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The Greening of Gavin An Ordinary Australian Man Who Has A Green Epiphany Whilst Watching A Documentary, Gets a Hybrid Car, Plants A Large Organic Vegetable Garden, Goes Totally Solar, Lowers Consumption, Feeds Composts Bins and Worms, Harvests Rainwater. All In The Effort To Reduce Our Family's Carbon Footprint So We Can Start Making A Difference For Our Children & Future Generations To Come.
There is an exciting challenge ahead of all of us: How can we revitalize our extraordinary planet,
ensucommunity life and health for the environment, the ecosystems, humankind, and future generations? The
answer is as close to each of us as the food we consume each day. We can begin to create a better
world from right where we are - in home gardens and mini-farms, in virtually all climates and soils. This is
what we are striving to do at YellowTree Farm.
An almost 30 American living in Germany, trying to become more self-sufficient. We live in an 1830's farmhouse and are doing our best to renovate it while learning to be new parents. Our goal is to provide all of our own produce throughout the year, raise chickens and reduce all of our costs in general. Eventually we'll also be trying out barrelponics, raising goats, building an earthen oven and who knows what else.
Urban Homesteaders For urbanites only who have merged off the freeway of life onto a more sustainable path. The community’s mission is to bcommunity 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.
:: Community Outline ::
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, powecommunity 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.
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