Love seeing (and reading) the story of the Dervaes Family.

The family of four lives on $30,000 a year and grows the vast majority of their food on 1/5th of an acre outside L.A.

“Growing your own food is recession-proof,” said Dervaes. “You don’t have to worry about the prices. When you depend on other people, you become powerless. You get a pink slip. Now what do you do? You know, where are you going to get a job? You get high gas prices and you can’t afford it, what do you do now? So we figured this was the answer, just to see how much we could do ourselves.”

Here’s an older story from ABC News about the family:

You can read the full story at ABCNews.com

You can also find out more at www.dervaesgardens.com and www.pathtofreedom.com.

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(Photo (C) 2007 Pathtofreedom.com – used by permission)

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