New Earth Homestead

Visit the Facebook page for the New Earth Homestead here.

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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Terra Nova Ecological Landscaping blog » Blog Archive » Making a cob bench Says:

[...] is just one of the techniques employed in the practice of Permaculture. Check out Ken’s Permaculture tour for more [...]
February 25th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
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amanda-rae Says:

beautiful chickens. what kinds do you have?
February 20th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
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Joel Says:

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Joel
March 7th, 2008 at 10:44 am
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For a Good Time call….. Terra Nova’s Ken Foster makes the Good Times. | Terra Nova Ecological Landscaping blog Says:

[...] New Earth Homestead [...]
February 1st, 2010 at 7:40 pm
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Tim Says:

I 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.
The 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
July 31st, 2010 at 5:47 am
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Claudia Boulton Says:

I attended a beautiful wedding at Costanoa last weekend. I seem to remember that you were involved in the landscaping there. Is that correct?
August 23rd, 2011 at 8:47 am

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