncho There's nothing moral about living off the grid.
You're using that word wrong. =P
*****
Moral: "concerned with the principles of right and wrong behaviour."
It was used perfectly if you ask me. People are concerned with the current system which is why they go off grid.
Clearly you're naive to the impact of the intensive farming systems which the supermarkets rely on to get their produce to meet the demand for the greedy, over consuming population.
anonymous I'm not naive, but to suggest not using a supermarket (or other 'on the gride' services) is good leads to the conclusion that using a supermarket is bad.
Supermarkets aren't the ones producing food, and farmers are only producing products the way they do because.
A: If they didn't we'd all starve, there aren't enough farmers making enough food to feed everyone.
B: Because it's the most efficient way they can produce goods.
Just because something is better for the planet doesn't mean it's inherently good.
Killing 90% of the population would immediately reduce the impact of pollution on the planet- however this is evil.
Stopping people from having children would be better for the planet, however this is again, evil.
Blindly attaching a morality of "good" to someones life choice (not using a supermarket) can't work, anymore then saying someone who uses a car to get to work is "bad" and someone who rides a bike to work is "good"
You've attached a concept of morality to a personal choice that has nothing to do with morality. If I chose to make my own beer, because it's cheaper, do I magically become a "good" person? No, I'm just smarter.
*****
Well morals all comes down to opinion as much as anything. A 'moral' thing to do in one person's opinion may not be considered 'moral' in another's.
Supermarkets are not producing the food correct, however, they have a responsibility to check the quality of their food (which they fail to do, as the recent horse meat scandal has shown). The market is becoming monopolised, small business owners are being forced out of the market by these supermarkets. They sell us processed food which is not the least bit good for us. They sell us radiated vegetables which have been shipped from a foreign nation as oppose to sourcing food locally because their profit margins are bigger. And so yes, in my opinion, they are immoral and bad, but that is just my opinion.
Onto your other points, we produce more than another food and have more than enough land to continue producing more food, IF, and that is a big if, we reduce our waste. This brings me straight back to the supermarkets; look at the waste which they produce each and everyday. Their staff are not even allowed to take the bakery goods which are thrown out everyday. So once again, in my opinion, they are to be avoided.
Secondly, still on your first point, there are only people starving because developed nations (more notable examples being the UK and US), consume far more than they should and produce an incredible amount of waste. Because of this excessive demand, these large corporations exploit the less developed nations which are starving, who have no choice but to sell their food crops to make a pittance of a wage.
The point about it being the 'most efficient way they can produce goods' is not entirely true. These intensive farming systems offer nothing back to the soil and are actually depleting and eroding it of all its nutrients and minerals which is why they have to increase their fertiliser use constantly. Desertification is almost definitely brought upon us by man. We are experiencing more and more droughts which could be directly correlated to our industrialisation, expansion of infrastructure and the likes of deforestation.
However, a more efficient way of producing food would be to reduce the land one farm manages. The larger the farm, the smaller the yield per acre which is achieved, and this has been proven time and time again. Yet the government continues to encourage farmers to take on larger plots which they cannot manage properly and have to use artificial pesticides, fertilisers and herbicides, which are not properly tested for their impacts to the environment. Even when they are found to be harmful, the corporations are so large and corrupt, they are able to create false campaigns and suppress public opinion.
But anyway, as I said earlier, morals all come down to the opinion of the individual.
I am in the process of starting this. My little garden is about to expand as I am retired and 59. No one wants to hire a 59 years old, no matter how well educated you are. So, this is the perfect option for me.
How could anyone give this a thumbs down???
To me, the very BEST video in the history of UA-cam. Congratulations and keep teaching good stuff to us. Thank you for standing for what is right and good for life.
This is a prime reason we all need to be aware of history. My grandfather did all of this on a city lot up until the late 1970s. He also made many barrels of his own wine. All he did came from the old country. This was a way of life within the lifetimes of many many people living today. Learn from your elders. We did and today we produce the most natural man-made waters on the planet..... thanks in part to the old ways of my Grandfather.
cool mine too ! pa grew whenever he could ! even in bucket gardens ...... 5 lb. tomatoes out of them ….and even bigger beefsteak variety's!
That's a Family! What we could All accomplish if we worked together! The system has all all in a Head lock,, Break Free!
Your desire to establish Homesteadville is noble. A small California town had the same idea during WW2. Garden Farms, a few miles south of Atascadero, was started as a place where people could purchase a parcel of land to build both a home and a large garden or poultry operation. The government was going to purchase the bounty. However, Uncle Sam never signed on the dotted line and Garden Farms families lost their plans to profit from the war and feed the troops.
