Thursday, December 4, 2008

Plucky modern homesteaders in Echo Park

I admire Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen: they're part of a new generation of homesteaders that promote modern self-sufficiency. In their case: a farm in Echo Park within view of my old house that produces almost all of their veggies and some fruit.  I liked the fact that they've turned the entire landscape into mostly edible plants like artichokes, tomatoes, beds of lettuce, herbs with some very healthy and well-protected chickens (hawks, coyotes and raccoons are the local predators).  They were kind enough to share some "farm fresh" eggs when I visited them for an interview for the Los Feliz Ledger.  They have a very useful blog; the most recent post includes plans for a cocktail bar in your hand built fallout shelter--definitely a must have.

1 comment:

Pat Saperstein said...

And the L.A. Times has an article on their chickens:
http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-chickens6-2008dec06,0,6975632.story