Homegrown Evolution — crops and chickens in L.A.
My sun-protective hat is off to the folks behind Homegrown Evolution, a blog about sustainable living in ... Echo Park.
Yep, they have chickens. Crops too. And they also have a book called "Urban Homesteading" that they will talk about and sign this Thursday (aka tomorrow) in L.A.
I just discovered blog and book (via BoingBoing), so there's lots to look at.
Now I know of three serious L.A.-area homesteader-types. Can you guess the other two?
Crops? Chickens? Very kinky...oh wait, you mean they grow food.
Oh! Oh! (raises hand). I know the other Biosphere in L.A. types. The Pasadena contingent with the blender on a bicycle -- Van something. And the other guy who composes toilet paper in his bathroom using worms and he wrote a book about urban homesteading. Yeah. I'm going to be a great addition to the old age home.
p.s. -- I still want chickens.
Chris Nyerges (http://www.christophernyerges.com/) knows how to live off the land &mdash and how to turn an L.A. home into an urban farm.
And it's the Dervaes family (http://www.dervaesgardens.com/ and http://www.pathtofreedom.com/) in Pasadena — they make their own biodiesel and have a pedal-powered blender.