I believe there were turkeys, chickens (for eggs and meat), orchards, and vegetable plots developed. The community is still there, right next to Santa Margarita.
I started my self to do this. First on the terrase, on the containers; then in a small garden (50mp2). The weekly spending budget at grocery is reduced, I have more fresh and quality vegetables, condiments, and joy.
The extra producing is dry and canned.
The time spend is around 1-2 hours weekly.
For a quality wood, I do compost. Indeed, there are still polution, but the quality of the food has no comparing.
Ohhhh I SOOO wish I would have started doing this 10 years ago! I can only imagine how rewarding and freeing it must feel to be so self sufficient. Hats off to them...I'll definitely be checking out their website and trying to start my own garden next spring! Now if I can only get the kids to help me!!! LOL
I'm on a mission to be just like them!
+S.R. Hurst may the gods be with you
In the 1950's in California, everyone had fruit trees in their yards and we kids would play outside and eat outside constantly.. Too bad even that has gone out of style. Time to get back into that at home.
Water restrictions keep people from growing fruit in their yard now.
Water restrictions caused by DELIBERATE GOVERNMENT CREATED ARTIFICIAL SHORTAGES AND CRISES BY DELIBERATE WATER MISMANAGEMENT BY THE DNC DEMOCRATS IN ORDER TO TRANSFORM ALL CALIFORNIANS INTO DEPENDENT POLITICAL SERF-SLAVES IN THEIR PLANTATION POLITICS.
1:45 to 3:00 ua-cam.com/video/bhZRWRWkiIA/v-deo.html Stupid Californian DNC Democrat politicians do not know shit about water management. Either virtually ignorant or virtually deliberately ignoring wise advice to acknowledge that California is a state of ALTERNATING FLOODS AND DROUGHTS AND THUS REQUIRES A LOT OF CATCHMENT BASIN RESERVOIRS, IMPOUNDMENT DAMS, INFILTRATION BASINS, INFILTRATION SWALES, CATCHMENT INFILTRATION BASINS, ETC TO CAPTURE EVERY DROP OF FLOOD WATER TO PREVENT IT FROM BEING WASTEFULLY GOING INTO THE SEA.
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What is Primary Water? 1985 Interview with Dr. Stephan Riess calfotogal
Published on Jun 19, 2015
This is a very important interview of the late Dr. Stephan Riess from 1985 about primary water.
For more information, please visit the www.primarywaterinstitute.org.
TRANSCRIPTION OF YOU TUBE VIDEO: WHAT IS PRIMARY WATER? 1985 Interview with Dr. Stephan Riess
Titles: The Primary Water Institute and Primary WaterWorks Present
Dr. Stephen Riess on Primary Water
The Last Interview, September 22, 1985
With Dr. Wayne Weber and Ross Frazier
In Escondido, California
The term Primary Water was coined by the late Dr. Stephen Riess, the geophysicist who independently discovered its existence and pioneered its development, beginning in the 1930s until his death in December 1985.
“My discovery was put to a field test by locating and drilling many wells. The records to date from these tests is 70 producing wells out of 72 attempts, all drilled in hard rock, all located in distressed areas generally considered unproductive.” (Dr. Stephen
Riess, 1954)
Primary water is a little known renewable resource that originates deep within the earth. When conditions are right, oxygen combines with hydrogen to make new water.
This water is constantly being pushed up toward the surface under great pressure. The water finds its way towards the surface through fissures or faults. Depending on the geology, primary water can be accessed close to the surface, or even flow out as a
spring.
Primary water has never been a part of the hydrologic cycle until it finally arrives at the surface. Traditional hydrologic cycle water is finite and volumes fluctuate relative to available rain and snowmelt. Primary water is renewable and plentiful regardless of the
weather.
This priceless interview from 1985 of Dr. Stephen Riess is presented in its entirety regardless of camera movement and colorful language.
Ross Frazier: This is Escondido, Sunday the 22nd of September 1985 and we’re taking instruction from Dr. Stephen Riess, an eminent earth scientist at his home in Escondido, high on a rock promontory overlooking the valley and showing massive protrusions of granite boulders all around. Stephen Riess is a very controversial scientist and has extensive knowledge worldwide in the finding of water.
Turning to address Dr. Stephen Riess . . . Do you have any immediate finds in Escondido in the last three or four months?
