{"id":4243,"date":"2009-03-01T14:59:58","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T20:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=4243"},"modified":"2009-03-01T14:59:58","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T20:59:58","slug":"dervaes-family-and-other-urban-homesteaders-remind-us-of-what-we-can-accomplish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/dervaes-family-and-other-urban-homesteaders-remind-us-of-what-we-can-accomplish\/","title":{"rendered":"Dervaes Family and Other Urban Homesteaders Remind Us of What We Can Accomplish"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spring is coming. In the Midwest, as in the other currently cold areas of the United States, that makes a difference.<\/p>\n
As I think about expanding my own, as of yet, modest urban food and plant growing efforts, it’s a massive inspiration to review the work of the Dervaes family in Pasadena, Calif.<\/p>\n
The family has popped up here and there on sustainablog.org in the past several months. You can listen to GreenTalk Radio host Sean Daily’s conversation with them<\/a>, or read about the family’s 100-Foot Diet Challenge<\/a>, as posted by sustainablogger Brian Baughan last month.<\/p>\n Kelli Best-Oliver included the Pasadena crew as part of a fantastic list of urban homesteaders who are blogging<\/a>, among other things, about how to turn our own tiny city lots into productive gardens — and beyond.<\/p>\n