April Events: Film & Food Night, Homesteading in the City & Earth Day Events

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April Community Events

Join us at these community events and workshops this month. See event listing below or check out our new online calendar

:: Urban Homesteading Presentation, Santa Library ::

Date: April 15, 2010

Time: 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Location: Santa Public Library - Luther King Jr. Auditorium Address: 601 Santa Blvd., Santa , CA 90401

Cost: FREE

Event Details: In the midst of a dense urban setting in downtown Pasadena, radical change is taking root. For over 20 years, the Dervaes family has been transforming their home into an urban homestead, a model for sustainable agriculture and city living. They harvest three tons of organic food annually from their 1/10 acre garden. Solar energy and biodiesel reduce the family's footprint on the earth. Come, see the award-winning short documentary, Homegrown Revolution, and hear founder, Jules Dervaes, discuss the elements of urban homesteading

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:: Film & Food Night POV & PTF team up for FOOD INC screening ::

Date: April 18, 2010

Time: 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Location: School Address: 626 Cypress Ave, Pasadena, CA 91103 Map

Cost: Suggested donation of $10 paid in advance or $15 at the door (couples $20 at the door). (Children under 12 are free.)

Cost Details: A small suggested donation helps pay for facility rental, sound system, and purchase of eco friendly compostable dinnerware. Space is limited (100 seats) so advance reservations are strongly recommended.

Event Details: This event is a collaboration with POV (Point of View), PBS' award-winning nonfiction film series.

Film

How much do we know about the food we buy at our local supermarkets and serve to our families? Though our food appears the same as ever — a tomato still looks like a tomato — it has been radically transformed. In the Academy Award®-nominated blockbuster Food, Inc., producer-director Kenner and investigative authors Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Pollan (The Omnivore's Dilemma) lift the veil on the U.S. food industry, revealing surprising and eye-opening facts about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we may go from here. (Caution: There are some images of animal cruelty that may disturb viewers. Parental discretion advised.)

Potluck

Bring something (preferably vegetarian) to contribute to the potluck - bring enough food for yourself/family and a bit to share. The primary focus of the `Locavore' potluck is to promote eating whole foods, in their nature-made state, focusing on fresh food from local sources (or as local as possible). If not FROM BACKYARD then locally produced. If not LOCALLY PRODUCED, then Organic. If not ORGANIC, then Family farm. If not FAMILY FARM, then Local business. If not a LOCAL BUSINESS, then Fair Trade.

Freedom Garden Swap 'n Meet

Join local homegrown revolutionaries - swap crops, seeds, expertise and more. Growing for 21st century food security, FreedomGardens.org is a free interactive, online social community of gardening enthusiasts who are fed up with foreign oil, frequent food miles and high food prices.

RSVP TODAY- click here!

:: Greening the Earth Day Pasadena ::

Date: April 24, 2010

Time: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Location: Memorial Park, Pasadena Address: 85 E. Holly St, Pasadena, CA 91103

Cost: FREE

Event Details: Path to Freedom and Freedom Gardens will be exhibiting at the eighth annual Greening the Earth Day at Memorial Park in Pasadena.

Come by and check out their Urban Homesteading table.

About Path to Freedom's Urban Homestead™

Self-Reliant Living in the City

Since the mid–1980s, members of the Dervaes family have steadily worked at transforming their ordinary city lot in Pasadena into a thriving organic micro farm that supplies them with food all year round. These eco-pioneers also run a successful home business providing their surplus produce to local restaurants.

Through their adventures in growing and preserving their own food, installing a solar power system, home-brewing biodiesel for fuel, raising backyard farm animals, and learning back-to-basics skills, these modern-day pioneers have revived the old-fashioned spirit of self-reliance and resourcefulness.

Since 2001, their blog and worldwide media coverage have inspired millions to take steps towards a sustainable future and have generated the 21st century urban homestead movement.

Learn more about their urban homesteading journey on their blog at Little Homestead in the City

Visit Our Network

www.UrbanHomestead.org

www.FreedomGardens.org

www.FreedomSeeds.org

www.PeddlersWagon.com

www.DerVaesGardens.com

www.HomegrownRevolutionFilm.com

www.JulesDervaes.com

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