Dr. Riess: Yes we’ve been successful in drilling some very good wells and it happens that both locations are on the highest parts in the county. A thousand feet higher than the pump stations for the water supply from the water resources department. And the cost of pumping it from there, these stations, the river water from Sacramento up into these reservoirs here is $93 an acre foot in power
bills and it is poor quality water. So the point now is that this water wells can produce the water for $20 pumping cost instead of $93 to lift it from the pipeline below up to the surface.
Ross Frazier: And with no carrying of silt or anything of that nature.
Dr. Riess: No. It’s clean water.
Ross Frazier: The water here is very pure water, isn’t it?
Dr. Riess: It’s exceptionally good. It’s usually about one-third of the mineral content of the prevailing Colorado River water.
Ross Frazier: This is because you’re extracting primary water from very deep.
Dr. Riess: This is because it is primary water obtained below the crust and is in the non-oxidizing zone.
Ross Frazier: So this is not being oxidized?
Dr. Riess: No.
Ross Frazier: And it is not picking up contaminants.
Dr. Riess: It does not dissolve or pick up any contaminants and therefore it is superior water. It does not need any more cleaning or pre-treatment for the distribution system.
Ross Frazier: And you don’t have any, or very little if any, radiation?
Dr. Riess: Well, there may be fast dissolving radon which is about one day lifetime in the water in the reservoir.
Ross Frazier: And radon will not be a really factor here.
Dr. Riess: No, it is no factor at all.
Ross Frazier: Because it’s decay is so rapid.
Dr. Riess: Right now. And in itself is not very serious.
Ross Frazier: It wouldn’t be anywhere near the contaminants that could be picked up as a result of surface testing of nuclear weapons.
Dr. Riess: Naturally, that is the point. When they are talking about claiming waters, bad waters, which are already bad at the origin from the faucet and then going to the industrial and whatever uses there are and then go through the sewage lines, the retreating is absolute insanity.
Ross Frazier: It is not necessary because . . .
Dr. Riess: It’s ridiculous. An article that I got in the paper here before me today is talking about treating two hundred million gallons of sewage for re-use. Now who in the Devil would want to use sewage water again?
Ross Frazier: It’s unnecessary.
Dr. Riess: Absolutely unnecessary.
The Vatic Project: EARTH-GENERATED WATER: A POTENTIAL ...
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Primary Water EXPLAINED - Why We DO NOT Have a Water Shortage
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What is Primary Water? 1985 Interview with Dr. Stephan Riess
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Published on Jun 19, 2015
This is a very important interview of the late Dr. Stephan Riess from 1985 about primary water.
For more information, please visit the www.primarywaterinstitute.org and www.primarywaterworks.com.
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What is Primary Water? 1985 Interview with Dr. Stephan Riess
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Primary Water EXPLAINED - Why We DO NOT Have a Water Shortage
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Primary Water - What you didn't know about the manufactured drought.
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Primary Water - Stephan Riess and Walter Russell
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Published on Jun 19, 2015 This is a very important interview of the late Dr. Stephan Riess from 1985 about primary water.
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EARTH-GENERATED WATER: A POTENTIAL SOLUTION
Yep. My boomer parents removed the fruit trees in the 80s
I would LOVE to be in a community of people JUST LIKE this family! Independent, and widely dispersed on 5 or 10 acre parcels- growing all our own food and raising all our own meat. Collaborating, helping and trading with each other for whatever we need but don't grow and organizing our own mutual defense. Permaculture, Organic gardens and crops, Sylvopasture, rotationally and grass grazed meat. Beauty and hard work, not concrete and blacktop. What a dream.
People originally fled to towns to escape servitude to landowners of the rural estates. The Homestead act served to make this country unique and should be renacted.
Simply amazing ! What hard work ,dedication,discipline ,perseverance ,and prayer can accomplish.......you reap what you sow.
I just made an offer on 40acres. I'm looking for kindred spirits for off-grid homesteading !
Benificent Millipedius where are you located?
rocio quintero email me on tnluv4@hushmail.com Peace
+Benificent Millipedius I emailed you are you still looking?
+Aluminum Received no email. Yet.
Will it said your email address doesn't exist do you have another email address? preferably from gmail or yahoo?
12 years later still an inspiration! Anyone can do this if they put in the work!
I hope to see a big propaganda campaign to encourage people in suburbia to do this. Most of that land was farm land not long ago. Unfortunately nothing is "real" or a good idea until the major media tells them it is.
