{"title":"The Urban Homesteading Gurus ","slug":"the-urban-homesteading-gurus","type":"post","excerpt":null,"content":"![](https://y2ez6helhgi126su.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/uploads/nytimesgrd.jpg) When I think of Urban Homesteading ideals the Dervaes family come as close to perfection as I can imagine.  They have been successfully homesteading in a city for several years.  Go look at [Urban Homestead](http://urbanhomestead.org/) for the wealth of information that they have.\n\n> \"URBAN FARMING: Jules Dervaes and three of his adult children live on one-fifth of an acre in Pasadena, Calif., a block away from a multilane highway. On this tiny sliver of land, they manage to be mostly self-sufficient. “This is our form of protest,” says Dervaes, who is 60, “and this is our form of survival.”\"\n\nvia [NY TIMES: THE GREEN ISSUE | Little Homestead in the City - the Urban Homestead Journal](http://urbanhomestead.org/journal/2008/04/19/ny-times-the-green-issue/).","publishedAt":"2012-09-01T14:11:45.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-06-10T16:57:06.423Z","author":{"name":"Michael Janzen"},"categories":[{"name":"Gardening","slug":"gardening"}],"tags":[],"featuredImageUrl":null,"aeo":null,"site":{"name":"Homestead Style","url":"https://hscom.vercel.app"},"_links":{"canonical":"https://hscom.vercel.app/post/the-urban-homesteading-gurus","markdown":"https://hscom.vercel.app/post/the-urban-homesteading-gurus/llm.txt","json":"https://hscom.vercel.app/post/the-urban-homesteading-gurus/data.json"}}