Wednesday July 2, 2008, 8:42 pm
Resources from the article:

GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY

• The Ecology Center of San Francisco This locally grown nonprofit empowers the Bay Area to create just and regenerative city communities (eco-sf.org)

• Garden for the Environment’s nationally acclaimed one-acre demonstration garden hosts classes on organic gardening, urban composting and sustainable food (gardenfortheenvironment.org).

• Institute of Urban Homesteading K. Ruby’s classroom gathering place for gardening, permaculture, kitchen arts, herbal medicines and creativity (sparkybeegirl.com).

• Stonelake Farms Melinda Stone, co–founder of this 21-acre off the grid homestead in Humboldt County, works with University of San Francisco students to preserve rich folk wisdom and newfangled experiments in 21st century homesteading (howtohomestead.org).

• San Francisco Beekeepers’ Association SFBA’s meetings — held the second Wednesday of every month at Randall Museum — keep the Bay Area abuzz (month.sfbee.org).

• San Francisco Victory Gardens transitions backyard, front yard and unused land into organic gardens in select households. Might yours be next? (sfvictorygardens.org)GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY

• Moonwise Cultivate earth wisdom with herbal education, wild and whole food, compassionate communication and more (moonwiseherbs.com)

• North Seattle Community College A plethora of awesome classes for apsiring green thumbs (learnatnorth.org)

• Seattle Free School No money ever exchanges hands here, but there’s plenty swapping of knowledge on arts ranging from beekeeping, to raising city chickens to cheese and soap making (seattlefreeschool.googlepages.com).

• Seattle Tilth Dedicated to cultivating a sustainable community one garden at a time, Tilth teaches organics at demonstration gardens around the city (seattletilth.org)

• Seattle Urban Farm Company Want help setting up your own urban farm? Look no further: These folks will use their collective farming and gardening experience to establish a productive organic vegetable plot in your yard (seattleurbanfarmco.com)

There’s No Place Like Homestead

READ

• The Toolbox for Sustainable City Living by Austin Texas homesteaders the Rhizome Collective (rhizomecollective.org), an all-around, do-it-ourselves guide for creating locally-based, ecologically sustainable communities

• Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn, LA artist Fritz Haeg’s manifesto for making food, not lawns (edibleestates.org)

• On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen by Harold McGee (Scribner)

• Putting Food By, by Janet Greene (Plume)

BROWSE

• Read Garden Girl’s tips of the trade on gardengirltv.com or browse the archives on kitchengardeners.org

• Get cheesy with cheesemaking.com, dairyconnection.com, fiascofarm.com or leeners.com

• Everything you ever wanted to know about the birds and the bees and more can be found on backyardhive.com, beeculture.com, scientificbeekeeping.com, backyard chickens.com and thecitychicken.com

• Sow your wild (organic) oats with the help of victoryseeds.com, seedsofchange.com, bountifulgardens.org or groworganic.com

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***And Larry suggests checking out Path to Freedom, the urban homestead in Pasadena: www.pathtofreedom.com

Thursday July 3, 2008, 10:05 pm

Thanks Larry

Friday July 4, 2008, 3:06 pm
I have been studying organic horticulture at a community college. It's only one small step from there to organic agriculture. I have the books and the tools, all I need is a bit of land.