Like a parent handing a child food.
we would be a happier healthier nation for it !
Madam Smellypits and before whites came and destroy it was forrest, but cant see forest behind trees
How inspiring. It's nice to know what can be done on such a small plot of land. It definitely takes years and plenty of helping hands but this shows that the effort can be worth it!
I would love to be living like these people. Gonna make a poly tunnel tomorrow.
Wow this is amazing everybody should do this. Grow your own veggies and chickens for meat and eggs. In this movie everybody is happy, the human and the animals. This is great! We love the grow your own idea as well 💚🌱🥑 kind regards Monique
so awesome. not your typical Californians. this family went all in
It's amazing what people can do with minimal space when the motivation is there.
They make this sound lovely, but anyone who ever went to bed hungry because they had to grow their own food knows different. Eating local and fresh sounds great until something like a drought or long winter and short summer hit you.
aureliusva that's why you can and freeze ... if you are that ignorant you deserve to starve
SaM CaT It is hard to can or freeze what you don't have. That is my point. If nature gives you a drought or a short season or a plague of bugs, you won't have food of any kind or you will have less food to can and freeze. Understand now? And that doesn't even begin to touch on the subject of what will happen to yields when fertilizer prices and availability change. That happens yearly. IMO, this is a feel good video that doesn't really address the hardships of living off of what you can grow.
sigh ... that is the purpose of canning and freezing, when you are growing your own food you grow much more than you can eat. 5 tomato plants will produce enough tomatoes in one season to last anyone two or three years. the same with any vegetable or fruit tree. it's not that hard to do ... really.... "hardships" are excuses ... :)
SaM CaT Are you aware that there are currently places in the U.S. that are in their fifth year of drought? Do you realize that those yields you speak of on tomato plants are dependent on more than just the space to grow them (fertilizers, rain, pests)?
I grew up, and still do, can and freeze. Let me tell you from personal experience that there are years that canning and freezing won't feed a family of five. Not only that, if a person or family chooses to live solely on what they grow on an urban farm, the yields you speak of won't cover their hunger. I know, I grew up on an urban farm, before it was trendy. Being poor is hard, and these people are advocating eating along the same lines. Sorry, but in my experience, a person will have to have outside food resources.
BTW, hardships aren't excuses, they are a reality. Reality is, you will have hardships like drought, low yields, pests, storms and many other things. Sure they are to be overcome, but living solely off of what one can grow on an urban farm isn't a rosey picture or a feelgood youtube video. And all of this doesn't even touch on the fact that you will spend a butt load of time in your garden growing everything you need, so you better have a source of income to pay at least property taxes and utilities; not to mention saving for medical expenses, children, and the day you can no longer labor in the fields.
lol ... O.K. ... my family grew there own food for years and years .... and we survived just fine ... reality is this can be and is done on a regular basis from people that aren't whiners ... ;)
you don't need space to get fantastic yeilds, fertilizers aren't expensive if you use natural and now with things like hydroponics it's easier than ever ... like I said, there are those of us that DO and those that like to make excuses ... have a great day ... :)
Dude was so ahead of the curve. I remember watching this when it came out. Unfortunately many missed opportunities in life to get cheap land and live the true self sufficient lifestyle
I think the more you grow the more freedom you have and money you save and in return you don't have to work a 9-5 job to make ends meet since most of your money goes to food. Start planting people and break the shackles. Think about it if you work hard for sustainability you wouldn't have to work so hard at your day job and would have more time for yourself.
+KurdishGirl4500 this is the conclusion I have come to. I will start planting!
Pablo CID you have taken the first step to being free freedom comes in many steps, after growing crops comes water collection and storage from rain :)
You can never take a vacation with this lifestyle and your hours are far more than 9-5.
My brother and his wife had 5 hens in Tempe patio home and veggie garden and supplied themselves and neighbors with eggs....so proud you guys are able to do this in an urban environ.
the most surprising thing, to me, is that the oppressive local government hasn't told them they're not allowed to do this on their own property.
***** I don't think you understood my post. The U.S. government tries to regulate everything. I said it's surprising that the government has not told them to stop growing food on their own property, especially since they live in a city where regulations are usually very strict.
+Coyote Starrk the country of freedom isn't free...at all.
Waiting for the update video...
You might remember our report on some local growers. Shortly after episode aired, the zoning board cited them with ordinance violations and shut them down. The End.
With more people like these the world would be a much better place.
That's incredible. I'd love to learn how to do that and to have the place to do it.
