Sensory Overload: Joe Kwon and The Avett Brothers

  This series explores the intersection one of nature’s perfect pairings – music and food – and the artists who are eating well and living HOMEGROWN on the road. Treat yourself to a hearty helping of The Avett Brothers. Their sound is infectious – spirited, organic, Americana. A sometimes-joyful, sometimes-heart wrenching, always-beautiful, fusion of strings, [...]

Living HOMEGROWN: Utility or Useless?

“I’m half of YellowTree Farm, an urban homestead that I founded with my husband in late 2008.  Together, we grow vegetables and raise animals on less than 1/10 of an acre in St. Louis, Missouri.  I don’t have children.  I have animals, which is kind of the same thing as being a parent, except I [...]

Living HOMEGROWN: How to Schedule your Planting by the Moon

My friends in college used to call me a Renaissance woman. I was always doing something crafty, creative, or utilitarian. I still am. My focus these days, instead of arts and crafts, has been farming as much of my urban quarter acre as humanly possible. With my husband, we run Dog Island Farm in the SF [...]

How to Live HOMEGROWN: A Work in Progress

I am the Flock-Tender here on HOMEGROWN.org. I am keeping a chronicle of my experiences learning, living, and growing a homegrown lifestyle fresh out of college. For the past few months I have been writing about my experiences in the “real world” as a recent graduate settling into a semi-HOMEGROWN kind of life.  It’s been [...]