Local Farmers Featured at Whole Foods
Event Details
WHAT: The South Central Los Angeles farmers who starred in the 2008 Academy Award nominated documentary “The Garden” will be will host an organic cooking demonstration; sell and share local organic produce from their new farm in Shafter, CA; and host a roundtable discussion about Locavore community food initiatives
WHO: The film’s featured farmers: Tezozomoc, Sarah Nolan of South Central Farmers’ Cooperative CSA program Jules Dervaes of Path to Freedom, Creators of Fallen Fruit Cisco Pinedo of Cisco Home
WHEN: Saturday, April 11th from 12:00 NOON to -4:00 pm
WHERE: Whole Foods Market Arroyo Parkway 465 South Arroyo Parkway, Pasadena CA 91105 · (626) 204-2266
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Dervaes family short film HOMEGROWN REVOLUTION will be available for purchase at WHOLE FOODS Markets in Pasadena (Arroyo Parkway and Hasting Ranch) and possibly Glendale once arrangements have been finalized!
Homegrown Revolution (15 min) is a short informational introduction to a homegrown project that has been called a new revolution in urban sustainability. In the midst of a densely urban setting in downtown Pasadena, radical change is taking root. For over twenty years, the Dervaes family have transformed their home into an urban homestead and a model for sustainable agriculture and urban living. Calling this project, “Path to Freedom,” the Dervaes Family shows that change is possible. As a family for this new paradigm, they harvest 3 tons of organic food annually from their 1/10 acre garden while incorporating many back-to-basics practices, as well as solar energy and biodiesel in order to reduce their footprint on the earth’s resources. Environmentalism and the health of our planet is a theme that weaves through the film. This film is a mere 15 minutes but is packed with the history and the successful outcome of this new urban sustainability movement. It is meant to inspire and encourage others – young and old – to take a look at what they have and realize that change can begin with a single step and can be created right in our own backyards.
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 site has inspired hundreds of thousands to take steps towards a sustainable future and has generated a 21st century urban homestead movement.
visit their blog Little Homestead in the City