I will adopt this life style any time.
In fact I grow some fruits and vegetebles my self in my back yard and I live in Las Vegas.!! Is just great.!
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We are working on the same idea. Isn't great to have your hands in the earth so close to the father we my children and I sit and wonder why we ever did anything different. When I was a child I loved to watch the farmers farm and always wanted to be one well now that dream is coming true May you be Blessed.
Ilive in the DC area and started to do the same, on a smaller scale. I had a lot of success and was thrilled until...I had the soil tested. Oh no. You simply shouldn't eat anything that grows in a soil where an important concentration of cars have been dumping lead into the atmosphere for decades. The L.A. and DC areas have always been heavily populated. Car powered on leaded gas have roamed these areas from roughly 1910 to the 70s when the change was made to unleaded gas. But the lead is not in the soil. Unless these people removed 1-2 feed of soil and replaced it with soil from elsewhere, they are poisoning themselves. I was for 2 years and I'm glad I tested the soil. Sure, go ahead call me a dream breaker, a pessimistic moron, etc....before you do what these people do, please do yourself a favor if you live in a huge metropolitan area, have the soil tested.
I really typed my original post way to fast without reading. I meant: " But the lead is now in the soil" and I meant: "Unless these people remove 1-2 feet of top soil"
In well amended loamy garden soil, most pollutants are biologically inaccessible, with only 2-5% of all molecules actually in a dangerous form. Heavy metals are still present in the soil, but cannot be metabolized easily because they have reacted to form insoluble compounds. A stable and healthy ecosystem strengthens the chemical reactions in the soil and speeds up the rate of nutrient cycling.
In fact, ingesting soil is actually a higher danger than the the plants that grow in it. Fortunately, a solid layer of one of the heavier types mulch can prevent a gardener from kicking up dust and inhaling it. Animals, however, inherently kick up dust while foraging, but unless the area is excessively polluted, they are generally safe to eat, milk, and collect eggs from.
I did a research paper on urban gardening for a final at my university, and before researching I had the same fears as you did. I was very surprised by these facts. The safety varies in each community, so you might have a more toxic as a result of industrial activity or past construction practices, so sending your soil to be tested is higher recommended even if you live in the suburbs (toxic pesticides like arsenics from past farming may linger for decades to centuries).
I live in California, so this area might be a lot cleaner than the Virginia/Maryland area.
Typically for raised bed gardens, such as they have, organic top soil from a nursery or soil distributer is purchased for the inception. Then, it is simply filled in with compost.
As a forager of wild plants ( never near highways) that also crossed my mind.. well lets hope so. The other issue is chemtrails get on everything ! So sad.. :(
I wonder if DE could mitigate some of theses issues.
these people live the way i want to live, and i'm getting there slowly but surely
good for this family impressive
This is also a testimony of raising productive kids into productive adults, who enjoy producing instead of consuming. Great job!
194 dislikes? why in the world would anyone dislike this??? are you people insane?
probably city officials, they're looking for more ways to tax people.
visually deficient people. clicked the wrong one.
Government Corporations hate self sufficient living. If they aren't able to make money off of you (don't they already make enough with the high cost of Property Tax?), then they want to find a way to make what you are doing, illegal.
Phoenix Fire truth absolutely. but theres more. they also want control of everything, and I do mean everything, and they will get it soon. that way if they control all food and buying and selling and can monitor all trans actions and deny transactions they dont approve of, then you (we) are more likely to fall in line when told, drink the koolaid and obey big brother and apostate one world religion.
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In my small city, you can get fined $360.00 per day that you are selling your vegetables. You can't sell cakes. You can't sell self made furniture or crafts. You can't raise livestock or poultry which will get confiscated. So country life is the only way.
not much freedom there !
Brave New America...keep re-electing them!
Raif Holister we can outsmart them: use peer to peer economy, barter goods, trade skills, it will be hard for them to fine you if you don't use cash transactions.
@iggypox if people could only remember how to do this!
We did this too on our subdevelopment lot for seven years. We produced 80% of all our food. It was a great run.
193 people are crazy
and lazy!
unskilled lazy bastards
if they do not want to.learn since it is too easy to do it then they are finished, will be waiting for a goverment handover
if they do not want to.learn since it is too easy to do it then they are finished, will be waiting for a goverment handover
bravo what a story,in this age of dependency this family is an example to follow..
