Urban Homesteading - call for submissions

[catherineldf]

Posting this call on behalf of my friend Rebecca P., who is all kinds of awesome and raises chickens in her urban backyward, among other projects.
Looks like a fun project.

Hello so many people from so many circles! This is BCC'd to a LOT of people so caution on your reply button! I am sending out a call for submissions. We are starting a new online magazine and forum called The Urban Homesteader. It will hopefully be up and running in the next few months. We are looking for articles, art, pictures, stories, recipes, how-to's related to all things Urban Homesteading.

 

What is Urban Homesteading? It is the creating of a more sustainable life on the micro and macro level in urban and suburban areas. Growing food, raising chickens, bee keeping, but also engaging in the local politics of positive people centered policy or the struggle to achieve that. For example, are people in your community attempting to build an intentional community? Is there push back?  Who are the unrecognized leaders in your community that keep it all stuck together. Is there an Octogenarian that has been maintaining a garden for 50 years? How does she can? Where does he keep his seeds? Is there someone off grid in a McMansion? We want to hear about it! Write an article, take pictures. Share your art and recipes and tips and how -to's. Write a book review or product review. Love your CSA? Co-op? School? Elected official?Tell us about it.

 

Share this post with others you know, friends, neighbors, college students, high school students, home school students. We are interested in all regions. We cannot offer compensation at this time other than publishing.

 

If you have a blog or website you would like linked to us please share it. And please link to us. Our blog is: http://theurbanhomesteader.wordpress.com/

 

The website will return with the first issue.

 

Thank you and enjoy the growing season!

 

Rebecca and Emily

Comments

[magentamn.livejournal.com]

Please re-post this when the blog is live. (All there is now is an error message.) I'm very interested, and I know several other people who will be as well. A close friend keeps chickens, several of us have gardens that provide us with food. I was at a workshop on Intentional Community in the spring, and I'd like to pass the info on to people I met there.

Thanks!

[catherineldf.livejournal.com]

I'd recommend flagging it and checking it every now and then. I expect it should be up in a week or two at the latest. I'm unlikely to remember to look at it again for awhile, that being the cost of overbooking oneself. :-(