The Urban Homestead - "Heirloom Tomatoes"

February 2007 - Garden enthusiast & heirloom tomato addict, Justin Dervaes, demonstrates how he gets a jump on spring plantings. Justin, who also is an expert in homebrewing biodiesel to fuel the family's diesel car, lives on a revolutionary urban homestead model in Pasadena CA.

For more about their revolutionary urban homestead project urban sustainable living and homesteading check out their website at www.PathtoFreedom.com

[Footage courtesy of Larry Frank of LPG Productions a pitch tape for Hallmark Channel's 'New Morning']

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• urban
• homestead
• gardening
• permaculture
• starting
• tomatoes

[GoldMongoose]

Our family loves your website!

[girlyoudontknow2]

I tried a yellow this year. Very nice, delicious. Great video.

[the1969info]

hi there, I like your videos, I have been looking at everyones videos about gardening so that I can garden from their combined knowledge. Since you like tomatoes so much I thought I would tell you about praxxus55712 look him up on youtube. The way he grows tomatoes from seeds is different yet seems to be a better way to do it. I hope you enjoy his video.

Good luck with your gradening.

[jeremiah168lms]

I love tomatoes too! I started Brandywine Pink tomatoes. The seedlings are up and they are doing well.

[ChickenAwesome]

Most (if not all) are actually hybrids. I don't think GMOs are that common in stores yet.

[dylan14570]

WOW! i am so happy to have stumbled on your videos. I hope you have time to reply. i need help with my tomatoes. They turn yellow (please see my video "Donna's Square Foot Garden, part 28,29"). Thanks so much for sharing the love of the earth and gardening!

[seasonseatingsfarm]

Are you thinking of genetically modified organisms as the same thing as hybrids?

[shalarthing]

Most tomatoes at the store are genetically modified. Tomatoes are very delicate and need to survive machine harvesting. This prompted modification a long time ago through selective breeding. They are made to be large, resistant to bruising and parasites, and to be nice and red so people will buy them. Of course this doesn't always make for the tastiest or healthiest tomatoes, but it provides lots of tomatoes to nearly everyone in the country inexpensively.

[seasonseatingsfarm]

Which tomatoes are GMO's?

[emforty2]

market tomatoes are just big and juicy[water mainly]

they have no taste nor nutrient as they are geneticcally modified to grow fast/big not accounting for taste nor nutrient value.

no wonder our population is fat were getting all the calories but our body craves for nutrient and it prompts you hunger and you keep eating but not get any nutrient

guess what you get FAT.

the world Mal-nourished does not belong to Africa it belongs to USA as well