Urban Homestead
Preserving a homegrown life since 1985
From our garden and kitchen to your table, we grow and craft homegrown and homemade products from our homestead to yours.
By partnering with local organic farms and food artisans we provide an easy and affordable way to eat more regeneratively by reducing your “food print.”
Apron Strings Community Bake Shop
Apron Strings Community Bake Shop is a Pasadena based cottage food business specializing in naturally leavened breads and home-baked cookies. Karen Hirsch’s home-baked breads and treats are inspired by the generations of grandmothers who always seemed to have something delicious and wholesome baking in the oven.
Beyond the Olive
Beyond the Olive is recognized as a premier reliable source for quality California Extra Virgin Olive Oils, vinegar and other quality products. With A Gold Medal at New York International Olive Oil Competition, the only North American Olive Oil to win a medal at Toronto’s International Olive Oil Competition, 6 consecutive wins as Best Specialty Food Store, four medals at the Los Angeles International Olive Oil Competition and being named "One of the 10 best places in the World to buy EVOO", customers have grown to love and trust this local (Pasadena) family business, founded in 2009.
Native Roots Soap
Native Roots is an indigenous run company that produces high end soaps, lotions, Beard butter, and balms. Using quality butters, oils, essential oils, clays, salts, Tussah Silk, raw grains and other plant materials help create Native Roots stamp on nurturing and loving your skin.
Food Alchemy
Alkalizing, detoxing and delicious organic coffee. Grown in the most pristine environment on the planet, our coffee beans are nutrient dense and offer the body abundant health benefits.
Grist & Toll
At Grist & Toll, a Pasadena based mill produces all of our flour by a process known as whole grain, stone milling. That means we grind the wheat or grain with the whole berry intact.
King & King Ranch
In 1913, Chalmers and Elizabeth King purchased a small piece of agricultural land in the Santa Clara valley. To this day King and King Ranch is run by 3rd & 4th generation Kings.
Today, 8 varieties of avocados, over 20 varieties of citrus, plus pomegranates, persimmons, plums, herbs, and loads of other rare and exotic culinary delights are grown!
Bloom Ranch
We are a permaculture adventure in growing nutrient dense food sustainably, on a historic homestead farm.
Ave 33 Farms
Avenue 33 Farm is an urban farm in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. It's run by Ali Greer and Eric Tomassini. We started the farm in 2018 on 1.2 acres focusing on building soil through regenerative farming practices.
Alma Backyard Farms
In 2017, Alma Backyard Farms installed its largest urban farm on an old softball field on the property of a church and school in Compton. This space started as a 1/4 acre and allowed for a three-fold increase in ALMA's capacity to grow food and impact community.
In 2019, ALMA expanded the farm to ½ acre. This site acts as Alma’s hub for its programs. With a larger urban farm site, ALMA is now poised to grow more food and create more opportunities for formerly incarcerated people, at-risk children and youth, and food insecure families.
Uncle Sky’s Hot Sauce
Skylar's own creation, this oven-roasted sweet potato and chipotle hot sauce has a mild kick and a lot of flavor.
McGrath Family Farms
McGrath Family Farms is an organic vegetable farm, established in 1871 by and Irish immigrant named Dominick. Of the 300 acres on the ranch, Philip (Farmer Phil) grows an extensive array of seasonal vegetables. Year round vegetables grow on 24 acres with an additional 4 acres of strawberries and 17 acres of lemons. McGrath Farms is located in Camarillo, CA just off Hwy101 and Central Avenue.
Farmer in the Dale
Located in Desert Hot Springs, California, “Farmer Dale” offers quality, organic dates.
Arlington Gardens
Arlington Garden is a three-acre public garden in the city of Pasadena. It was founded in 2005 to provide an urban sanctuary that is not only friendly to people and pets, but also a refuge for native fauna such as birds, bees and butterflies.
JF Organic Farms
JF Organic Farms is a family owned and operated business that has been cultivating savory since 1997. JF Organic Farms, Inc is considered to be at the cutting edge of organic farming and is currently certified organic under CCOF.