![]() (That first year, the turkeys, which were so large they couldn’t fit in the oven, were named Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter.) Now she raises smaller heritage birds, which love to roost in her trees. Pitelka’s foray into chickens led to raising turkeys for the holiday table. A flock of 30 chickens provides eggs and meat. Three vegetable gardens yield year-round produce. Now a member of the California Rare Fruit Growers Pitelka harvests fruit such as mangos, bananas, apples, guavas, cherries, apricots, citrus (30 kinds) and star fruit from an orchard of 120 different trees. As she brought it back to life, Pitelka planted a few fruit trees. ![]() In the mid-1990s, she bought a house on a 3/4-acre lot whose garden had been neglected for years. Whatever that first garden project may be, more often than not it snowballs.Ĭase in point: Kazi Pitelka, a viola player with the Los Angeles Opera. ![]() In fact, a low-tech gauge of economic health is the subscription list for monthly Backyard Poultry which spikes whenever times get tough. Others are driven by the merciless squeeze of this awful economy, Knutzen says. Some urban homesteaders tap into the growing preference for hyper-local products. ![]()
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