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Fun Things to Do Around Pasadena: The Dervaes Urban Homestead

February 02, 2009

Some of us may dream of going "off grid"--completely independent of the utility company as a power source--so it's inspiring to meet people who actually have. The fact that the Dervaes family lives one block north of the 210 freeway, a scant miles from downtown Los Angeles in the city of Pasadena, and produce almost 6,000 lbs of fruits and vegetables on 1/10th of an acre --it's nothing short of  Read more...

...teaching kids about charity and giving to others

December 15, 2008

It occurs to me that in general, fall is a good time to take stock. For eons, it was harvest time and you had to know how much you had on hand so you could make it through the winter. So just as you're blessed with abundance (hopefully), you also prepare for scarcity; fall is when we hold those two contradictory notions in our minds at the same time. At our house, we don't wait for  Read more...

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