CNN - Urban Homesteaders

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June 15, 2008. CNN's Thelma Gutierrez reports on a family living the ultimate green lifestyle on an urban farm in Pasadena, California.

CNN Video link: http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/06/15/gutierrez.urban.homesteade...

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[bionicmisfit]

This is what kept this country going during the Depression...and in the war years when everything was rationed (except for the filthy rich and war profiteers) we had Victory gardens just like this. You are looking at the immediate future...especially after this November. Living at harmony with Nature can make an unbelievable difference in your life.

[MaxWatt1]

Always the way: The crazies on the block to the envy of the community.

[westchinaman]

i rather raise fish and rabbits in my backyard. I am a meat man.

[PrimeTargetSecurity]

the new bill just made it illegal to grow your own food, and soon to raise any livestock whatsoever including chickens and rabbits - they want us to starve. stock up on seeds too as im sure theyll be gone soon to. here in detroit area a lady was in the news for almost doing time over a small garden. things are afoot in the good old repulic my friend.

[DreamsCatcher101]

I just started my veg/wildlife garden. A few month ago i had a lawn and hedging and the surrounding gardens are all the same kind. Urban "sterile gardens".

March this year i planted loads of edible flowers, made a raised veg bed and started some containers with veg, made a compost bin from old pallets and put a bird box up.

The guy next doors thinks im nuts for ripping my patchy "sterile" lawn up but loves the birds in the bird box and insect life that comes to my garden not his. HA HA

[edmit2001]

Also perfect garden design... Things that hard to find in eco people :-P

[mindfull777]

i would love to marry anais and join that family

[DAVETHELOSTCAMPER]

i love it

[JunkMale57]

Dervaes Family: I am sure you had no idea your trademark pursuits would garner the type of attention you are now experiencing. Rather than digging a deeper hole and leaving fewer ways to gracefully resolve this maelstrom, please stop digging. There may yet be hope to "unring" the bell and find a way to begin rebuilding your credibility and rejoining the homestead movement.

[tuvoca]

@nicoyar Those toilets are common in Asia (Japan, Hong Kong, etc.).

[cresidue]

These people are awesome!!!

[nicoyar]

Where can I get me one of those toilets? That's too cool!!! :)