I would LOVE to do this I live in oak ridge Tennessee. I have almost one Arce of land here in the city .99 but I know I would get many problems from the city in doing so. I can do the gardening but as for goats or chickens the city ordinance would fine me :( I seen 176 dislikes for this video? HHMM that perplexes me- why wouldn't you love this idea?
Cuase they are so deep into the machine. That what else are they, gonna say. Lloll...these people have mortgages, careers, upside down to the hilt. F ..else are they gonna say....lloll...the average guy gal with a family and house is in the red. They are looking at 3 million dollars they gotta find b and 2015 and 2035 to pay there house , send there kids to college and Mayne??....hit 1/2 a million in the bank. So what else are they gonna say but thumbs down. They missed the boat.
+David Woodby actually... according to my very limited knowledge of city rules and regulations, you might need a permite for the chickens and goats, but as for the garden you should be free to do as you please. As long as its in the back yard. I think there is a stupid rule somewhere that in some cities you can put gardens in the front yard, but u can only cover like 30% of the front yard. or some percentage like that. you should be able to call your city office and get that info no problem!
Tell you the truth. At this point??...there's some indoor gardens powered with led lights. That can grow, in a 5 foot sq area. With enough veggies fruits for the month. A good tank, beneath the system allows you to grow fish. That's your set up. Put an electric drill on a bike, and there's your getting around. Get a mirror food black pot, put food in it. There's your solar cooking. Get, a block of ice, cooler fan there's your free, a.c. rent??...I can't do nothing about, .....lloll...
+ray bon even with led indoor gardening its just not profitable.
Wonderful.. Homesteader's... Gardener's...Cook's DREAM!!! Bless You and your family.
gmo free. all day!!!!!!!!! reject monsanto!!
You realise humans have genetically modified crops since 9000 years ago? Without genetic tinkering you wouldn't have 80% of known crops. You want gmo free food? Enjoy your moss and tree bark.
A11ex LMFAO your right. Possible negative mutations?
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just imagine what will be done to the food just to get money.......... enough to make you sick
A11ex So you're telling us we have spliced genes from one species into another for 9000 years? And we have always made plants able to take all the Round Up herbicide you can spray on them? How stupid.... You're an idiot. Swallowing lies and gmo's....Maybe you should think more and research the disgusting company monsanto, the makers of DDT,PCB, and agent orange. The head of the USDA, EPA, and FDA all are former monsanto lobbyists. Justice Clarence Thomas was monsanto's corporate lawyer.
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You call me an idiot and you don't even understand the history of genetic modification in crops. Get a degree in bio and we can talk. Until then, gtfo.
I brought 20 acres of wood land and will be using your info as a resource for what I want to do. So awesome, thank you!!!
the govt hasnt legislated him out of bussiness yet? im surprised they havent gone after him for every lame excuse they can find . how dare he fend for himself and give others hope they could do the same .
Oh this is just awesome! My girlfriend and I are in the process of buying a home with 2 acres, and seeing that he can do this with just 1/10 of an acre, I can only imagine what I will be able to do on nearly an entire acre. Amazing! A lot of work involved, but well worth it :)
Greenhouse is the way to go. probably the best greenhouse or domes on the market period are the greenhousekits (dot com) geodesic domes with solawrap because they use the german solawrap keder covering and top quality frame. This premiere covering diffuses light and plants gro much better in this spectrum of light, and they burn less etc, big problems with greenhouses. meanwhile light transmission is 83% percent which is very good. The film has been used in european domes for 30 years and still functional. It regulates temperatures better, and has the stongest connection channel of any poly material on the market. It is not carbonate, but ethylene which is recyclable. heating in winter is required for best results. Best way to heat a dome? use the rocket mass stove. It is easy to build, and use a small fraction of the wood in a conventional wood stove good for homes too. it extracts every bit of heat from a log and STORES IT to release in your dome up to 48 hours. go to ernie and erica rocket mass stove site to learn about those. piling 2 foot tall dirt mounds over logs and sticks around thee edges (called HUGELCULTURE) means maximum light warms your beds vs using ply raised beds which hogs space and light and wears out, and the wood sponge in permaculture means watering is drammatically reduced. No building needed. When you elect to change out the dirt, you then simply shovel it out vs the problems with emptying containers. With hugelculture, your soil becomes more fertile with the passing of every year climaxing at 5 years vs having to rebuild the soil each year and you increase sq. footage for a given space and exploit airspace. dirt can be piled center of the dome in a tall pyramid shape.
