Growing a Greener World Episode 1005: Modern Homesteading - Transforming the Urban Garden Experience 

I am an urban cottage gardener. I think that growing in the city is important to the health of the city dwellers. I also think that teaching children and encouraging communities to know where their food comes from. Thanks for sharing this info.

THAT is how you do a sponsor ad. One quick, unintrusive brand and slogan flash and we're done. Good job, Growing a Greener World. Good job, Subaru.

So happy that Growing a Greener World is available on RU-vid!

Please interview Jess Sowell of Roots and Refuge Farm. She is such a joy to watch as a homesteader.

3-7-2022 I am so ready to start my garden I leave in a mobile home lot. Lots of pots.

Every show is full of information . It's like getting a college education from the best teacher and his guest

I hate when people, the the first guest, ask "What's in what you're eating, can you pronounce it?" like that is the measure of food safety. I have a degree in Biology so yes, I can pronounce the ingredients, if I posted a list of everything in an apple, most people couldn't pronounce them. To say something is bad just because you can't pronounce it is assinine.

Thanks!

This is not a city fenced off plot for a small garden. It's countryside living off the land. Not concrete. Back to basics. When someone is labeled "an authority" on permaculture farming, etc we need to look back a generation & see that the real authorities have already lived like this for generations. Just no videos back then. There are farmers that live off the land & use the resources while giving back. And there are farmers who grind the soil into dust, cover it with man made fertilizer & spray every ounce of soil then take what grows to market abroad. U don't have to have pigs, cattle, etc to be a farmer. Farm what the land provides.

CHANGING ONE'S CLIMATE not the other way around. We have limited movement at this moment in time due to a little virus, one good thing is vegetable seed sales have rocketed in the UK. I can totally understand what you're trying to deliver as a sustainable message. I grew up in a family that didn't have money for needful things so they made best use of what they had. They worked very hard for their worth. We always had a roof over our heads, good home cooked food on the table and hand made or thrift shop clothing to wear. Living on the 'Never, Never' was seen as shameful as it was a sign of bad house keeping. Charles Darwin wrote about how life adapts to survive. I think we all are so homogeneous that rather than being self sufficient we are unable to live without being told how to think for ourselves, to live with successes and failures in equal measures. Forgive me for sounding too preachy but when we get told by the "jet setters" that we should all believe in climate change because their data modelling has come up with forecast figures I automatically am sceptical. When was the last time you ever bought vegetables that weren't wrapped in plastic? In my little part of the world it's not about climate change globally, it's more of a degree of my change of climate. I have grown my own vegetables since I was a child. Our playground was in between the bee hives.

What an interesting episode, really enjoyed it! And I love the idea of drying the herbs in the car ;)

Beatitude 💅.you have beautiful positive thoughts in ur heart and living with green mute nature .Literally luminary walk greenway proudly boasting of its eye soothing beauty.I am Thankful for the opportunity to be great full 🙏.

i used to watch this on tv--theonly station i could get--and miss this. no tv for me. happy to find this again on utube. deatra parks

a great life style...worth emulating by all of us...and move towards a greener world....loved it..

Practical Permaculture was the textbook for my Oregon State Univ. PDC

Not sure I would have shown a horse when she says her animals are also food. Just me maybe.

Great. Love the RU-vid format with longer overall videos. Please keep them coming.

Love it. But about the chickens... I would rather make a Justin Rhode's chickshaw than standard coop. Less messy work. And I would put a compost area to the run.

What an AWESOME chicken tractor! Totally copying this design today! Thanks for inspiring!

Excellent. Good ideas for me. Thanks

I'm imagining a big pottery thing made like the the store bought in-ground composting system. Or 2 clay pots, a few wooden stakes around perimeter, coming slightly above lip of bottom pot, so up-turned top one is secure when placed back on for the cover. Or just a pot tray for the cover. Use a masonry drill bit ? ( I'm not a drill expert, but am guessing).

