Where Sustainability And Urban Living Intersect

Although a vegetarian and a city inhabitant, I have a keen interest in all kinds of food--basically I’m a foodie--">
Holly contemplating something...and I have a particular interest in sustainability and community building in order to help preserve our resources.  I am also deeply interested in the farm to school movement and exploring with children how they can eat healthy and still have fun.  Although I spent the last number of years in technology, with this web site I am in effect returning to my roots and degree in Nutrition to demonstrate how typically rural activities around food can intersect with urban life.

On a parallel plane, my brother Ethan and his family moved to a property in the Hudson Valley they call Little House Farm.  The farm originally began as a weekend refuge and has now become a full-time experiment in community building and sustainability as Ethan explores his interests in solar energy and Blair and Winnie explore their love of animals.

The inhabitants of the farm are now Winnie the second grader, her mom Blair and dad Ethan along with cats Bindi2, Marmalade and Tristan, dogs Atlas and Lulu, Cricket-the non-maternal-rabbit, a host of Araucana hens and too many roosters principal among them Evil Parker (not to be confused with Winnie's friends Parker and Molly). At the end of the 2005 academic year, a New York City school donated four Langhorn hens and two additional roosters. The hens have since become part of the family's sustainable table.  Another rabbit named Alice/Al, six baby rabbits and several incubated chickens have rotated in and out as well.

 Needless-to-say, the chickens are good employees and produce a whole lot of eggs.  Winnie gives her teachers and delivers to family neighbors weekly care packages.  In fact, the family exchanges a Sunday morning delivery of eggs for freshly made Elderberry Jam from Alexandra across the road.   During the summer, Winnie sells the eggs at the local farmer’s market.

Please join us for this continuing sustainable journey where I look at how local farming, greening your home ">
Ethan, Winnie and Blair communing...and community building can intersect with urban life.  Read top farm news discovered both in urban areas and farming counties and learn about experiences living on a farm that might in some small way be adapted to life in a city.  

Join us!
Winnie, Blair, Ethan and Holly (aka Aunt HaHa)
 
P.S.  Come visit us at the Millbrook Farmer's Market on Saturdays from Memorial Day weekend thru October from 9 a.m. until the eggs sell out.