I was really interested in your post. Do you think you could edit it for understanding? I have a slight reading disability, and have a hard time understanding runon sentences and paragraphs.
Robert Sparling Is this better:
"Greenhouse is the way to go. Probably the best greenhouse or domes on the market period are the greenhousekits (dot com) geodesic domes with solawrap because they use the german solawrap keder covering and top quality frame.
This premiere covering diffuses light and plants gro much better in this spectrum of light, and they burn less etc, big problems with greenhouses. meanwhile light transmission is 83% percent which is very good. The film has been used in european domes for 30 years and still functional. It regulates temperatures better, and has the stongest connection channel of any poly material on the market. It is not carbonate, but ethylene which is recyclable.
Heating in winter is required for best results. Best way to heat a dome? use the rocket mass stove. It is easy to build, and use a small fraction of the wood in a conventional wood stove good for homes too. it extracts every bit of heat from a log and STORES IT to release in your dome up to 48 hours. go to ernie and erica rocket mass stove site to learn about those.
Piling 2 foot tall dirt mounds over logs and sticks around thee edges (called HUGELCULTURE) means maximum light warms your beds vs using ply raised beds which hogs space and light and wears out, and the wood sponge in permaculture means watering is drammatically reduced. No building needed. When you elect to change out the dirt, you then simply shovel it out vs the problems with emptying containers. With hugelculture, your soil becomes more fertile with the passing of every year climaxing at 5 years vs having to rebuild the soil each year and you increase sq. footage for a given space and exploit airspace. dirt can be piled center of the dome in a tall pyramid shape."
Alex Plante Yes, thank you. The hugelkultur thing is interesting. I live in Germany (it is a german word) but have never seen one of these.
Robert Sparling Building on hugelculture, geoff lawton offers even more leverage. The basic principle is to build puddles and little damns on your property. in a large property these would be ponds. the plants gro much better in these catchement systems not only because of rain but because nutrients and minerals become automatically concentrated on that spot. I once had a mountain where i had planted 100 types of edible weed. what i found was that wherever a bull dozer had formed unatural berms and puddles, the plants grew far far better. find ways to catch the rain on any property. that is how you do it. you also can increase the water table doing this and to the extent your trees can endure a 7 year drought, and watering intervals in general just become far less. .
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Highspeed internet and Rib eyes... I cannot live without those two things. Everything else about this video is appealing to me.
Could someone please explain how they are producing gasoline from used fried oil ?
Hey George, he is making bio diesel from the used up frying oil from restaurants.
Wow this is truly inspirational. Imagine if the government spread knowledge like this.
I'd like a setup like this (only unlike these hippies, I'd have plenty of guns on hand--if society ever collapses and I have the only food and electricity in town, I want to make sure it doesn't get stolen from me.)
so a prepper? im in man XD
How do you know they don't have guns?
Why are guns even a part of this conversation? Who's to say, you'd be the only one to have food and electricity in town...you're living in a fantasy world. You're white, right?
AWESOME!!!!!!!!! => You people are 30 years ahead of the rest of the Nation!!! = GREAT WORK!!!!
What the heck are they talking about "accidentally GMO corn" taco shells? So what? Everything is GMO.
Probably GMO corn that was used and wasn't supposed to be used. Everthing is not GMO. Where do you get that from? When God made the Earth he didn't create GMO foods. Corporations created GMO foods.
Noah Beach I suppose I could reply intelligently with facts, figures, and essentially common knowledge. However, you mentioned "god", therefore I won't waste my time trying to explain anything to an individual that still believes in imaginary friends. The next time you're at a grocery store, have a look at some of the vegetables and ask yourself... "How did they make this seedless?" Answer: "GMO." We genetically modify everything. From domesticated animals, to the watermelons you eat.
Seedless watermelon is not made with GMO.
By GMO I am not talking about hybrids. I am talking about genetic material being artificially introduced into a plant to produce specific traits.
Noah Beach We (humans) modified the genetics of the watermelon by crossing the diploid and tetraploid lines of watermelon, with the resulting seeds producing sterile triploid plants. Fruit development is triggered by pollination, so these plants must be grown alongside a diploid strain to provide pollen.
When I was a child, my parents lived in town on an average lot. We didn't grow near what this family has, but we fed our family well. This rocks!
I have been dreaming of this for a long time. I cried when he mentioned Homesteadville.
Beautiful story, beautiful idea! I am inspired to see people do this. LOVE LOVE LOVE!
this is the best way to live & it brings the family together with healthy returns, last yr 25 ft run produced 12 plus gallons of tomatoes sauce,this yr looks good in some plants but not all;great yr for greens for the pot & juicer,keep on growing Mr Natural & of course Mrs too.
