4000 Gallons + Rainwater Tanks. They are currently full.

These Pictures are from last year. This is our first yard we started cultivating about five years ago.

We now have 65 Fruit Trees and vines.

Grapes, Peach, Apples, Nectarine, Apricot, Fig, Jujube, Plum, Current, Hackberry and ServiceBerry.

Sharon Astyk is one of my favorite thinkers on resilience and sustainability. She brings it down to the ground where it belongs. In this blog she covers what we need to get sustainability working in our neighborhoods. It's going to take more than canning, kale and clotheslines. It's going to take getting involved at the municipal level as an organized group and at a national level. Many of the things that make living in the burbs potentially sustainable - are actually illegal at this time.…

According to the USDA:

"The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today released the new version of its Plant Hardiness Zone Map (PHZM), updating a useful tool for gardeners and researchers for the first time since 1990 with greater…

At a personal and at the community level we are all looking for ways to thrive in tough times. It is surely a struggle our families and our friends. So much change, so much uncertainty even as we hear the economy is improving.... It is not improving for many of us. This is a list of my favorite books to help you get way beyond survival. We can dream bigger dreams while recognizing our interdependence. There is a new vision emerging...join us!…

During the growing season, and then again in the fall, we flail chop wheat straw and apply it to our raised beds. Fall applied…

The gift of a dairy goat represents a lasting, meaningful way for you to help a little boy or girl and his family get empowered out of poverty.

Goats can thrive in extreme climates and on poor, dry land by eating grass and leaves. The gift of a dairy goat can supply a family with up to several quarts of nutritious milk a day - a ton of milk…

Having an empty tank was hard to do but needed to keep it down to the one. Using an empty tank in the same room I half filled it with water from the running fish tank, added a piece of ac filter, sprinkled it with basil seeds and turned on a light. As the forest grew I started reading up on aquaponics, and gardening in general. Having tasted freshly grown herbs and veggies, I have been expanding the garden.

There is now a small koi pond hooked to a growbed( both pretty much made using…

 "The gathering was life changing. Welcome to a revolution!" - Paul Tryba, THE FARM, Long Beach, CA

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