I would love to hear what perennial foods she’s planting.

Joe, what a great episode! Thanks for the videos and television show. Always enjoy.

Great video. We took the leap into living off grid with solar, composting toilet, and we currently haul water, but plan to capture water for crops and animals in the future. We started raising some of our own foods, including, meats and eggs 6 years ago as I had also begun approaching gardening and landscape the permaculture way. We now live in the mountains in Eastern Wa at a high elevation with a shorter growing season, then what we had when we lived closer to town but in a frost pocket. As much as I love growing vegetable and herb gardens, what excites me most is learning about wild edibles and medicinals are in our local area.

It's a great Baby 😻❤️

Thank you for sharing your excellent work...I hope I can apply this in my farm one day...love farming...from Brunei

Amazing gardening information. Thanks.

Thank you Joe for bringing us very practical and innovative gardeners! Amazing human beings! Your channel always have great content and inspiration. God bless you and all what you do.💝 from Zone 7b, northern NJ.

I enjoyed this so much. Really something to inspire to. Though I may not actually create such a beautiful growing oasis as they have, it is certainly something I’d like to strive for. No criticism here.

That is the hugest urban lot I’ve ever seen.

Thank all the team work..so much teacher me

I love this show very much ❤️ AWESOME!!!!

About the little box-top greenhouse, anyone have any suggestions for allowing rain to come through, so we don't have to water using mains or stored water? Is there a way to have a kind of greenhouse roof but still capitalize on rainfall? Perhaps leaky wooden windows? ;)

Joe, thank you for a great video! I have been following you since you were on Garden Smart!

That's so cool to have such a productive little farm just outside of Seattle... I lived there for a little while very nice place to live

You're making future bright and use compost for farming it is very good

Thanks Joe and team!

1/3 rd of an acre,what matters is your ability to grow and feed freshness. Very nice to see how the perspectives change as to what is available and ready(in its prime)will be on the table. Unspoiled raising of the kids.

So much great information 👍

Excellent subject mater. I loved it. from Zone 9A, Central FL.

You should have James Prigioni on the show!

What an inspiration! She demonstrates some great innovative tips!

I love strong women.

I am sad to say no not common sense anymore. Please understand Jessi that the majority of the worlds population does not have a parent such as yourself. I am very appreciative of your methodology but please understand that the brunt of the ecological war is stemming from a lack of education from any given community's educational system as well as a lack of funding for such living choices as this. No, most people cannot pronounce the names of ingredients on anything they use, who knows what an MSDS sheet is anymore ...I digress. I do not want to identify a problem w/o a solution. So what do we do to save our ability to live on this Earth? I think we may need to come out of our hollows and get voices heard in a more effective way. I mean well and hope you take my words in stride. I am definitely getting anxious about our current eco situation.

Can you offer any helpful solutions to pack rat issues? We moved off grid and our garden was destroyed by pack rats after the plants matured and started producing. We live in Eastern wa on 20 acres at a high elevation in the woods, mostly douglas fir and pines.

Very Nice 👍🇲🇦🙏

How long are the chickens and ducks kept before they become food too?

Jess is The Best!😇😚

The background music is too loud

I didn’t know Seth Rogan was into homesteading

Great episode,thank you

Great but I can really enjoy without the background music

Hallo!! Together!! jassee how are you 😹☺️💓🐱😊❤️

Love all these wonderful ideas

inspiring. love the way you look at things around and how your outlook pass through to you own kids

would love to see more time invested in this "food digester system" ?

Easy to understand the way you speak thanks

Why is it that permaculture people act like there is no such thing as rats/mice. Gardens, animal feed, manure all bring in rats and you have to plan for that too.

Too bad Erica is no longer pursuing her homesteading, at least publicly. Her segment is at least a couple years old.

Perennial foods? Please explain. Love this video. We need to know more...thanks so much.

I rather give my foodscraps to my chickens.

