RING DESCRIPTION: For urbanites only who have merged off the freeway of life onto a more sustainable path. The ring’s mission is to bring together city folks on the path. Urban homesteaders who are taking steps to live a more self sufficient life in regards to their food, energy, water, waste, transportation, lifestyle and more.
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Definition of "Urban": less than or no more than 1/2 acre to 3/4 acre.
Urban Homesteading Lifestyle Guidelines: Doing more with less, growing a sizeable % (at least 50 percent) own produce (fruits, vegetables, herbs), raising citified animals (at least chickens, rabbits), composting, vermicomposting producing own alternative energy, alternative heating, using alternative transportation, back to basics skills (food preservation, soapmaking, sewing, breadmaking, etc), simple living, powering down, unplugged lifestyle, homegrown diet, operating a viable home based business, home-unschooling, energy and waters conservation practices, greywater and rainwater practices and more!
Being the change we wish to see by living the solution on a daily basis.
Please click one of the links below to enter the RingSurf Viewer. JOIN RING NOWRambling Woolysheep Random Ramblings of my Addled Mind. I am new to this whole gardening, chicken raising, urban homesteading idea. Follow along as I navigate this new way of life and coax my family along. You will see our home and projects as we progress and will get a ringside seat to my intermittant rants and ramblings too. You never know what you will see here because I don't know what is going to happen next.
Gourmet Gardens at Em's PlaceEm's place is an account of urban living in Oklahoma City. It is my thoughts around gardens, homelife and ramblings as I move along a path of deliberate choices with my daughter and friends. Stop in anytime!
An Urban Plot AN URBAN PLOT or how to grow food and change the world one city lot at a time.
Chronicles one gardener's quest to produce organic food for her family, the adventures of a new way of thinking about lawns and yards, and an exploration of urban self-sufficiency and homesteading in the city.
The Sustainable Backyard The Sustainable Backyard is a chronicle of one smalltown family's quest toward a simpler, more sustainable lifestyle.
My Earth Garden Acres away from ordinary.
UrbanHippie FarmOur family's journey toward urban homesteading and sustainability.
Holding Up the BypassThis is a journal about a path which, for us, began with choosing not to send our children to an institutional school to learn. As we've grown into living and learning independently, organically, and with compassion and deep connection as a family(radical unschooling), we are continually expanding those same principles to more and more aspects of our lives. This blog is about our journey toward a more sustainable lifestyle in a Northern Kentucky suburb of Cincinnati, OH.
Anarchy In The AKA southern girl trying to re-learn sustainable urban homesteading methods as applied to an Alaskan climate.
A Satisfying Journey Towards SimplicityThis blog records our family's journey as we: move towards living a sustainable, natural and simple lifestyle. We live on a 1/4 acre section and unschool.
Goodbyegoods My attempt to walk away from the lure of consumer goods in order to live a more sustainable lifestyle. Come with me as I navigate this world through environmental conservation, discovering nature, gardening and homeschooling.
a little redJoin one mama, clothed in crimson, as she wanders through a life of homeschooling, urban homesteading, and making art out of everyday.
Rambling WoolysheepRandom ramblings of my addled mind. My interests are varied and include urban homesteading, Slow Food, SCA, arts, crafts, reading,and whatever else pops into my head at any moment. You never know for sure what I will be writing about because I don't either.
This Girls (green) Life The beginnings of a new way of life for my family by using mostly free and salvaged materials. I am SAHP of 3 children , 2 homeschooled. As a matter of neccessity, I have always lived a simple life from living in a tent to a trailer, made my own clothes and refrained from credit and frivilous purchasing, and have a very DIY attitude about life.
Empress of Dirt Creating an organic eating and perennial garden on a small lot on the edge of a Canadian small town with a small budget and a big love of nature. Also includes garden art trash to treasure creations to add interest to the emerging garden. Would love to have chickens and goats but for now, I bloom where I've planted myself and consider frugality an art form.
Georgia Street Community GardenA single man and his family decide to clear four lots in Detroit and single-handedly grow a garden for their community. The blog was started by a woman residing in the suburbs with ancestral ties to Detroit. She decides to watch Georgia Street Garden grow and document it, Detroit, urban prairies, and a little history on the side as time permits.
Coming Up For Air Wife and mother of 3, our family has begun the journey into Urban Homesteading. We homeschool, recycle like mad, grow our own food, bake our own bread, we are Volkswagen addicts and generally we just love life!!
city pfarm girla begining gardeners efforts to turn our city lot into a sustainable urban homestead by livin' local and cookin' seasonal.
Natural, Happy and Free!Unschooling. Attachment Parenting. Urban Homesteading. Sustainable Living. And everything in between.
The Backyard Homestead Our daily journey toward a more sustainable life: gardening, canning, chicken raising, children raising, and a few opinions thrown in along the way.
ToMo Urban Homesteading One family's approach toward a more frugal and low impact lifestyle
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