All the hubbub...

on the web about the Dervaes family and their recent copy writing of several terms that describe the urban homesteading movement has been loud and angry.

I for one do not intend to recognize their sovereignty over the words that even my Grand Parents used to describe their garden.

I am a townie who gardens. I do call myself an urban homesteader as that is closest to my self description. That there are "urban homesteading" laws that go back decades I think that this man's attempt to call himself "the father of urban homesteading" a farce.

Okay done fussing.

Baby Tangerine!

The light is really awful for the picture... but here is one! Little baby tangerine... fascinates me as the temperatures have been hovering around 0 for most of the last couple of weeks. I don't know how self sufficient this will make me... but it will be local! Sunday there is a pot luck for the local urban homesteaders group... I will let you know how that goes! Off to Denver for the day.

The tangerines are in flower

The house smells wonderful. The indoor jungle is doing well, watered with bathwater! So I am all happy about it.

Though I have a bug in the downstairs grow light room that I am going to have to tackle with a bit more of a vengeance. No pictures of that as the entire place looks awful!

So the house smells great ... Tropical! A really good thing on a day when the high might be -04f!