Oxen Driver Part of Basics of Urban Homesteading Workshop, 10-11:15 AM, 4/24
Malaki Obado will be part of Basics of Urban Homesteading
Workshop, 10- 11:15 AM, April 24,
at 2010 Cultivating Food Justice Conference
Date: 4/13/2010 12:59:20 PM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 1338 times
Malaki Obado drove oxen back in Kenya.
He is an exciting voice for backyard gardening.
May he soon have a backyard so big that he
has oxen!!!!! He is focused on beekeeping and raising
Talapia now, a fish you can grow at home.
Malaki Obado will be part of our Basics of Homesteading,
10 AM-11:15 AM Saturday April 24, 2010. Maps will
be available at registration. He lives in a small house
off 54th Street not far from the New Roots Community Garden.
He grows much of his greens and fresh food in his backyard.
He is part of the Urban Homestead revolution. His neighbor
two doors down is William Payton who is now a gardener!
Gardening is catching!!!
Malaki Obado will be part of Basics of Urban Homesteading
Workshop, 10- 11:15 AM, April 24,
at 2010 Cultivating Food Justice Conference
Malaki Obado, who back home in Kenya
drove Oxen, will be part of The Basics of Urban Homestreading
Workshop, 10-11:15 AM, April 24, 2010,
at the 2010 Cultiivating Food Justice Conference.
The workshop is free, as is more than 30 other
workshops taught by some of San Diego's on the ground
food growing and sustainability teachers.
Obado will join Carolyn Chase, founder of the San Diego EarthFair,
Bill Tall, founder of City Farmers Nursery, and Leslie Goldman,
co-founder of the Enchanted Garden Intentional Community,
is the one hour and fifteen minute power packed session
aimed to get San Diegan's excited about growing some of their
food right where they live.
Obado's very own backyard provides most of his produce.
He lives near 54th street a few miles south of the New Roots
Community Garden, where wife Amy Lint spends a lot of time
managing the International Rescue Corps (IRC) project.
Many people for Somalia and other African nations farm
that land. Obado, is the master of his own backyard garden,
where based beds celebrate a daily harvest of locally grown
organic foods.
A recent graduate from his corporate IT job, Obado
announced at the California Small Farm Conference, a few months
ago, that he was stepping out to earn his livelihood
doing beekeeping, as well as teaching others how to
raise Talapia, a fish that you can buy at nearly
City Farmers Nursery. Talapia grow to eating size
within seven months or less.
As for driving oxen, that dream may be realized when
he and his family return to Kenya in a number of years.
For now, he is one of the many San Diego teachers
who will be inspiring San Diegans to grow their own food,
one of many topics at the free two day conference.
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