Every time I see a family in a big city like this, my pessism gets blown to bits! I love this! My cousin shared this with me on Facebook - thanks cuz!
I noticed that you said grace.My family and I are trying to do the same as you have achieved.We have a large family and we are aware of the quality of the current food.When you said that our children trust us to give them what is good and safe,I cannot tell you the private heartaches we have every shopping trip.I love the community Idea.But for now,We would like to just be able to ask advice on starting our way to freedom as you so brilliantly put it.My husband and I are subscribers 2 You.
This is so worth leaning and doing! What a way to be the example guys! Who wouldn't want to do this?!
You are my idols! I just moved to town from a farm and my new house has 100 year old oak trees smothering my house : ) I am so disappointed. And to top it off even though I have seen chickens in town there is an ordinance against it. This year I will have to drive 10 miles to grow a garden you are lucky you have the right environment for your life. I hope as the economy struggles there will be more support for people to have chickens and goats in town. Happy Gardening and Thanks!
Very beautiful garden......functional beauty is what I'm talking about. Well, kept, neat, organized. I'm very impressed and inspired.
good for him and his family. I wish them all the success they can achieve.
I've been working on this for some years with my "home" the past two and a half yrs. The garden has various experimental methods for watering but last year the water bill was 160 a month (3 months). I got a greenhouse this year and a late start. No goats, but have chickens (5 eggs/day). Living on SS disability 692 mo. Whew! You go people, there are more who enjoy the lifestyle - more than you think and there are more who need to learn. Smiles4miles
I love it, thanks for sharing! I hope within a year to be able to buy some land and start my homestead! Food should be free, I can't wait to help feed my community! Many blessings to you and your family!
I would have loved to know about this at least 10 years ago. Now as I'm turning 60 and my health has declined I don't think I'd be able to do anywhere near what this family has going. Man, I'd sure love it.
“Any child will take what their parent gives them” - let that be a cultural lesson.
I think this is wonderful. More people should learn to grow their own food. I grow my own food and I freeze and can it. Kudos to these people, they're doing a great job and I love their videos.
This family is living my dream.
This is just soooo inspiring. I grew up in a farm and I could really relate to this family.~
I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS TEN YEARS AGO. NOW ITS EVERYBODYS DREAM
HI I LIVE IN RURAL NJ ABOUT TEN MINUTES FROM PA. I HAVE SOME ACREAGE AND I RAISE CHICKENS AND SOME FRUITS AND VEGETABLES BUT AFTER WATCHING YOUR VIDEO YOU REALLY INSPIRED ME THANK YOU ! GREAT FAMILY ! ! !
Love it! You are so blessed to live in California. We need to get more involved. I live in Canada. Not lucky as you are with the weather, but still I do some gardening which I love.
One thing I noticed about the Dervaes`s house is the roof of it. They could put on a flat roof and use that extra terrace space to grow even more plants.
Wonderful I have started with chickens and my back yard what a wonderful family!
This family is total goals!
I think we should all learn from these people ...! Respect
Congrats for cultivating a challenging lifestyle, and living better than me and mine! Best of luck and continue on!
What can I say, God Bless them, More Power to Them. Transcendental Romanticism to the max.
NO WORDS WILL EXPLAIN HOW AMAZING IS THAT VIDEO...
VERY INSPIRING...
I'LL DO MY BEST TO BE THE SAME
I wish this was my family. Everything looks delicious. Thumbs up.
I just stumbled across this video, Very Cool. I just started a square foot garden system in the yard and have composting food scraps and yard debris for a few months. Growing up the backyard was always a garden and the trees were fruit bearing, Im glad to see this come back..
I live in Riverside CO. & this is awesome. The government doesn't want you to do this. They want you to participate in capitalism & consume more than you can financially afford. I'm also glad that they mentioned their water bill as that is the defining factor. I have a 10,000 sq. ft. lot, so now after seeing this video, I have no excuse. I'm going to start small & be happy with what I have. TY UA-cam.
this is one of the greatest things i have seen in a long time.if every family was like you guys this earth would a great place.take care and be well.
Peace and Blessings upon you and your family. Growing our own food is the biggest step towards self sufficiency ! Keep on pushin!!!
At the risk of sounding like a wide eyed zealot, urban farming really is the future. More people should do it. Great video, thank you very much.