6,000 lbs of food on 1/10th acre - Urban Farm - Urban Homestead - Growing Your Own Food

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 http://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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[ElGatoLoco698]

$20,000 a year on less than an acre of land? Lord have mercy. That is freakin awesome.

[steveybee1]

DISOBEY my brother. "In the end they will have my body, but they wont have my obedience" Ghandi

[wildaboutoz]

brilliant! now let me at his daughters!!

[Dkundzinsh]

Guerrilla gardening bro, when time comes for SHTF these guys will be shut down first, but if no one knows you are growing you might have a better chance to survive.

Urban homestead is good while society still functions, when civil unrest and marshal law takes off you better be out of the city, not to mention of all the raids they will have on their little homestead farm if the FEMA trucks wont come first.

[Rose K]

I want to do this in Chicago!!!

[mordsith05]

I am So inspired :)

[Quarante Sept]

>Their website gets 6 million hits a month

There's that number again. Muh 6 zillion!

Good video tho. I want to do this so bad.

[Dave p]

good luck to you! get out of Cali! with that it is all possible

[Dianne Merrill]

Sooooo awesome! How about adding an outdoor hearth oven for own bread and to sell? We know folks doing it offgrid who can't keep up with the cash orders.

[Kenneth Surgent]

I wonder when the Feds FDA will raid them at gun point? Your not allowed to be self sufficient. The Government is your God and Savoir