Last year was a bit of a bust with my impromptu garden but this year im gonna do it right. Compost, garden boxes, the whole shebang

Everytime I see Jack, he makes me smile and feel so happy. The Bees are such workers busily going from one beautiful flower to the next.

👍🏻🤗ty awesome video

, great info thanks

A greener world, I like that !

Oh yeah, the cops will definitely believe that I'm just "drying herbs" in the backseat of my car

I have property that is planted in trees for tax breaks. Could you find people to interview who know what to plant in a fir tree understory to harvest for food? I have wild blackberries, and an elderberry tree. I am considering blueberries and mushrooms. I would appreciate any help given. I think there is a lot of acreage in trees (for the tax break) that could also be managed for additional productivity. (Even if just along the edges of the access roads.) I don't know anyone else who's even considering doing this, can you find anyone? Again I'd appreciate any help offered. Thanks

If you go out for a vacation,who take care of your chickens?

Thank you! This is so informative and inspiring!

This was a great video ! !

Use ecosia search engine. My family and I do!! It is beautiful. I just bought a tshirt from them. And that will be my holiday gifts for my family And friends

I could watch urban farming all day!

I love it, thank you, greetings from Belgium

Hallo Jeaurny and your family so so much

lovely tour. thanks for sharing!

Wow just go ahead and put a commercial in the video... I pay RU-vid for zero commercials. I am sure this violates you terms of service.

"Growing small livestock" Shows a child Bwhahahahahahahahahaha

Good advice just. Too much music. It’s annoying🥴🐸🦜

I tried the chicken garden!, but after putting the chickens in the garden, 2 days later there was no garden 🤔

Whoa, this actually makes me wanna have ducks, because the messiness is what has been steering me away from it before. Thank you!

she looks like my next wife

Would share how make the chicken run?

Love it!

Number one input here is ....$$$$$ lots of $$$$$$

Nice

She looks great .

She's got an excavator for her compost... Not fair!

Fabulous, I really enjoyed the video and information.

Modern homestead.. prescription..the brothers Grimm..🧙...

I bet she smokes a lot of herb !

Does the first person they interviewed have a youtube? She has so much information.

I don't like chickens and they eat all the bugs. I like bugs.

8:15 A simple

Buy a Subaru,that sure will grow a greener world.

I agree with the principle of this video in every way. However, probably over 95% of people out there cannot live this lifestyle because of economics or physical location. Having chickens or horses is not possible in a suburban neighborhood or if in an apartment. Therefore this is a fantasy for most of us. What is wrong with this: Chickens Horses Excavator Land available Time available These are all not usually available for the average person. I doubt that even these people profiled can continue this process over decades. Maybe, in an experiment of life but not sustainable. Sustainable is a big word when you look at all of the factors involved. The land, the people, the livestock, the people living around you, the ability to maintain a continuing effort to make this all possible. Its similar in process to a perpetual motion experiment, novel in thought but not possible without outside input of energy. I do applaud the effort but question the long term ability.

So much great information 👍

Amazing woman!

I grew up in small town British Colombia. My grandparents had 2 1/8 acres in town. They had more than 30 fruit trees in addition to a large raspberry patch, black berries, and a large garden. We almost never had candy at home and never missed it. I don't know why everyone does this. You see people in town with trees in their yard. Whey don't they chop them down and plant fruit trees? Where I live now, raspberries cost $5 for a little box!!! You but it with AFTER tax income. IF ... the goverment is taking 60% of your income away, anything you produce become more cost effective. It's essentially tax free income. Also, there are so many children nowadays that are fat and diabetic. When I was a child and even now today, fresh fruit satisfies my sugar cravings and it's all natural. I think even cities should plant fruit trees all over the city rather than trees that don't produce anything. That would 1) help the homeless, 2) provide good food to school children or anyone else that could pick it and 3) it might even help with the problem of disappearing bees.

Makes a difference being in the pacific north west- rain, mild temp.