Shaping SF Public Talk: Urban Homesteading

K. Ruby, Esperanza Pallana, Melinda Stone, three experts on Urban Homesteading, will bring their wit and intelligence to a wide-ranging presentation on the growing phenomenon. Ruby is co-author of “Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living.” Esperanza Pallana is behind the website pluckandfeather.com, and partof the farmfoodconnect site too, and will help focus on how food sovereignty and the right to grow and raise our own food in the city is becoming one of the biggest legal battles of the decade. Melinda Stone is the moving force behind the “11 in 11” workshops, taking homesteading skills to the 11 electoral districts over 11 months in 2011. She is also the videographer responsible for the enormously informational “How to Homestead” videos here. Find out how to start your own urban homestead from these experts, ask them tough questions, revel in the growing movement…