New Earth Homestead
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The New Earth Homestead is a project of Terra Nova.
Our mission is to:
INSPIRE AND EDUCATE ABOUT THE JOYS AND REWARDS OF URBAN HOMESTEADING.
If you would like to schedule a tour of our homestead please call us at 831-425-3514
The New Earth Homestead is both a food producing homestead and a Permaculture demonstration. What is Permaculture?
“Permaculture is a design system that reconciles human communities with the ecological imperatives of a living planet.”
Ben Haggard
Here is an early design for the New Earth Homestead using Permaculture principles.

and the actual landscape

a flow form

Rain water catchment and a worm bin

a chamomile bed

ours chickens, the ‘Herb Girls’

brown and green chicken eggs

Harvest time!
Honey, eggs, tomatos, potatos, apples, pears, grapes,
chayote’, mashua, lavender, corn, hops, rose hips and fava beans.



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February 1st, 2010 at 7:40 pmI got to visit this oasis with my family. I lived with Ken 20 years ago when these ideas were germinating. Well, he did have the garbage can with sawdust composting system started. But the eggs, worm castings, hydrological considerations, cobb, bees, and dinner plate sized nasturtium weren’t there. Now they are. Plus.
July 31st, 2010 at 5:47 amThe New Earth Homestead made the family giddy. I wanted to eat the dirt. Ken Foster’s methods are a recipe for a post industrial earth healing!
THD
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